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Michael Rush was a gardener and nurseryman in Ireland. He was a native of Kearney and was employed at the estate Killadoon, Co. Kildare, Ireland.
Killadoon remains in tact as an estate, and direct descendants of the original grantee still live there and are particularly proud of the estate's history and theirs. Michael Rush's nursery beds are still in tact, and the walled garden is till used and maintained beautifully. So having visited the estate, we were able to stand at the very spot where Michael tended the nursey beds, and stand in the apple house where he stored the apples... and to view the workers' cottages from the kitchen window of the manor house, just as the resident owners did and still do.
The beautiful wall paper in the living room/parlour was pasted in 1820, the year that Michael Rush was tried and deported.
He was arrested for being in possession of forged notes. He was tried in Dublin on 27 June 1820 and was convicted and sentenced to transportation for 14 years. He was transported on the "Almorah" as one of 160 male convicts.
The 416 ton "Almorah" made 3 transits from Britain to Sydney:
The first in 1817 from Downs to Sydney via Rio with180 males 24.6.1817 arriving 29.8.1817.
The second from Waterford to Sydney with 160 males[including 1 death] 22.8.20 arriving 22.12.20. Master: Thos. Winter and Surgeon: Sam Alexander.
The third from Cork to Sydney with 109 females[including 1 death] 6.4.24 arriving 20.8.24.
Bateson makes a few references-inter alia
Page 59:"The same year [1820] the Brigs carrying the men for the Almorah became wind - bound at Waterford when journeying from Dublin to Cork. They had sailed from Dublin on 23 July, the day the Almorah reached Cork, and the convicts were not embarked until the Almorah put into Waterford on August 12."
RUSH, Michael. Per "Almorah", 1820
1821 Jan 6 in Colonial Secretary records, "Michael Rush" on list of convicts disembarked from the "Almorah" and forwarded to Parramatta for distribution (Reel 6007; 4/3503 p.17)
In New South Wales, Michael Rush was assigned to Liverpool, where he was under James Meehan, Deputy Surveyor-General. [It was Meehan who in 1818, named and discovered the Goulburn Downs and Lake Bathurst while on expedition with Hamilton Hume. He later surveyed the road route SW from Liverpool to the Goulburn Plains and the Lake Bathurst district. meehan also surveyed Castlereagh town.] Michael Rush, John Geahan, Patrick Conlen and Lawrence Higgins were assigned together. Rush is with James Meehan at Liverpool for the 1822 Muster, but by 1828 he became a stockman for Jon Mc Henry, who resided in Evan County (Castlereagh) and ran 300 cattle and 800 sheep. Michael Rush alias Michael Kearney was given a "Ticket of Leave" 16 April 1836, being exempted from government employment, and this was torn up in 1840 for he was given his freedom, 27 Feb 1840. He should have been freed after 14 years, ie in 1834.
One of the earliest mills in the Penrith district was a water-driven flour mill built on the banks of the Nepean River at Castlereagh by Mr. John McHenry in 1834. The mill was operated by a Mr. Bell, then by the Allen family until it was demolished in 1872. McHenry married Sarah Fulton, daughter of the Rev Henry Fulton. 1828 Census New South Wales.
McHenry, John 38 Came free
McHenry, Sarah 27 Born in colony
Margaret A. 4
Jane A. 2
Ship Mary 1819
Landholder EVAN (2600 ac. 400 cleared, 300 cultivated, 38 horses, 618 horned cattle, 620 sheep). Operated a flour mill at 'Lambridge'
My interest in McHenry and his family is to try to build up detail of the
their life, activities during the period 1824 /1830 when he had "assigned
servant" Edmund/Edward Markham (my g.g.grandfather) employed, incl the last
three years as his overseer.
"Reminiscences of a District Veteran"
Mr Michael Long, J.P.; Lambridge, An account of the early days in the Nepean District by William Freame, Penrith City Library Historical Series 1985 Reprint ISSN: 081
Submitted by Researcher (740) on 9 November 2024
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