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Nepean Times (Penrith, NSW : 1882 - 1962), Saturday 11 November 1882, page 2
TUESDAY.
Before Messrs. J. D.Single, J. Thomas, J, K. Lethbridge, and Dr, Duncan, J.s'P.
Martin Gilligan was charged with failing to register a dog. The Sergeant explained that defendant had registered the dog since the issue of the summons and the case was withdrawn.
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Nepean Times (Penrith, NSW : 1882 - 1962), Saturday 14 April 1883, page 2
PENRITH POLICE COURT.
TUESDAY, APRIL 10.
Before Messrs. Duncan and Lethbridge, J.s'P.
Martin Gilligan v. Llewelyn Lewis. No appearance of plaintiff. Case struck out.
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Nepean Times (Penrith, NSW : 1882 - 1962), Saturday 16 October 1886, page 4
FRIDAY
John Arundell v. Martin Gilligan. - Claim, 31 pounds for the erection of a brick cottage in Belmore street, Penrith, out of which defendant had paid 5 pounds 6 shillings, leaving a balance of 25 pounds 14 shillings.
Mr. W. J. Hill for plaintiff Mr. Richardson for defendant.
Plaintiff's case was that he had erected a cottage according to an agreement, and had only received 5 pound 4 shillings, on account of same. The extras were made up by the building of a water closet and adding to a wall.
Defendant swore positively that the whole of the money had been paid except thirty shillings for the wall, which he believed to be sufficient. 5 pounds was paid to a man Bayliss whom defendant looked upon as plaintiff's partner, on three different occasions, 5 pounds was paid to plaintiff, and on completion defendant paid plaintiff 5 pounds 6 shillings by cheque, 2 pounds in notes and 14 shillings in silver.
Verdict for plaintiff 30 shillings without costs.
His Honor remarking that perjury had certainly been committed by some one or other.
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Nepean Times (Penrith, NSW : 1882 - 1962), Saturday 11 August 1888, page 4
PENRITH SMALL DEBTS COURT.
TUESDAY
Before Messrs J. K. Cleeve, P.M., J. D. Single, M. Long and J. Shand J's.P.
Martin Gilligan v. Chin Cooey.
Claim, 1 pound 10 shillings, being balance of account for pumpkins sold and delivered.
Defendant did not appear, but he had called on the registrar and told him he would pay tomorrow.
Verdict for plaintiff 1 pound 10 shillings, cost of Court and one witness, 5 shillings.
Martin Gilligan v. Alfred Herbert. - Claim, 1 pound 12 shillings.
Defendant did not appear, but paid the amount of the claim into Court.
Verdict for costs and one witness, 5 shillings.
Martin Gilligan v. Mrs. George Clark. - Claim, 1 pound 2 shillings.
Defendant paid 1 pound 3 shillings into Court. Verdict for balance of costs and one witness, 5 shillings.
Martin Gilligan v. Mrs. Dormer.
This debt was contracted by the late Mr. J. Dormer, and, as Mrs. Dormer was not executrix of the will and as probate had not yet been granted, a non-suit was ordered.
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Nepean Times (Penrith, NSW : 1882 - 1962), Saturday 21 August 1886, page 2
Friday.
Before Mr. J. K, Cleeve, P.M.
LARCENY.
Frederick Tomilson appeared in custody charged that he did, on or about the18th inst., steal several bricks, valued at 5 shillings, the property of Martin Gilligan.
Constable Davis deposed: I know the prisoner; I arrested him yesterday at about 7 p.m., in Belmore street, Penrith, under and by virtue of the warrant produced, marked "A" wherein he is charged with stealing a quantity of bricks, valued at 5 shillings, the property of Martin Gilligan; I read the warrant to him and he replied "I only took two or three bricks; I did not take five shillings' worth; on the road to the lock-up he said; "I did not think there was any harm in taking them, Mark George gave me some lime and mortar, and told me I could have the loan of a trowel"; I then confined him in the lock-up.
Martin Gilligan, deposed: I am a farmer and reside at Castlereagh; I know the prisoner; I have some property in Belmore street, on which a house is in course of erection; I have some bricks there for building purposes; I have been missing bricks, timber, and other material from there; it was from information I received that I reported the matter to the police and subsequently obtained a search warrant for the residence of Captain Owen; his residence is in Belmore street, and close to my property; I obtained the warrant for this place from something I heard; after the warrant was obtained I accompanied Segt. Dove to the place; I found four new bricks, which I identified as my property; the bricks produced are the bricks I found at Captain Owen's place; I know them by the trade mark; the samples of brick and the trade mark correspond with those I have at my property; I am certain that they are my property; they were found in Captain Owen's kitchen set in mortar round a stove; there were other bricks there which I believe to be my property, but could not swear to; I missed the bricks on or about the 18th instant; I have not parted with my interest in them to any person nor have I given any one authority to take them; prisoner had no right to take them; there was no resistance to the police at the execution of the warrant; the bricks produced are worth about 1 shilling; it is not for the actual value of the bricks that I am prosecuting prisoner, but to prevent others.
Mark George deposed: I am a bricklayer's laborer; I am in the employment of Mr. Gilligan, and am helping to erect a building in Belmore street; have been at it about three weeks; I have handled a good many of the bricks; - the bricks produced belong to Mr, Gilligan; I never gave prisoner any bricks, or other material, the property of Mr, Gilligan; I have seen prisoner at the works occasionally; he was employed there for about half a day about ten days ago; I do not know of any other property being taken; it is not correct what prisoner says about me giving him lime and mortar.
To prisoner: I did not give you any mortar or lime.
Richard Henry Owen deposed: I am an officer of the Salvation Army, and reside at Penrith; I know the prisoner; he came to my place a short while ago hard-up, and I in charity took him in; during his stay with me he has whitewashed the kitchen, and relaid the hobs of the fire-place; I found it disturbed when I returned home last night; he never told me where he got the bricks from; the old bricks were there, and I thought he had used them; the bricks produced are new ones; I could not swear that they had been in my fire-place; I did not see him set the bricks, nor did he say where he got them; he told my wife last night that young Gilligan had given them to him; if I had known that he got them from Gilligan's I would have made him take them back again; I have found him honest; do not think that he is right in his head.
Prisoner elected to be summarily dealt with, pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to 14 days' imprisonment in Parramatta Gaol.
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ALDINE HISTORY OF NSW, 1888
MARTIN GILLIGAN was born on the Nepean River in 1840. He lived on his parents' settlement for about thirty-two years, and has since been engaged in farming for himself. In 1867 his father died, and our subject succeeded to the farm which contains one hundred acres, with an additional five-acre freehold. Mr. Gilligan cultivates thirty-three acres maize , forty-two acres wheat and oats, two acres vines, and one acre fruit trees. He owns thirteen horses and fourteen head of cattle, and is a cattle dealer and breeder. Mr Gilligan was married at Sydney, and has eight sons and four daughters.
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Mr. Martin Gilligan and members of the family along with close friends of the Farrell family, migrated to Coonamble in 1888. The long journey was undertaken by an eight horse team and waggonette, the roads in those days being crude and, in many parts, undefined. Settling here Martin acquired about 7,000 acres of good land on what was then known as "Bundy" country, his being designated "Woodside". Woodside is about 15k from Coonamble on the Carinda Rd. It was sold in 1933. Eventually the family established the Woodside Hotel, which was recognised as one of the best conducted hostelries in the back country.
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Nepean Times (Penrith, NSW : 1882 - 1962), Saturday 23 March 1901, page 7
ON HOLIDAYS
(By A Castlereagh Boy)
I would feel obliged if you would allow me to make a few remarks through the columns of your valuable paper. I have much pleasure in stating that during my recent holidays I took a trip to the Coonamble District, in the early part of this month, and put in a real good time. I took the train to Warren, thence by coach, a distance of 67 miles to Coonamble, a fairly good inland town, with a water supply from an artesian bore and laid on through the town. I was there met by Mr. Martin Gilligan, a well-known and one time a resident of this district, but who for the past 12 years has been a resident of Coonamble, and one of the largest and most successful selectors in that district, now being in possession of 5,800 acres of choice soil, all freehold and fully stocked with sheep. But some two months back, on account of the present dry time, Mr. Gilligan thought it best to lease the run to travel a few thousand of his sheep. People who have scrub land are cutting it for the sheep. Without a doubt I saw Coonamble at its worst. Mr. Gilligan is situated 14 miles west of the town of Bundy Station, and has a splendid home and hotel combined, which bears the name of Woodside Hotel, and where you can get a drink without any bluestone in it. This is where I, by a very kind invitation, settled down for my holiday and was made at home - and felt at home also. After a day or two of rest, the visiting began, the distance averaging from 12 to 25 miles, with a good pair of horses, and some times a third as leader. At the crack of the whip off we would go, the pace being from a trot to a fair gallop. Sometimes I would scarcely know whether I was in a vehicle or flying machine. One of our trips was to see an artesian bore on Bullarawra Station, some 25 miles out. We stayed six hours, returning the same day, 50 miles, on the round trip, which I thought double quick time; but there are no hills to climb, no stones, or holes in the way, all level country, which accounts for the speed. It was a great treat to watch the boring operations, everything going like clockwork, and Mr. Martin, the gentleman in charge of operations, informed us he had reached nearly a depth of 1900 feet, had passed through three streams at various depths, and intended to go 2000 feet. Sinking proceeded at an average of about nine inches an hour and they were working night and day; at the same time a continuous flow of water was rising of 800,000 gallons in 24 hours, which flowed into three drains eight miles long, in various directions, and was altogether a sight well worth seeing. The usual way when visiting a neighbour is to stay all night, in some instances two nights. We were well received in every direction, everyone seems to keep a good piano and violin, plenty of music, singing, and in many instances a good old time step dance. We visited the three families of Rigney Bros, on Warrana station who have a splendid holding of country near the Magamadine mountains, also Mrs. M. Landers, all one time residents of Castlereagh, and many other good families, whose names are unknown here. There is also plenty of game such as emu, wild turkey, kangaroo, parrots, top-knot pigeons, and various other kinds. Any of our boys who are fond of shooting could not do better than take a trip on the first opportunity, and keep going until they reach Mr. Gilligan's Woodside Hotel, where I can assure them one and all they will be well received and obtain everything which will tend to make happiness complete.
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The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate (NSW : 1892 - 1954), Saturday 28 July 1906, page 3
ANOTHER CASE OF ALLEGED SHEEP STEALING.
Frederick Ward pleaded not guilty to stealing a ewe, the property of Martin Gilligan, at Coonamble West on the 24th April last.
He was undefended.
Constable McRae, stationed at Coonamble, said that in consequence of certain information he went to a place near the cemetery, Coonamble West. He saw there the carcase of a sheep. It was a ewe. and had been recently slaughtered, and the skin bore Mr. Gilligan's brand. He went to the store of Tom Ah Chong and got the skin produced. It was branded with Martin Gilligan's tar brand. He saw Ward the following day, and asked him where he camped the night before, and the reply was Beanbone station. He said he could not remember being in Coonamble the previous day. Prisoner admitted that he had skinned a sheep, but did not kill it. He said that he sold the skin at the Chinaman's store near the bridge, and that he got 2 shillings 6 pence for it. He was then arrested. Accused handed him a knife and said that it was the one he skinned the sheep with. He made no reply to the charge of stealing the sheep.
Martin Gilligan deposed that he was a farmer and grazier at Woodville. On the 24th he was travelling some sheep, and resumed his journey at midday. He left a ram and two ewes behind him, as they were weak, and went back the following morning for them and found that the ewe had been killed. The skin produced was off the ewe. He never gave the accused the right to kill the ewe or take the skin.
See Hing deposed to seeing the accused kill and skin the ewe.
The defence was a denial of the stealing. The accused said that seeing three dead sheep near the cemetery he skinned one and sold the skin.
The judge having briefly summed up, jury retired to consider their verdict.
The jury found prisoner guilty of stealing the skin, and he was remanded for sentence.
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Nepean Times (Penrith, NSW : 1882 - 1962), Saturday 3 December 1910, page 6
Old Times.
Mr Edward Carroll, of Cobar, writes as follows:-
In the last issue of the Nepean Times I notice the report of a marriage of two young people belonging to old and respected Nepean River families - Gilligan and Stapleton. They are not the first couple of the same names, and I might say the same families, who in Penrith ventured on the matrimonial gamble. It is now nearly 50 years since Martin Gilligan and Biddy Stapleton set a good example in this line. I believe the bridegroom in this case is a son of this worthy couple, who, I am pleased to know, are still alive and well, and back again to the neighborhood of their childhood, near the old town of Penrith. I well remember the bride's mother, who was a niece of the late Mrs Andrew Heavey, then living in High street, opposite Mr Philpot Robbins' blacksmith and wheelwright establishment. In the year '60 of the last century she came along from the Land of St Patrick to Penrith, N.S.W. She and I were then new chums, but she had the advantage of being a fine healthy and good looking young woman; and very soon the young men around began casting sheep's eyes her way, yours truly being one of them. But Owen Stapleton came along, and went to work in earnest, and eventually she said yes; and after the late Father Brennan made one of them he took her away up the country, where they prospered and reared a decent family, If I remember rightly, the late Mr Owen Stapleton and Mrs Martin Gilligan were first cousins. Those were the days when the old Catholic Chapel and the good old Father Brennan were good enough for the young Catholic people in and around Penrith who wanted the matrimonial knot tied, and they were not too slow about it in my time in Penrith. And then we had no long newspaper reports about the dresses the ladies wore or how they looked. A good old "tin kettling" was about all the publication we knew of in those days.
Being fairly well acquainted in the old days with the fathers, mothers and people of the young couple, I here wish them long life and happiness.
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Australian Death Index, 1787-1985
Name Martin Gilligan
Father Peter
Mother Mary
Death 1916 - Petersham, New South Wales
(Note: Martin's mother is recorded as Mary by mistake, his mother was actually Jane Carr as stated on his marriage certificate. His father's first wife Mary died in 1829 before Martin was born.)
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Nepean Times, Saturday 8 January 1916, page 6
Obituary
We regret to have to record the death of Mr Martin Gilligan, one of the rare and now fast disappearing stock of early Hawkesbury and Nepean pioneers whose family names and personalities have been so notably associated with the formative period of our pastoral and agricultural and commercial history. The deceased, who was in his 78th year, and was a native of the Kurrajong District, Hawkesbury, died at his late residence, Petersham, on Saturday last (1st January, 1916) after a somewhat brief illness. Deceased was a son of the late Mr Peter Gilligan, who was one of the early grantees of the Kurrajong District, having obtained in the thirties a grant of land under the old and historic settlement system established under "Orders in Council" authorised by the Crown (before the institution of Responsible Government), the grantees being subject to a 'peppercorn' rental, so as to show that the Crown as trustee of the Government Estate did not actually sell or give away the free sample of the land. The grantees were of course, men of the best repute and of substance, and, in a word, were 'solid' men of the community. Mr Gilligan's life-history, therefore, connotes with that adventurous and picturesque period of our early nation-building era the bygone squatting and settlement epoch - when
"The State was in the making,
and politics unborn,
When Australia's dawn was breaking,
The potent, freighted dawn! "
and through the lens of the past, as we think over the phases of affairs that were the ruling surroundings of his (deceased's) boyhood and youth along the 'Blue Nepean' and the rolling 'Oxbur' (as old hands called the Hawkesbury), we seem to see again in imagery the vista of the rude, rough-hewn, but broad-handed and true-hearted 'Empire' of old times anew unfolding - its cheery folk; its massive rugged toils; its strenuous sports and rollicking dances; its boundless hospitality; that epoch which got on contentedly and successfully without even a dream of electric lighting, or railways, or motor-cars - or even Lucifer matches - and had 'no truck' whatever with such enormities as German Aggression, or such unnecessary evils as an overdose of Industrial Inspectorialism. Deceased, at an early age, removed to Castlereagh with his parents. He married his late wife (nee Miss Stapleton, a daughter of the late Richard Stapleton, Castlereagh), who pre-deceased him by some years. Mrs Gilligan, was a sister of Mrs T Rigney, Petersham, now, we believe, the only surviving member of her family. Some 27 or 28 years ago the late Mr Gilligan removed to Coonamble, in which district he took up a selection, and later conducted an hotel, achieving considerable prosperity. Mr. Gilligan was apparently, however, one of those active-minded mortals to whom novelty is the spice of life, and some years later he left the Nor-west for the Nepean country again, residing variously at Lambridge, Emu Plains, Auburn, and more recently at Petersham. The members of the family of the late Mr and Mrs Martin Gilligan are as follows, viz, Joseph, James and Peter (Coonamble), Richard (Auburn), Jack (Stanmore), Martin (Petersham), Mrs F Farrell and Mrs S Elliott (Coonamble), Mrs George Lane (Petersham), and Misses Annie and Dolly Gilligan (Petersham). There are 40 grandchildren. Mrs J Rigney, (Coonamble) is a sister of deceased. The remains of deceased were brought per train to Penrith, and the interment was at the R.C. Cemetery, Cranebrook, on Sunday last, there being a large and representative attendance. Previous to interment service was held at St Nicholas' Church, Penrith, presided over by Rev Father Barlow, who spoke of the estimable character and charitable disposition of deceased. Rev Father Barlow, assisted by, Rev Father J Muirhead, officiated at the graveside. The funeral arrangements were carried out by Mr J T Huxley. We beg to convey our sincere condolence to the family, relatives and friends of deceased in their sad bereavement.
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The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate (NSW : 1892 - 1954), Friday 14 January 1916, page 6
DEATH OF MARTIN GILLIGAN
Word has been received in Coonamble of the death of a well-known resident of the district, Mr. Martin Gilligan, who of recent years resided in Penrith and Sydney. The deceased gentleman, who was in his 79th year, was formerly a well-known landholder in the Coonamble district, having resided at Woodside, now in the hands of the Gillett family. After leaving Coonamble he lived for a time at Penrith, where Mr. Gilligan's wife predeceased him, and, then he moved on to Sydney, living with his daughter, Miss M. Gilligan. Three sons of the deceased reside in Coonamble, Messrs. J. H., Peter and James Gilligan, while Mrs. S. Elliott is a daughter. The interment took place at Cranebrook cemetery at Penrith.
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