Thomas Power (1796 - 1847)

Born 1796 in Kildare, Ireland,

Husband of Mary Anne (Nowlan) Power — married 1820 in Ireland

Descendants

Died 19 Mar 1847 at about age 51 in Penrith, New South Wales, Australia

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Biography

Thomas Power was a convict after the Third Fleet transported to New South Wales

Thomas Power.^[1]

Community Contributions Keith South on 18th April, 2015

Thomas was born in Kildare, Ireland, about 1796. and died on 19 March 1847, aged 51. buried McCarthy’s Lane cemetery NSW .^[2][3]

The first Power in our Australian family was Thomas, born in Kildare, Ireland, about 1796. He was taught to read and write probably in a ‘hedge school’: these schools were moveable makeshifts for elementary education and rudimentary Catholic instruction: they operated outside the brutal colonial penal laws imposed by Dublin Castle, which was the headquarters and grim symbol of the Protestant English ascendancy in Ireland. Thomas became a ploughman. Possibly, at Moone, Kildare, just south of Dublin, about 1820 he married Mary Ann Nowlan. She had been born about 1793.

On 26 March 1826 Thomas was sentenced to seven years’ transportation to New South Wales. Thomas arrived in Sydney on 17 January 1829 on the Sophia, leaving Mary Ann and their two sons, James and Patrick, in Ireland. Thomas, like the great majority of convicts, was not imprisoned in the colony. He was assigned as a labourer to Henry Osborne, a Protestant Irishman from Tyrone. Osborne was a free settler with some capital, who had been granted land at Marshall Mount (based on the present town of Dapto, on the South Coast). He was a forerunner of a family that remains prominent around Bungendore, in southern New South Wales. Thomas received his ticket-of-leave on 1 October 1833, which meant that he could move around, and if he continued to remain out of trouble, he would become a free man in 1836,

In 1836 he asked that Mary Ann, and James and Patrick, be allowed to join him.

Sources

1. ↑ Power-1333 was created by Veronica Williams through the import of POWER extra Hopkins_2014-10-14.ged on Oct 14, 2014.
2. ↑ NSW BDM Online death POWER THOMAS 1298/1847 V18471298 116 AGE 48
3. ↑ Thomas Power, Australia, New South Wales, Cemetery, Military, and Church Record Transcripts, 1816-1982, Name: Thomas Power, Event Type: Burial, Event Place: Penrith, New South Wales, Australia, Age: 51, Birth Year (Estimated): 1796, Death Date: 19 Mar 1847, Cemetery: McCarthy's Cemetery