Convict Register Details
Midwest WA Heritage Convict Register Details
Convict Registry ID:1011
| SURNAME | KEARNEY |
|---|---|
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas |
| OTHER NAME | alias GIBBON, GIBLIN and McDEAN |
| CONVICT NO | 5284 |
| BIRTH/DEATH | 1837 – 1872 Victoria District |
| BRITISH DATA | alias GIBBON, GIBLIN and McDEAN; unmarr, chain maker, illit, RC; behaviour in separate confinement - bad, at public works - very good, on voyage - indifferent |
| PRE CONVICTION | Durham, 01.05.1851 aged 13 years, with others, stealing 2 pairs of trousers, 3m (The Newcastle Courant, 04 Jul 1851); twice summarily convicted |
| CONVICTION | Durham 15.01.1857 felony, prev conv, 6yrs |
| PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | 5ft 4½ins, brown hair, hazel eyes, oval visage, fresh complexion, middling stout, earrings, T O back of left hand |
| ARRIVAL | Fremantle – Edwin Fox 21.11.1858 from Portland Prison |
| CERTIFICATES | TL13.06.1860 Perth, CP31.12.1861 |
| LOCATION/ EMPLOYMENT | 21.12.1858 North Fremantle; 21.06.1859 CE; 15.07.1859 North Fremantle; ^worked for Burges brothers at ‘Tipperary’ York & Irwin District, 1860s independent farmer with approx 100 acres, ^1865 - 1871 employed 3 TL men as lab & farm lab |
| FAMILY | Marr – Catherine MORRISSEY, (1840 Ireland - 1882 Geraldton; d/o John, sister of Patrick, niece of Michael, arr 20.10.1859 per West Australian) 31.10.1864 Mt Erin
Children: Mary Ann KEARNEY: b.1866; Thomas KEARNEY: b.1869; Honora Ellen Celia KEARNEY: b.1873, marr Seymour Boyce MEARES 1895 Gullaway; John Richard KEARNEY: 1876 - Mar 1880 (lost in bush at Mr Morrisey’s ‘Badja’ Farm; the search lasted several days - believed by his family to have been taken and eaten by aborigines) *1880, p57 (The Inquirer, 21 Apr 1880); Mary Ann KEARNEY: d.02.03.1937 Nimba, Liberia |
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| COMMENTS | orphaned children Mary Ann & Thomas were reared by Michael & Jane Morrissey at Gulwa and Honora & John reared by Patrick & Mary Ann Morrissey of Badja |
| REFERENCES | SROWA – Convict Register Acc 1156 R8, R21B; Estimates and Convict Lists Acc 128/32; ^Erickson, R: Bicentennial Dictionary of Western Australians pre1829 – 1888, p1698 |
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