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Convict Ship Hooghley 1825
Embarked: 195 men
Voyage: 107 days
Deaths:
Surgeon's Journal: yes
Tons: 480
Captain Peter John Reeves. Surgeon Robert Tainsh
The Hooghley was the next convict ship to leave Ireland bound for New South Wales after the departure of the Asia in October 1824.
Surgeon Robert Tainsh joined the Hooghley early in November 1824. The Hooghley departed Cork on 5th January 1825.
The ill-fated Captain Patrick Logan was in command of the Guard which consisted of 35 men of the 57th regiment and Ensign Taylor. The soldiers forming the Guard were received on board on the 13th November. Several were ill with catarrhal complaints which arose from being cold on the march from Chatham to Deptford. Robert Tainsh kept a Medical Journal from 26 October 1824 to 22 April 1825 in which many of the soldiers are mentioned.
Other ships bringing detachments of the 57th regiment included the Asia, Borodino, Norfolk, Minstrel, Sir Godfrey Webster, Henry Porcher, Lonach, Royal Charlotte, Marquis of Hastings, Sesostris, Mangles and Morley.
The prisoners were embarked on the Hooghley at the Cove of Cork in December.
Robert Tainsh himself became ill with cholera type symptoms around 18th December after going back and forth to the hulk in an open boat in bad weather. After 12 hours cholera gave way to diarrhoea and later, after exerting himself in bringing the prisoners under control he suffered a relapse. Several of the prisoners who were embarked on the 18th December had large wounds on their heads from a severe conflict aboard the hulk a few days previously in which one man was killed. Three of the men suffering with bowel complaints were rejected by the surgeon and sent back to the hulk.
Passengers included Mrs. Logan (who suffered from fainting fits and was treated by the surgeon on the voyage) and family, Rev. Robinson, wife and family, Mr. H. Connell and William Connell.
The Hooghley departed Cork on 5th January 1825.
Many of the men suffered from diarrhoea and other bowel complaints over the next few weeks and by the 16th January scurvy had begun to affect both convicts and the guard. James Crawford aged 20 became ill on the 24th January as the vessel was approaching Rio de Janeiro. He died on the 18th February 1825. The Hooghley did not depart Rio until 22nd March.
Robert Tainsh kept a detailed medical account during the voyage and he was kept busy the entire voyage. His summary of the illnesses suffered by both convicts and soldiers: Febrile affections, 41; Dysentery, 71, of which 1 died on board; Diarrhoea, 76; Scurvy, 73; Ulcers, 15; Wounds and accidents, 15; Rheumatism, 13; Pulmonic inflammation, 2; Emaciation and extreme debility, 1, who died on board; Catarrh, 40; Constipation, 24; Venereal cases, 8; Other complaints, 60.
The Hooghley arrived in Port Jackson on 22 April 1825, a voyage of 107 days. She was one of fourteen convict ships arriving in New South Wales in 1825.
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Hooghley 1825, Surgeon's Report
http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk
Folio 5: Owen Stapleton, aged 40, Prisoner; disease or hurt, ulcered leg. Put on sick list, 27 December 1824. Discharged, 30 December 1824. Put on sick list again, 7 February 1825. Discharged, 17 February 1825.
Folio 14: Owen Stapleton, aged 50, Prisoner; disease or hurt, abscess on the leg. Put on sick list, 14 February 1825. Discharged, 24 February 1825.
Folio 19: Owen Stapleton, aged 48, Prisoner; disease or hurt, catarrh. Put on sick list, 15 March 1825. Discharged, 25 March 1825.
Folio 25: Owen Stapleton, aged 36, Prisoner; disease or hurt, ulcers on the leg. Put on sick list, 22 April 1825. No date of discharge recorded, journal ends.
(Note: Owen's age transcriptions are doubtful)
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New South Wales, Australia, Convict Indents, 1788-1842
Name: Owen Stapleton
Age: 38
Date of Conviction: 22 Aug 1824
Place of Conviction: Cork
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1786
Vessel: Hooghley
Port of Arrival: Sydney Cove
Date of Arrival: 23 Apr 1825
Ticket of Leave: Yes
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Colonial Secretary Index, 1788-1825
STAPLETON, Owen. Per "Hooghley", 1825
1825 May 23
Servant of Samuel Terry. Petition for free passage for his wife Mary Norris and six children (Fiche 3288; 4/1112.1A pp.355-9)
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New South Wales, Australia, Colonial Secretary's Papers, 1788-1856
Name: Owen Stapleton
Event Date: 23 May 1825
Arrival Year: 1825
Vessel: Hooghley
Event Description: Servant of Samuel Terry. Petition for free passage for his wife Mary Norris and six children
Comments: Per "Hooghley", 1825
Page: 355-9
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NATIONAL ARCHIVES IRELAND
Ireland-Australia Transportation Records
Surname: STAPLETON;
First name: OWEN;
Sex: M;
Place of trial: County Tipperary;
Date of document: 01/03/1828;
Name of ship:
HOOGHLEY 1825;
Record reference code: FS 1828 1;
Comments: List of applicants for their wives and families to be sent out to New South Wales at the expense of the crown. Wife, Mary Norris, residing at Raghill, Co. Tipperary.
(There is no Raghill located in County Tipperary. There may be transcript errors or Raghill may now be known as Rehill, Ballylooby, County Tipperary, Ireland, which is mentioned in the New South Wales, Australia, Colonial Secretary's Papers containing the hand written application)
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1828 New South Wales, Australia Census
Name: Owen Stapleton
Age: 41
Ship: Hoogley
Year: 1825
Sentence: 14 years
Employment: Labourer
Residence: Mt Pleasant
Religion: R. Catholic
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1828 New South Wales, Australia Census (Australian Copy)
Name: Owen Stapleton
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1784
Arrival Ship: Hugley
Arrival Year: 1825
District: Evan
Residence Age: 44
Residence: New South Wales, Australia
Residence Date: 1828
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The Sydney Herald (NSW : 1831 - 1842), Monday 14 October 1833, page 1
Colonial Secretary's Office, Sydney, Oct. 7, 1833.
TICKETS OF LEAVE.
THE following Prisoners of the Crown have obtained Tickets of Leave since the last day of publication, viz.:
MALES.
County of Cumberland.
Bringelly - Savage Thomas, Sophia.
Campbelltown - Barker Isaac, Lord Melville 3.
Cook - Wood Robert, Ana 5.
Evan - Buddell Thomas, Minerva 5; Preston David, Mellish; Pryer John, Isabella 1; Sewell Christopher, Vittoria; Sherry John, Medina ; Stapleton Owen, Hooghley 1; White John, Eliza 4; Winter John, Royal George.
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New South Wales, Australia, Registers of Convicts' Applications to Marry, 1826-1851
Date: 14 Apr 1835
Name: Stapleton, Owen
Age: 47
Ship: Hooghley
Sentence: Life
Free or Bond: Ticket of Leave
Report: Stated Single
Name: Mary Noonan
Age: 22
Ship: Asia 7
Sentence: 7 years
Free or Bond: Bond
Report: Stated Single
Clergyman: C. Dowling
Date of Transmission: 22 April 1835
Comments: Allowed
It is interesting to note that Owen Stapleton's status is reported as single in his 1835 "Application to Marry" Mary Noonan, considering he applied for free passage for his first wife Mary Norris and their 6 children to be transported out from Ireland to the colony in 1825. The application for transportation was rejected at that time due to the fact that Owen had not been out in the colony long enough to warrant the granting of his application. Many convicts at that time considered their past lives over, without any hope of returning to their native homeland or seeing their loved ones again. In the early years, very few convicts' wives were able to follow their husbands to the colonies. Convicts who arrived without their spouses often entered into bigamous marriages in the absence of adequate records. In other cases they simply co-habited without formal marriage. There was also a general, if erroneous, belief in England and the colonies that if one party were transported, both parties were released from their marriage and free to marry again. Divorce was not generally available in England before 1857, except by Act of Parliament. Imagine Owen's surprise when Mary Norris arrived out to Australia in 1841 with their son Richard and his wife. Whatever happened to Mary Norris after her arrival is a mystery until her death, but records seem to indicate that Mary Noonan, Owen's second wife, and their children moved out into the Mudgee area after Owen's death in 1857 so they obviously had stayed together after Mary Norris's arrival and according to BDM records, they had more children as well. Interestingly Owen was buried in December 1857, his headstone being erected by his and Mary Noonan's son Owen, and was also joined by his first wife Mary Norris when she passed away in 1877, who eventually must have resurfaced. They were buried at McCarthy's Lane Catholic Cemetery along with their son Richard and wife Eleanor and their children Ellen and Owen and their daughter Margaret Neville. It is also interesting to note that Mary Norris's Death Certificate in 1877 was witnessed by Margaret Evans who was Owen and Mary Noonan's daughter and Mary Noonan's Death Certificate in 1903 was witnessed by her daughter Margaret's husband at the time.
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The Sydney Monitor and Commercial Advertiser (NSW : 1838 - 1841), Monday 5 August 1839, page 2
CAUTION TO DRUNKEN PARENTS. - During the last Criminal Sessions our reader will recollect the trial of a woman named Henry for the murder of her infant, which through her drunken propensities came to its death. We have now another examaple of the effects of liquor taken by sucking infants. A respectable though small settler of Castlereagh, named Stapleton, took his trial in the Supreme Court on Thursday for manslaughter of his infant, a fine child of three years of age, for administering to it rum and water, a practice which the Attorney General said prevails among drunken parents to an alarming extent in the Penrith district. The evidence was insufficient to support the information and a most fortunate circumstance for Stapleton it was, although a man of exemplary character and sobriety for had it been otherwise his punishment would doubtless have heen severe. He admitted that he had given the child a small quantity of rum and water, which Dr. Clarke did not consider sufficient in itself to have caused the death of the child.
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Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser (NSW : 1803 - 1842), Tuesday 6 August 1839, page 3
Supreme Court. - Criminal Side
THURSDAY, AUGUST 1, 1839.
(Before the Chief Justice and a Military Jury.)
Owen Stapleton was indicted for killing his child at Castlereagh, by giving it rum and water, on the 1st April. The case entirely failed in fact, and the prisoner received an excellent character from the Rev. Mr. Fulton and others. The jury, without retiring from the box, returned a verdict of not guilty.
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The Sydney Monitor and Commercial Advertiser (NSW : 1838 - 1841), Thursday 3 December 1840, page 3
Colonial Secretary's Office, Sydney, November 22, 1840.
His Excellency the Governor directs it to be notified, that the Right Honorable the Secretary of State for the Colonies has signified in his despatch No. 89, on the 29th June, 1840, Her Majesty's gracious approbation and allowance of the Absolute and Conditional Pardons granted to the undermentioned individuals, viz:
Conditional Pardons, Dated September 1, 1840 - Stapleton Owen, Hooghley 1;
By His Excellency's Command, E. DEAS THOMSON
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The Sydney Morning Herald,Tuesday 4 March 1845, page 1
A BLACK MARE STOLEN, from the Nepean River, near Penrith, on the 4th of February, 1845, of the following description:-
Five years old; one hind leg gray, a blaze of white on the face, with a twist on the blaze, a small lump on her hind hock; branded on the near shoulder O S CS A Brown filly Foal, three months old, not branded. If stolen, Two Pounds Reward; if strayed, Ten Shillings Reward, for the recovery of both.
OWEN STAPLETON,
District of Penrith, Nepean
3216
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The Sydney Morning Herald, Saturday 20 December 1856, page 8
IMPOUNDINGS
NEPEAN, Castlereagh, 12th December - From near Penrith, by Owen Stapleton , damages 2s 6d. Black or brown horse, star and snip, hind feet white, shod, 8 sideways over 8M with CCJ under near shoulder, aged, 10 hands high. Brown colt, whlte face, near hind foot white, indescribable, brand off shoulder illegible, blotched brand off side under saddle illegible, 1 year old. Brown horse, saddle marked black points, 14 hands high, LC over A ? near shoulder, 2 sideways on near side of neck. Will be sold January 14.
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The Sydney Morning Herald, Friday 13 February 1857, page 7
The Sydney Morning Herald, Saturdat 14 February 1857, page 9
The Sydney Morning Herald, Tuesday 17 February 1857, page 7
Unreserved Sale on WEDNESDAY, the 18th Instant, at
the Old Farm, Regentsville.
Working Bullock, Horses, Dray, Carts, &c, &c, &c.
CHARLES COTTRELL has been instructed by Mr. Owen Stapleton to sell by auction, at his Residence, known as the Old Farm, Regentsville, near Penrith,
The undermentioned valuable property, viz.,
A team of working bullocks (6), yokes, bows, and chains, draught and saddle horses, milch cows, heifers, and steers, the whole of which are in first-rate condition; also, (2) two carts, 1 dray, and a variety of other useful and valuable property.
Terms, cash.
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Australia, Death Index, 1787-1985
Name: Owen Stapleton
Death Date: 1857
Death Place: New South Wales
Registration Year: 1857
Registration Place: Penrith, New South Wales
Registration Number: 4174
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Owen and Mary's gravestone reads:
ERECTED BY OWEN STAPLETON I.H.S.
IN MEMORY OF HIS FATHER
OWEN STAPLETON
Who Departed this Life
DECEMBER 11, 1857
AGED 73 YEARS
MY FLESH SHALL SLUMBER IN THE GRAVE
AND AT THE TRUMPETS JOYFUL SOUND
I'LL BURST MY CHAINS WITH SWEET SURPRISE
AND IN MY SAVIOUR'S IMAGE RISE.
Also
MARY STAPLETON
Who Departed This Life
OCT 31, 1877
AGED 86 YEARS
MAY THEY REST IN PEACE
Note: Year on footstone not the same as on the headstone
Grave No: 28/1
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Footstone O.S. 1858
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The cemetery records show that the following family members are buried together:
Owen and Mary Stapleton
Owen and Mary's daughter Margaret Neville
Owen and Mary's son Richard and his wife Eleanor
Richard and Eleanor's children Ellen and Owen Stapleton
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