Convict Heritage
OUR FAMILIES CONVICT PAST
CONVICTS TRANSPORTED TO THE COLONY OF NSW ON SHIPS
'BLACKWELL' - 'FANNY' - 'ELIZABETH' - 'HERO'
Pierce & James Cantwell (Brothers)
Pierce; 4th great grandfather
James; 4th great grand uncle
of the grandchildren of Russell Albert James and Anthony Jon Dorhauer
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Pierce Cantwell
Pierce was born about 1813 and James Cantwell was born about July 1814. (He was baptised on 25th July 1814). Both were born in Tipperary Ireland.
Both brothers were tried in the Old Bailey, and on the 1st April 1835 they were convicted of manslaughter of Police Sergeant Feeny on 15th August 1834..
Pierce was given a Life sentence and his brother James was given seven years.
They were transported to New South Wales on the convict ship "Blackwell" which arrived in Sydney on 29th September 1835.
A "Ticket of Leave" was granted to Pierce on 11th December 1844.
On 14th December 1845 he was indicted for stealing 600 pounds of wool from Archibald Clunes Innes for whom he was a bullock driver, and sentenced to be worked in irons for two years at No. 3 stockade Newcastle NSW
His Ticket of Leave was cancelled on 4 February 1853 for being illegally out of the district.
He was given a "Conditional Pardon" on 5th December 1854. James was granted a "Ticket of Freedom" on 25th March 1840.
On the 21st April 1859 Pierce was granted a publican's license for the Crown and Anchor Inn at Swan Street Morpeth
He later was proprietor of the Royal Hotel.
The following is an extract from the Sydney Morning Herald dated 8th February 2004 under the heading "Morpeth things to see"
Slab Cottage
Just around the corner in Green Street is an old slab cottage dating back to the (sic) 1820s ( the cottage would not have been built until the 1840,s ) which has been restored and relocated to this site. Now housing Morpeth Pottery it was built by Pierce Cantwell who initially carted the sandstone from Fig Tree Hill into town. He later owned the Royal Hotel which is still standing.
Slab Cottage as it stands today at 2 Green Street Morpeth NSW
Built by Pierce Cantwell circa 1840's
Crown And Anchor Hotel Morpeth (demolished)
Royal Hotel as it was in 2004
Surnames & Descendancy Charts & Pedigree Charts researched can be found on this link
Author: Russell Albert James Dorhauer
To read documents relating to the the person or event click onto corresponding attachment at bottom of page
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Robert James Hancock
Robert James Hancock 1817-1887 was a soldier escorting convicts to Australia. He served in the 99th Regiment and then transferred to the 11th Regiment and finally joining the Mounted Police. He was the 5th Great Grandfather of the grandchildren of Russell Albert James & Anthony Jon Dorhauer
99Th Regiment
Wiltshire Regiment (Lanarkshire) First Detachment 99th Regiment of Foot came to Australia as a guard on the convict ship "North Briton" which was bringing convicts out to Tasmania in 1842. Second Detachment 99th Foot Regiment came to Australia as a guard on the convict ship "John Renwick" which was bringing convicts out to Tasmania in 1842.Third Detachment 99th Foot Regiment came to Australia as a guard on the convict ship "Kandahar" which was bringing convicts out to Tasmania in 1842. After serving sometime in the Parramatta area and also Port Phillip, they were sent to New Zealand to engage the Maoris. 1842 saw the 99th Regiment leave Chatham for Tasmania and arrived in Sydney 1843. The 99th was a very unpopular Regiment with the 11th Regiment being bought to Sydney to control the 99th. 1848 The 99th was stationed in Hobart and left Australia in 1856. Stationed at Hobart, Sydney, Norfolk Island, Victoria, Moreton Bay.
11th Regiment
North Devonshire The 1st/11th Regiment (North Devonshire) was garrisoned in the colony from 1845 to 1857. The 99th Regiment was very unpopular in Sydney. It was widely known for its rough and near mutinous behaviour. The 1st/11th Regiment was brought to Sydney from Van Dieman's Land to control the riotous 99th Regiment. The first division of the regiment containing headquarters and three companies, sailed from Chatham aboard the "Castle Eden" in July 1845. The remainder of the regiment followed in the "Ramilies" in August 1845 for Sydney. After service in Sydney they were transferred to Hobart Town, returning in 1846 to restore discipline in the unruly 99th Regiment. The 11th was a popular regiment returning to garrison Sydney in response to a public petition in 1848. The 11th occupied Victoria Barracks until they returned to England in 1857.
Above image is of the 58th Regiment
James Cantwell
James was given a ticket of leave 42/475 on 25th March 1840. His prisoner number was 35/2320
The Conditional Pardon for Pierce can be viewed in the attachments section at the bottom of this page.
He is listed in the Catholic Parish Register 1655-1915 as being born in Ballingarry which is only a short distance from Killenaule. Residence was "Crougharmatin", Diocese "Cashel & Emly". Winesses at his baptism were Michael Butler and Judith Noulan ?
SOURCE: The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River Advertiser, Sydney Morning Herald.
and Irish Baptism records
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Eleanor Hall
5th great grandmother of the grandchildren of Russell Albert James & Anthony Jon Dorhauer
Eleanor Hall, (nee Jobling) was born on 20th June 1807 at Durham England.
On the 18th October 1830 she was tried at the Durham Quarter Sessions and convicted of Larceny, she was sentenced to two months hard labour detention.
On 4th April 1832 she was convicted at Newcastle Upon Tyne Quarter Sessions for "Pledging" ( Pawning) and sentenced to seven years transportation to New South Wales.
She sailed aboard the convict ship "Fanny" on the 29th July 1832 and arrived in Sydney on 2nd February 1833. She was seven months pregnant and gave birth during the voyage to her son John Hall on 15th September 1832.
.The medical journal of the ship's Surgeon, James Logan records details of her fragile health, she was not expected to live through the voyage.
"Folios 16-18 case No.15 Eleanor Hall, age 25, convict, taken ill off the Cape; sick or hurt, Scorbutus; put on sick list 15th October 1832, discharged 6th November 1832, cured, she was expected to expire before the ship came to anchor at Simon's Bay.
The ships Company was sent ashore for some vegetables and other refreshments. This patient ate but very little, from this date 25 October she and other Scorbutic patients recovered and at the end of seven or eight days there was no one on the sick list."
In 1837 she was assigned to William Lawson of Bathurst
A Ticket of Leave 38/626 was granted to her on 8th April 1838 and then cancelled on 31st July 1838 for disorderly conduct
She was given a Certificate of Freedom No.42/0259 on 18th February 1842
Eleanor died on 9th February 1850 and according to news reports in the Sydney Morning Herald, her death was possibly due to an over indulgence of alcohol
SOURCE: National Archives, Kew, England
Further details regarding Eleanor's life can be found on the following site: http://members.iinet.net.au/~perthdps/convicts/con86.htm
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William Armstrong
5th great grandfather of the grandchildren of Russell Albert James & Anthony Jon Dorhauer
William Armstrong was a shoemaker born in Dublin about 1794. He was convicted of stealing shoes in the Dublin City Sessions in 1834 and sentenced to "Life" imprisonment and transportation to New South Wales.
He arrived on the convict ship "Hero" at Port Jackson ,Sydney on 31st August 1835.
At the time of his trial he was married with three children, two males and one female, he would never see them again.
In 1843 he was indicted for killing Richard Cawthorne at Bathurst New South Wales and was given a lenient sentence of 24 hours in Bathurst Goal for killing in self defence.
William was granted a "Ticket of Leave" No. 45/2120 and he had four children with female convict Eleanor Hall nee Jobling (mentioned Above) but was not given permission to marry her until 1844. They eventually married in 1845.
On the 20th December 1849 it is believed that William was possibly murdered by another person with whom he and his wife had been drinking.
Newspaper reports of the incident were reported in the Sydney Morning Herald on 21st December 1849
SOURCE: NSW State Records and Sydney Morning Herald newspaper reports
Further details regarding william's life can be found on the following site by John Armstrong: http://members.iinet.net.au/~perthdps/convicts/con86.htm
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Isaac Moore-snr.
There is no blood relationship to the Dorhauer family. The relationship is by the marriage between Isaac's granddaughter, Marcella Mervyn Moore to Heinrich and Margaretha Dorhauer's eldest son, Henry Dorhauer in 1903.
Isaac Moore was born about 1788 in Richmond, Surrey, England.
He was tried in the Old Bailey in 1815 for feloniously stealing 27 bushells of coal He was sentenced to seven years transportation to New South Wales and arrived in Sydney on the convict ship" Elizabeth" in 1816