Hi,
I'm looking for Sarah Walsh. She was sent to New South Wales, Australia 1837 for stealing boots. Sarah was born around 1818 . Her parents were James Walsh and Anne King married around 1811. I can't find Sarah or siblings in Dublin. Can anyone help me please. Regards Cheryl Stevens, Sydney, Australia.
Do you know what denomination your Walsh family were ?
'Dublin' can refer to the city, suburbs or county and there are quite a few parishes which do not have records going back as far as the 1810s.
Records for most of the Catholic and Church of Ireland Dublin city parishes, plus a few Catholic parishes in South Co. Dublin are available on the free IrishGenealogy website, I didn't see any promising matches. Her baptism would be a little more difficult to search for if this Walsh family were Church of Ireland or some other Protestant denomination as baptisms for these did not usually include mother's maiden surname.
I was unable to find any matches on a search between 1800 and abt 1840 for Catholic baptisms in Dublin city & County where the family surname was Walsh/Welsh etc and mother's surname King.
I found a marriage of a James Walsh & Ann King at the St. Mary's, Pro-Cathedral, Marlborough Street, Dublin on the 14 November 1811.
see : here (about half way down the right hand page - NLI register images), and here (IrishGenealogy.ie transcript & image)
It's possible that any children they had were recorded with father's name and just mother's firstname, making them more difficult to spot definite matches for the family in searches. The St. Mary's/Pro-Cathedral records are included on the IrishGenealogy website.
Thank you so much for your help. At least I do have a photo of Sarah's parents taken in Dublin around 1860 and photo of Sarah here in Australia. She was a seamstress and married William Garlick ( also a convict) in Penrith NSW 1840. It would be wonderful to find siblings but a real long shot. Thanks again Cheryl PS If you hear of anyone trying to trace this family, I am happy to supply photos etc.
I forgot to say that they were Roman Catholic. I feel it was Dublin City. Thanks again.
I found that photo on several public trees on Ancestry - it looks a little later than 1860 to me. The Photographer A. & C. Taylor opened at that Stephen's Green address sometime between 1877 and 1879.
Oh thank you, that is good to know. I was about to look for the Photographer. Sarah died in 1899 so she would have been around to receive the photo. I have been looking at census records but very difficult to find. There is one birth a Christopher Walsh with one of the sponsors being a King. There are no Christopher's down the line in Australia.Sarah was my paternal GG Grandmother. I was reading through her convict record and it states she was Roman Catholic and from Dublin City.
Thanks again for taking the time to help me.
Kind regards
Cheryl
My Convict Ancestors
William Garlick:
William was my Great Great Great Grandfather. He was born on 6th March 1814 in Wiltshire England. His parents were John Garlick 1785 - 1863 and Suzanna Heath 1784- 1861.
He was convicted of “highway robbery” with his brother Thomas and transported to Australia on the ship “Moffatt” which departed on 5th May 1836 and arrived on 31st August 1836 with 404 passengers onboard. He was 22 years old on arrival.
William was literate, Protestant, single, 5’4” tall, with a freckled complexion, brown hair, dark hazel eyes, a small scar on the right side of his under lip, and two small moles on his lower right arm. As a convict, William was listed as a miller.
On 9th December 1840 he sought and received permission to marry Sarah Walsh who was also a convict. William was 26 and Sarah was 22. They were married at Penrith NSW ON 21/12/1840.They had eleven children. Sarah Anne born 1859 was my Great Great Grandmother.
William got his Ticket of Leave 8/1/1840 and his Certificate of Freedom on 25/4/1853. He lived in the Parramatta region for some time and was the publican of the Rising Sun Hotel. He once conducted the Colless Water-mill on the Nepean, and afterwards had a nice home at St Mary’s.
William died at Penrith NSW on 6/1/1866. Sarah died at Orange, NSW on 26/11/1899
Sarah Walsh
Sarah was born in Dublin, Ireland on 9/9/1818 . Sarah was tried in Dublin City on 13/1/1837 and sentenced to 7 years for stealing a pair of boots. She was assigned Convict No, 37/431, indent No. 46, and was aged 19 when she arrived in Sydney, Colony of New South Wales, on the “Sir Charles Forbes” on 25 December 1837, having left Dublin in Ireland on the 11th August 1837. Sir Charles Forbes was a barque built at Aberdeen in 1824. Between 1825 and 1837 she made three voyages transporting convicts to Hobart and one convict voyage to Sydney.
Sarah could read but not write. She was Roman Catholic and single. Her native place was Dublin. Her trade or calling was children’s maid. Her offence was to steal a pair of boots and she was tried in Dublin City on 13th January 1837 and sentenced to 7 years. She had a former conviction of 15 months.
Sarah was 5’5½” (166cm) tall and had a ruddy, freckled complexion, sandy flaxen hair and grey eyes. She had lost a canine tooth, left side, upper jaw, had a wart on the upper left arm, two moles on the upper right arm, five dots on the back of or the right forefinger, a small wart inside the right thumb, eight dots on the back of the left hand, four dots on the back of the left forefinger and a perpendicular scar on the right side of the forehead.
As convicts, William was a miller and Sarah was a children’s maid. On 8/10/1840 William was granted a ticket of leave and allowed to remain in the district of Penrith. On 28/11/1840 William and Sarah applied for approval to marry. Sarah was still under bond and approval was granted 9/12/1840 subject to approval of Sarah’s assignee. They married 21/12/1840 in the Parish of Penrith, County Cumberland. A certificate of freedom was issued to William 25/4/1853. William could read and write and Sarah could read but not write. After their marriage they lived in Penrith and had 11 children: Susannah, born 1841, died 1925 John, born 1843, died 14/8/1925 George, born 1844, died 1921 Henry, born 1846, died 1878 William, born 1848, died 1928 Sarah, born 1850, died 1902 Isaac, born 1852, died1854 Isaac, born 1855, died 1936 Eliza, born 1857, died 1939 Emily, born 1859, died 1863 Robert, born 1861, died 1863
William and Sarah and their family moved from Penrith to Orange NSW in about 1874.Sarah died on the 26/11/1899, and was buried at Orange, NSW.
Their daughter, Sarah Anne Whiley (born Garlick) was my Great Great Grandmother. She lived all her life in the Orange, Millthorp area of NSW. The Whileys were founding fathers of the area, and Millthorp Cemetery is filled with historic graves of the family. Sarah and Charles were farmers. She was born and baptised in 1850. She married Charles Earnest Whiley, who was also born in 1850. They had six children including Emily Grace, who was my Great Grandmother. Sarah passed away in 1902 at the age of 52.
Emily Grace (Whiley) Walker was my Great Grandmother
Born 1875 Spring Hill NSW. Married Charles Walker. Died 1 August 1951. She was my father’s Grandmother. Emily had one daughter, Miriam who was my Grandmother. Emily mostly lived in Croydon, where her husband Charles Walker ran a corner store. When her husband died she supported herself as a seamstress, working from home. After her daughter’s marriage break up she helped support and raise her three grandchildren. She never spoke about her convict ancestry. She passed away in 1951, a year after I was born.
DEATHS: The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW) Thursday 2 August 1951 p 20
WALKER, Emily Grace.-August 1, 1951, at Western Suburbs Hospital, late of 23 Queen Street, Croydon, loving mother of Miriam, and loving nana of Dick, Jean (Mrs. A. Williams), and Bill, aged 75 years.
Bill was David William Norman, my father, born 8th March 1927 and 23 Queen Street Croydon was his childhood home.
