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Transportation
Bryan Reilly was transported on the Boddingtons, departing 15th Feb 1793 and arriving 7th Aug 1793 with 129 passengers.
The Boddingtons was Built in 1781. She departed Cork Ireland on 15 February 1793 bound for New South Wales.
Boddingtons (generic)References
| Primary Source | NSW Gov Records. Irish Convicts. |
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Convict Notes
Irish Convict Database, by Peter Mayberry. Bryan or Berny Reilly, age on arrival, 21, per Boddingtons, 1793, Tried at Carrick on Shannon Leitrim Co, 1792, Life sentence, Irish rebel - Defender. DOB, 1772. Police constable chief. Defender colonial sentences Nsw 1804 Castle Hill Revolt, then sent to Coal River. Spouse: Lived 1798 with Joanna Sullivan alias Kane or Carney or Cain (d 1846). References: 1801 Muster. 1811 Muster. 1811 Muster 1814 Muster. Silver – Vinegar Hill. Whitaker: Unfinished Revolution. P 104-105; 123; 171. Hall – A nimble fingered Tribe, p 221-222. Hall – Of Infamous Character, p 168 – 172. --------------------------------------------------------------- Defenders. The Defenders were a Catholic secret society, formed originally in Armagh, to take action against the Protestant Peep o’ Day Boys. The Peep o’ Day boys set out on night raids against Catholics with the purpose of confiscating arms, which Catholics, under law, were not allowed to hold. By the 1790s they had set up secret lodges, with oaths of allegiance, sided with the United Irishmen in the 1798 rebellion, and by the 1900’s, developed into the Ribbonmen movement.
Bryan Riley (Emancipist) was granted land at Toongabbie in December 1799. On the 14 March 1804, he took part in Irish Rebellion at Castle Hill and was sentenced to receive as many lashes as he could stand without his life being endangered and exile to the Coal River chain gang." (Coal River was the original name for Newcastle.
Born - Carrick on Shannon Leitrim County Ireland. Occupation - Chief police constable - Defender. Colonial sentences NSW - 1804 Castle Hill Revolt then sent to Coal River.