Surname:
Macnamara (Frank the Poet)
Source:
Launceston Examiner
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The Victoria Museum and Art Gallery - The loan exhibits have been added to by Mr Wm. Illingworth sending a portrait of Paganini, the famous Italian violinist, and a pair of beautiful white hawks in cases; and Mr Cheesman, Wellington-street, sends a specimen of pen and ink drawing and writing done by Frank the Poet formerly a well known local character
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Macnamara (Frank the Poet)
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Capture of Bushrangers. About ten o'clock, on the night of the 30thultimo, Sergt. Michael Doyle, and two troopers of the Mounted Police, fell in with a party of five armed bushrangers, at the foot of Razor-back, and succeeded in apprehending them, The bushrangers are the same parties who escaped from the constables on the 25th ultimo, on the road between Berrima and Campbell-town. The police found in their possession the carbines which they took from the constables at the time of escape. They are now safely lodged in the gaol at Campbelltown. Their names are —Francis McNamara, per Eliza; John Jones, per Lady Macnaughton ; Edward Allen, per Asia ; William Thomson, per do ;William Eastwood, per Patriot. The bravery and indefatigable zeal which Sergeant Doyle has at all times evinced in his pursuit of, and encounters with, bushrangers, strongly entitle him, not only to pecuniary remuneration from Government, but, in our opinion, to the con-sideration of his Commanding Officer, Major Nunn, Doyle has, for a number of years, been the terror of the Southern bushrangers, and perhaps there is not another in the colony, who is better acquainted with the fastnesses to which, on being hotly pursued, these villains retire. He has scarcely ever been foiled in his pursuit of the bushrangers on his skirmishes with them, and his scent is said to be most unerring. We are astonished that the settlers of the southern counties do not confer some public mark of their approbation upon Doyle, whose perseverance and activity cannot but be well known to them
Surname:
Macnamara (Frank the Poet)
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CAMPBELLTOWN. On Thursday the 26th instant, as ten prisoners on their route from Berrima to Picton under warrants to be forwarded to Sydney for various charges, five of them effected their escape from the two constables in charge by securing them and depriving them of their arms, and afterwards handcuffed them to a tree, where they remained a short time, the other five prisoners gave themselves up to the proper authorities. The escape of those five ruffians has caused a great deal of excitement in this district, so much so, that the police have been on the look out for them on all the roads leading to the capital. But fortunately for the peace of this and the adjacent districts, Sergeant Doyle, formerly of Her Majesty's 17th Regt, and two Troopers of the Mounted Police, who passed through here on Sunday, succeeded in capturing them at the bottom of Razorback near Cawdor, on this morning atone o'clock a m, having with them at the time, the arms taken from the constables. They are now safely lodged in Campbelltown jail. I have not heard the whole of the particulars connected with their capture but from what I can learn Sergeant Doyle and his party merit a great deal of credit. The whole of the five prisoners have acknowledged them- selves to be prisoners illegally at large. I have just learned the following particulars off the capture of these men :—Last night, about ten o'clock, Serjeant Michael Doyle, and Troopers Willmott and Neale, fell in with them and captured them, although they had the constables' arms. Their names are Francis Macnamara per Eliza, J. Jones per Lady Feversham, Edwin Allen per Asia, William Eastwood per Patriot, and William Thompson per Asia. Of course the residents in this district are highly gratified that this gang of scoundrels have been captured before they had committed any depredations. Doyle is a very meritorious officer and has always been very successful in the pursuit of these bushrangers
Surname:
MacNamara (Frank the Poet)
First Name:
Francis Razorback
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Poems included 'A Petition from the Australian Agricultural Company's Flocks at Peel's River on Behalf of the Irish Bard' and 'For the Company Under Ground' The Convict's Tour of Hell', The Cyprus Brig' and 'Moreton Bay'
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Granted Ticket of Leave
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Soldier assigned to George Forbes
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Assigned to George Forbes
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Granted Ticket of Leave
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Granted Ticket of Leave
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Obtained ticket of leave
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Ploughman assigned to Australian Agricultural company
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Assigned to Australian Agricultural Company
Source:
In the Service of the Company. Letters of Sir Edward Parry, VolumeII June 1832 - March 1834 Letter 981
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Convicted at Co. Mayo and sentenced to 7 years transportation in March 1832. Request that he be re-assigned from the A.A. Company to James Edward Ebsworth
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Labourer assigned to Australian Agricultural company
Source:
Invermein Court of Petty Sessions. Deposition Books 1833 -1834 (Ancestry)
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Patrick McKittrick per ship Eliza, assigned to Col. Dumaresq, charged with neglect of duty....John Marra states - I am sheep overseer to Col. Dumaresq. The prisoner is employed as a watchman over two flocks of sheep and he neglects his cows and calve by letting the cows go away and not bringing them back for a day and a night on Wednesday morning. On my going to the station the shepherd was cutting the ropes to let the calves go as they were starving. I asked the prisoner how he did not keep his cows at home - he told me he had no shoes to follow them and I asked him if he could not keep them near the hut. He told me he wanted a sleep every day. I told him if he did not get them home that day I should take them away. On Thursday morning I went up the cattle run to see if the calves went to the cows. I then brought the cows and calves home to the farm and in coming by the station he was standing with two men who were making hurdles. He asked me if I was going to take the cows home. I told him as he could not attend to them I should take them home when he became very insolent and that he has never cut a stake for his folds since he went to the station and whenever I speak to him he gives me abuse....The prisoner Patrick McKittrick, states in his defence that he does not know the run and that he had no shoes to follow them. The Bench find the prisoner guilty and sentence him to receive thirty six lashes
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Obtained ticket of leave
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Aged 36. Assigned to John Burke
Surname:
McNamara (MacNamara)
Source:
State Archives NSW. Bound Indents. Microfiche 683. Ancestry
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Age 21. Reads and writes. Protestatnt. Single. Miner from Wicklow. Tried in Kilkenny 15 January 1832 and sentenced to 7 years transportation for stealing plaid. Colonial sentence of transportation for life received 8 July 1842 reduced to 7 years in 1844 .
Surname:
McNamara (Macnamara) (Frank The Poet)
Place:
Stroud and Peel River
Source:
Australian Dictionary of Biography Online
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Poet. Assigned to Australian Agricultural Company
Surname:
McNamara (Macnamara) (Frank The Poet)
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Aged 28. Assigned to the Hulk Phoenix
