CONNELLY convicts to Australia

Hi Lyn

I am also chasing the same family and have been trying to contact you for some time.

I believe these 2 boys had a brother called Michael who was given a paid passage for his family in 1845 and they settled in the Maitland area and lived and died in  those surrounds.

I did get information of this person and they came from Ennis Ireland. So I am now trying to see if both thses boys were of the same family. 

I also believe that Timothys son Michael is my Great Grandfather and is one and the same "Goobang Mick Coneley" who was the demise of Ben Hall.

I was born and raised in Cobar, Forbes, Parkes Bathurst area and also have a lot of family information

It would be good to exchange emails with you.

Regards Unita Connelly

Hi Unita

I was very  interested in your message

I am not sure we have the same family. Mathew used the name Michael if it wasn't official and then he was Mathew. Timothy, I believe died in Carcoar but I could have the wrong one. Mathew/Michael is buried at McCarthy's Cemetery Cranebrook. He married another convict Ellen Dawson alias Doyle and after his death she and most of her boys moved north and eventually settled in Mackay. I have accounted for all his children except the eldest, Michael born 1838.

 

As far as I can figure Timothy married Mary McNamara nee Egan also a convict. They had a daughter Margaret 1827 and  I am in contact with a dscendant and I think they had a son Michael 1830. I think Timothy was a ploughman for Mr Hawkins and later a hutkeeper and died in 1861 in Carcoar. Don't know what happened to Mary but it was a pretty tumultuous relationship from what I have found in the records. Mary had 3 daughters from her previous marriage to a soldier.

There is also another researcher who has a James Connelly that might fit somewhere in Mathew's family but we can't really find the connection except his mother was Ellen Dawson.

Is this fitting with what you know about your family?

 

regards

 

Lyn