<COL104-W38F15BBECAB76C02AEA26FE3DB0@phx.gbl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 Hi Stephanie I didn't follow this much further and the information I was interested in=20 was about the crime and not particularly the people involved. Sites that ma= y be useful in include: =A0 Decisions of the Superior Courts of New South Wales 1788-1899 website at=20 http://www.law.mq.edu.au/scnsw/index.htm plus the State Records website at= =20 www.records.nsw.gov.au=A0 The Historic Australian Newspapers 1803-1954 on t= he=20 National Library of Australia website are also excellent see=20 http://newspapers.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/home I presume you have investigated the 1828 Census? This may lead you to the=20 name of the ship she arrived (it also depends whether she married Connors=20 in Australia) By following Connors it may lead you to additional informatio= n=20 about the wife. Cheers Michelle There were two more reports about the event. The last report appeared in=20 'Sydney Gazette' 30 December 1826 p. 3=20 "Catharine Connor for perjury to be transported for the term of three years= ." The other was from the 'Australian' on the 25 November 1826 : "Catherine Connor was indicted for wilful and corrupt perjury.The assignmen= ts in=20 the information were two in number the first setting forth that the prisoner on being examined before the Police Bench at Windsor did depose on oath that she never allowed one Wm. Connoly to take unbecomin= g=20 liberties with her and that on a certain day he violated her person.=20 Wm. Connolly stated that in the month of September last he was assigned=20 to John Connor a settler living near Windsor - he was in the habit of meeting his mistress by appointment at various=20 places - she sometimes sent for him. Connor's situation not suiting him to his wishes=3D2C he begged his master to assign= =20 him to some other person. - Mr. Redman a farmer in the neighbourhood was=20 proposed and witness accepted the offer.He had not remained many weeks in his new master's employment when his late=20 mistress (Connor) urged him to return to his former situation and=20 promised to get him an acre of ground for his own cultivation. He consented and prevailed on Mr. Redman to return him to Connor. Whilst in= =20 Redman's employment his mistress used to send for him - he occasionally met= her. Upon his return Connor's wife and him "played the old game as usual" they occasionally went out together to drink they most drank rum.Witness obtained a pass from his master to go to Parramatta to see a former acquaintance -=20 this was on a Saturday. Early on the same morning as he was preparing himself to start his mistress (Connor) came to him before master was up and said she would clean herself and then go along with him - it was proposed by his mistress (the prisoner) that she should meet him about 4 miles on the road leading from Windsor they met there between 7 and=20 8 o'clock in the morning and went on together towards "the Hills" - on their way they stopped at the house of one Parker a sawyer=20 but did not staybmany minutes - afterwards went to Doyle's public-house=20 in Windsor and drank 3 gills of rum between them. Witness requested Doyle not to mention to any person that they had been there. It was thought by them that Connor would be in Windsor that day and prisoner begged of Doyle to tell Connor if he shoul= d come that he (witness) must be then at Parramatta as he had left=20 there a long time before. Prisoner and witness left Doyle's house early in the afternoon and returned home together.=20 On their way thither about four miles from the farm they went off the high road into a thick scrub - they were=20 here a few minutes when Connor the prisoner's husband came and surprised=20 them in an unequivocal situation. He shook his head at witness and the prisoner and then walked away - there had been no=20 cries of murder nor any other noise of alarm made by the prisoner - they we= nt home together the spot where they had been surprised at was about 16 rod from the roadside. Connor was not seen by either witness of the woman until he came within a few yards of them - prisoner and witness walked away home - next morning prisoner appointed "Taylor's"=20 as a place of meeting the following Sunday - on that day they met there and were on the usual terms of familiarity together witness remained at Tay= lor's that night - he saw prisoner all night. Neither at this time nor upon any previous occasion had the prisoner charged him with committing acts of violence on her person. Witness was charged before the Magistrates at Windsor with violating the person of the prisoner in the beginning of September - the charge was not preferred against him for a month after that period although he was in the daily employment of Connor and lived on his premises in the interim. Witness knows that Connor and his wife had words on several occasions relative to=20 his having surprised them in the manner related.=20 Several witnesses were called to substantiate particulars connected with th= e foregoing statement. The prisoner was found Guilty." =A0________________________________ > From: stephanie bull [mailto:stephaniebull@bigpond.com] > Sent: Tuesday=3D2C 22 September 2009 > To: Michelle Nichols > Subject: re catharine Connor > > ...I would like to find out more about this woman=3D92s background ---- D= o yo=3D > u know if any information exists and if so where I could find these recor= ds=3D > ? I have an ancestor of the same name whom I know little about other than= h=3D > er name and that she was the mother of my gr gr gr grandmother who was bo= rn=3D > in England and I have > not been able to find how or exactly when she came to Australia=3D2C it i= s po=3D > ssible that she came as a child with her mother. > > =3D =