Foley (Samuel Branch)

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NameFoley (Samuel Branch)DescriptionSamuel Foley was born c.1760 in Birmingham. He was transported on board the 'HMS Glatton' after being convicted in 1801 at the Worcester Assizes, of stealing a ewe sheep of the price of 20 shillings from Mr. E. Grainger of Dudley.

Samuel was originally sentenced to death however this was later commuted to life. He was described as 41 years old, 5’6, his occupation was a blacksmith, his complexion dark sallow, hair brown, and eyes hazel.

Ten years later in 1813, he married Mary Ann Mason at St John’s Parramatta when she was 21 years old.

Mary Ann was also a convict, sentenced to seven years at the Surrey Assizes in 1811 for stealing. She was transported on ‘Minstrel’ and arrived 1812. Mary Ann was presumably sent to the Parramatta Female Factory. Neither Samuel nor Mary could read or write and signed their marriage certificate with a cross.

Samuel and Mary had fifteen children;

Martha b.1814 Parramatta (married Patrick Geraghty)

Thomas b.1817 Sydney (married Mary McKenna)

Elizabeth (Betsy) b. 1819

Sarah b.1821 Campbelltown (married Francis McQuilty and George Walker)

James b.1824 Campbelltown (married Sarah Ryan)

John b.1826 Shellharbour

Samuel b.1831 Shellharbour (married Jane Ahern)

Ann b.1833 Shellharbour (married George Hollands)

Edward b.1835 Shellharbour

Elizabeth b.1839 Shellharbour (married James Bennett)

Samuel was granted a Ticket of Leave and received his Conditional Pardon 31 January 1818 after serving 17 years of his sentence and petitioning the Governor ‘That for seventeen years he has been in the Colony he has conducted himself with strictest propriety working for the greater part of the time as a Blacksmith and for the last three years he has been free on a Ticket of Leave’.

Samuel and Mary Ann’s eldest daughter Martha married Patrick Geraghty, also a convict, sentenced to life in the colony for robbery along with his brother James.

Samuel died at Stoney Creek, Jamberoo in 1858.

His death certificate states that he was 98 years old and according to family histories he was an active farmer as late as 1841.

External LinkDeath Samuel Foley 1858A Remarkable Life -Marth Geraghty 1905Death Thomas Foley 1906Mrs Walker Sen 1910A Centenarian's Death - Sarah Walker 1910Death Elizabeth Bennett Myrtle Creek 1905

Person

Seymour, Thomas

Farragher, Murtagh (Murty)

Document

Indenture - James Foley

Object

Indenture - James Foley

Family

Geraghty

View over Stoney Creek, from Ebenezer Russell's homestead property, 2003.

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CollectionFamiliesFamilyGeraghtyLocalityCroomPersonFarragher, Murtagh (Murty)PlaceStoney Creek

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Foley (Samuel Branch)