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Item: 169763
Surname: Cunningham
First Name: John
Ship: Cawdry 1826
Date: 1826
Place: -
Source: AO NSW Convict Indent Fiche No. 660
Details: Age 26. Native place Armagh. Occupation soldier. Tried at Bombay and sentenced to transportation for life for murder. Assigned to William Dun at Paterson on arrival


 
Item: 181913
Surname: Gallaghar (Gallagher)
First Name: Michael
Ship: Cawdry 1826
Date: 7 June 1826
Place: Newcastle
Source: NSW Courts Magistrates, Newcastle Police Court: 1823-1825, 1826-1827 (Ancestry)
Details: Michael Gallaghar, per ship Cawdry, in government service, charged with improperly removing coals from the wharf. George Ireland, Buffs, states - I was sentry yesterday at the wharf. The prisoner asked me if it was allowed to take a few coals for the prisoners barracks. I told him no. He went away and shortly after returned and had gathered some coals together to take away when I detected him. The prisoner states - I did not know there was anything wrong in my taking a few coals to warm myself. Michael Gallaghar sentenced to the gaol gang for three weeks.


 
Item: 182161
Surname: Gallaghar (Gallagher)
First Name: Michael
Ship: Cawdry 1826
Date: 23 October 1826
Place: Newcastle
Source: NSW Courts Magistrates, Newcastle Police Court: 1823-1825, 1826-1827 (Ancestry)
Details: Michael Gallaghar per ship Cawdry, in government service, charged with neglect of duty. Patrick Tully, signal man, states - The beacon light on the Hill was nearly extinguished last night at about ten o clock. It was the prisoner s duty to attend the fire at that hour. The fire had been bad during the evening and I reprimanded him for allowing it to be so. When I discovered that the fire was out at the time I have just mentioned, I gave him in charge of Mr. Muir. The fire is frequently bad in consequence of the prisoners neglect. The prisoner in his defence states - that he used every means to make the fire burn, but could not on account of the bad quality of the coals and the absence of wind. Sentenced to the gaol gang for 3 months


 
Item: 181915
Surname: Gallagher (Gallaghar)
First Name: Michael
Ship: Cawdry 1826
Date: 1826
Place: -
Source: Convict Indents. State Archives NSW. Microfiche 627. (Ancestry)
Details: Native place Co. Leitrim. Age 41. Occupation labourer and soldier. Tried Madras 9 July 1824 and sentenced to transportation for life. Assigned to John Thorpe at Sydney on arrival. Lost in the bush and appeared to have perished from the cold on the night of 24 May 1840.


 
Item: 48778
Surname: Mills
First Name: William
Ship: Cawdry 1826
Date: 2 December 1838
Place: Miatland
Source: Maitland Burial Register p 120
Details: William Mills, free by servitude, a pauper. Died aged 53. Buried 2 December 1838


 
Item: 195468
Surname: Mills
First Name: William
Ship: Cawdry 1826
Date: April 1826
Place: Sydney
Source: Convict Indents. State Archives NSW; Series: NRS 12188; Item: [4/4011]; Microfiche: 660
Details: William Mills age 38. Soldier and servant from Leicestershire. Tried at Bombay. Sentenced to 14 years transportation for buglary. Assigned to Alexander McDougall at Baulkham Hills on arrival


 
Item: 169248
Surname: Muirhead
First Name: William
Ship: Cawdry 1826
Date: -
Place: -
Source: Ancestry.com. New South Wales, Australia, Convict Indents, 1788-1842
Details: Age 25. Soldier and errand boy from Stirling. Sentenced to transportation for life in Bombay for murder. Assigned to Thomas Aspinall in Sydney on arrival


 
Item: 195469
Surname: Muirhead
First Name: William
Ship: Cawdry 1826
Date: 27 January 1837
Place: -
Source: The Sydney Monitor
Details: Examination of William Muirhead before the Executive Council, 16th December, 1836. I was with Major Mitchell during the late expedition; I was employed as bullock-driver, and occasionally acted as a serjeant to drill the men; I have been a soldier; I remember the 27th May when there was a fight between the party and the blacks; I was with the party under Major Mitchell on that occasion; after starting that morning the natives came upon our rear; the Major ordered Burnett to take one half of the party to meet the natives and the Major remained with the rest of the party; after Burnett went to meet the natives I lost sight of them when they entered the scrub; the next thing I saw was the natives taking to the river; I had heard shots before this; I saw the natives swimming across the river and several of Burnett s party firing upon them; on my arriving at the edge of the river I fired several shots, as did most of the party with us; I think that some of the blacks must have been killed; they were swimming in the water; and no man could say whether they were wounded or not; the river was better than a hundred yards broad where the blacks took to it; by the appearance there must have been nearly a hundred blacks crossing the river; there might have been one or two shots fired after they arrived on the opposite bank; I can form no opinion as to the number of shots fired at the blacks altogether; when we arrived at the brink of the river we found Burnett s party there. I had received no orders to fire; upon arriving at the brink of the river we commenced firing; the other party under Burnett had been firing before; the firing lasted about fifteen minutes after we came up; it might not be so long as that; I had observed the natives for two days before the fight; they seemed to be very troublesome, hanging and harassing upon the rear of the party; I did not see any spears thrown at the party, but they put themselves into threatening attitudes, particularly the evening before the conflict took place; the Major left the banks of the river the second night before, and passed a night in the scrub for the purpose of avoiding them; the men were under an apprehension that the natives would attack them; they were led to expect this from what Piper the native had informed some them. Cross-examined by Major Mitchell - I have had experience of the mode of attack adopted by the natives, having accompanied Major Mitchell on two former expeditions; I was present when the bones of Mr. Finch s men were found, I believe in the year 1831; the body of one was completely naked; they had received wounds on the back parts of their heads; my opinion is that the men were in bed asleep when they were attacked; during the expedition last year, there were two spears thrown at me; I saw some natives crossing the river a little higher up than where I was; I was extricating a bullock from the river; I did not see the men who threw the spears at me; the spears struck a tree near where I was standing; they accidentally escaped me from my having stooped down under the bank, when employed in disentangling the bullock; I saw some of the same men, whom I had seen then, on the present occasion; there was one confessed to have see us before, and to have slaughtered a bullock we left behind; I saw one of the gins with the bullock s teeth in her bag; we passed one night in the presence of these native previous to the re encounter; I saw the natives early on the following morning; they appeared troublesome, and had been the night previous; they were burning bushes; I always understood that to mean, with the natives, a signal for war; I saw an old man near the camp setting fire to bushes; I saw him run off suddenly; I do not know what made him run away; I was one of the party the same morning sent out to order them off; the orders that Major Mitchell delivered to me were to go about two hundred yards distant from the camp to where a party of the natives were assembled, and order them off; they were upon one side of the camp; we were told not to fire; they fell back when they saw us approaching, and we returned to the camp according to the orders the Major gave me; I was not on watch that night but had not taken my clothes off; the men could not have continued for any number of nights, to have watched and taken care of the bullocks, as they were obliged that night from the troublesome conduct of the natives; we could not have had our breakfast and packed up uninterrupted, unless we had gone out and made them retire, as ordered by the Major; I saw them attempt to take some tomahawks away from the tent the night before; I have been on service as a soldier; from what I know of service, I think we could not have gone on many days longer with the natives, in the way they had been conducting themselves toward us, without danger; I can explain how the danger would have arisen; men obliged to go and look after the cattle, would have been sure to have been fallen upon by them; after what took place on the 27th, they did not harass us; we felt after this transaction, much greater security than ever we had done before, in travelling in the interior; I do not consider that an offence was given by our party to cause the natives to follow us; on the former occasion I saw presents given to the same tribe


 
Item: 195470
Surname: Muirhead
First Name: William
Ship: Cawdry 1826
Date: 16 May 1838
Place: -
Source: Register of Conditional and Absolute Pardons
Details: William Muirhead, soldier and labourer from Stirling. Tried at Calcutta 1824. Sentenced to transportation for life for murder. granted an Absolute Pardon


 
Item: 195471
Surname: Muirhead
First Name: William
Ship: Cawdry 1826
Date: 21 November 1835
Place: -
Source: Convict Pardons. NSW. Class: HO 10; Piece: 31
Details: William Muirhead granted a Pardon for Services performed in the Interior in an Exploring Expedition under Major Mitchell, Surveyor General of the Colony


 
Item: 64123
Surname: Newton
First Name: John
Ship: Cawdry
Date: 1827 18 April
Place: Port Stephens
Source: SG
Details: Appointed honorary constable



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