Foley

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NameFoleyDescriptionSamuel Foley was born c.1760 in Birmingham. He was transported on board the 'HMS Glatton' after being convicted in 1801 at the Lenten 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 5’6, his occupation was blacksmith, his complexion dark sallow, hair brown, and eyes hazel.

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 and 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 fourteen children. The eldest, Martha was born at Parramatta in 1814 and the youngest Elizabeth was born in 1839 at Wollongong.
The Foley’s moved around NSW living at Parramatta, Curran, Campbelltown, and the Illawarra.

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.

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Farragher, Murtagh (Murty)

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Indenture - James Foley

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Indenture - James Foley

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Geraghty

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

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