Convicts and employees

Descendants' Day at Dalwood 2024

Invitation

The Dalwood Restoration Association, whose members include both Wyndham and convict descendants, cordially invites the descendants of the convicts, Indigenous people, German vine-dressers, free immigrants, and colonial born employees who worked at any of the Wyndham properties at Dalwood (Branxton), Mahngarinda (Merriwa), Colly Blu (Liverpool Plains), Bukkulla and Nullamanna (McIntyre River) or Keelgyrah (Richmond River) between 1828 and 1900, and during Dalwood’s later ownership by Penfolds and Wyndham Estate Wines, and anyone interested in history to join them for:

 

Our previous Descendants' Day was held in 2022.

Research

Recent research indicates that George Wyndham had over 150 convicts assigned to work on his various properties between 1828 and 1849. The list below is a preliminary list of convicts who worked for George Wyndham. There is a further list of names of people who have not yet been fully identified, but appear to have worked for Wyndham.

If you are descended from any of these people, or from anyone else not listed, who worked for Wyndham, please contact

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Are you descended from anyone on this list?

Convicts

Preliminary list of convicts who worked for George Wyndham at Dalwood (Branxton), Mahngarinda (Merriwa), Colly Blu (Liverpool Plains), Bukkulla (McIntyre River), Nullamanna (McIntyre River) or Keelgyrah (Richmond River):

Name	Ship	Arrived
Abrian, Henry	Clyde	1832
Ahern, Patrick	Marquis of Huntley	1827
Allan, James	Clyde	1837
Allen, John Brewing	Clyde	1832
Allen, Thomas	Florentia	1830
Arnold, William	Clyde	1832
Ayres, Valentine	Surry	1819
Bagley, Frances	Burrell	1832
Bagnall, William	Albion	1827
Balls, Thomas	Royal George	1828
Barnes, Thomas	Asia	1830
Beard, Michael	Eliza	1827
Biggins, Thomas	Clyde	1837
Boland, Anthony	Marquis of Huntley	1828
Bradford, James Alfred	Princess Royal	1823
Breene, Michael	Havering	1849
Brett, Jane	Louisa	1830
Brien, John	Marquis of Huntley	1828
Brogan, James	Marquis of Huntley	1828
Brotheridge, William	Waterloo	1833
Brown, Henry	Surry	1834
Brown, Patrick	Marquis of Huntley	1828
Brown, John	Waterloo	1833
Browne, William	Canada	1819
Byrnes, John	Havering	1849
Cannon, James	Ferguson	1829
Carroll, Thomas	Havering	1849
Casey, John	John Barry	1828
Chorlton, James	Mellish	1829
Coleman, Joseph	Larkins	1829
Callinan, John	Norfolk	1832
Collins, James	Norfolk	1829
Connolly, James	Asia	1828
Connolly, James	Ferguson	1829
Connor, James	John Barry	1821
Connors, John	Havering	1849
Copenhurst, Emma	Mary Anne	1839
Corcoran, Jeremiah	Larkins	1829
Cotton, Richard	Jane	1831
Coughlan, Bernard	Havering	1849
Cousins, James	Ferguson	1829
Coyle, Catherine	Hooghly	1831
Croft, Ismael	Norfolk	1837
Cunniff, Mary	Margaret	1839
Curley, Elizabeth	Hooghly	1831
Currane, Michael	Havering	1849
Curren, John	Castle Forbes	1824
Curtis, Nicholas	Lord Sidmouth	1820
Dacey, James	Camden	1831
Daly, Bridget	Margaret	1839
Dangerfield, James	Asia	1825
Davis, Obadiah	Marquis of Huntley	1828
Donoho, Patrick	Lonach	1825
Dent, John	Vittoria	1829
Dewsnap, Thomas	Asia	1828
Draper, Grace	Mary Anne	1835
Duggan, Michael	Havering	1849
Eccles, Richard	Lord Lyndoch	1833
Errington, Thomas	Lord Lyndoch	1838
Fearne, Thomas	Exmouth	1831
Faugkner, Patrick	Blenheim	1839
Feeney, Timothy	Earl St Vincent	1818
Field, George	Marquis of Hastings	1826
Finch, John	Captain Cook	1833
Fogarty, Edward	Java	1833
Frazer, Anne	Brothers	1827
Gamble, Jane	Mary Anne	1834
Gibbons, Michael	Larkins	1837
Gibson, David (John Sinclair)	Champion	1827
Grady, John	Havering	1849
Greenwood, Thomas	Nithsdale	1836
Hamill, Jacob	Cambridge	1827
Hawkins, William	Henry Porcher	1835
Healy, Michael	Boyne	1826
Heloise, Joseph A F	Lady Harewood	1832
Heskins, Louisa	Roslyn Castle	1830
Hill, John	Lord Lyndoch	1833
Hodwell, David	Norfolk	1837
Howells, Maria	Competitor	1828
Hughes, Elizabeth	Competitor	1831
Irvine, Thomas	Boyne	1826
Jackson, Anne	Grenada	1827
Jenkins, James	Albion	1828
Jones, George Powell	Susan	1836
Jones, William Henry	Lady Nugent	1835
Keane, Thomas	Eliza	1829
Keen, Catherine	Lucy Davidson	1829
Kearney, John	Ferguson	1829
Kenny, Daniel	Waterloo	1831
Kent, Richard	Heroine	1833
Kimmerley, James	Lord Melville	1829
Laddams, Benjamin	Charles Kerr	1836
Lawler, Cavin	Havering	1849
Lawless, John	Waterloo	1831
Lee, Herbert	Clyde	1832
Lloyd, Isabella	Grenada	1825
Lock, John	Guildford	1824
Lund, John	Larkins	1817
Lynch, Michael	Lonach	1825
McBean, John	Strathfieldsay	1836
McCarthy, Patrick	Havering	1849
McDonald, Ann	Forth	1830
McGough, Michael	Elizabeth	1829
McInerny, Joseph	Eliza	1829
McKeon, Bryan	Regalia	1826
McLennan, Michael	Isabella	1823
McManus, James	Minerva	1818
Magee, James	Havering	1849
Magrath, James (Magraw)	John Barry	1821
Maher, John	Eliza	1829
Malowney, Patrick	Lonach	1828
Manning, Patrick	Blenheim	1834
Marron, Michael	Mary Anne	1819
Meredith, John	Java	1833
Meany, Bridget	Forth	1830
Meredith, Robert	Java	1833
Mehan, Darby	Havering	1849
Moran, Michael	Eliza	1832
Moran, Patrick	Eliza	1832
Moore, Ann	Asia	1830
Murtagh, John	Dorothy	1820
Neale, William	Castle Forbes	1824
Niblett, John	Westmoreland	1835
Nixon, Joseph	Lloyds	1837
Noonan, Michael	Havering	1849
Nulty, Thomas (McNulty)	Lord Sidmouth	1821
O'Brien, James	James Pattison	1830
O'Neil, John	Eliza	1827
Price, Henry	Baring	1819
Quinlan, Patrick	Havering	1849
Quint, John	Eliza	1829
Rafferty, James	Hercules	1830
Redmond, James	Calcutta	1837
Reeves, Esther	Buffalo	1834
Robertson, Edward	Larkins	1829
Robinson, John	Clyde	1832
Rostram, William	Waterloo	1838
Rourke, Francis	Calcutta	1837
Russell, William	Asia	1832
Ryan, William	Havering	1849
Simpson, Ann	Princess Royal	1829
Slater, Roger	Asia	1833
Smyth, Bridget	Pyramus	1836
Stacey, John	Emma Eugenia	1838
Stanley, Israel	Countess of Harcourt	1823
Sullivan, Michael	Castle Forbes	1824
Sullivan, Owen	Borodino	1828
Sweeney, Eugene	Castle Forbes	1824
Syas, Anne	Burrell	1832
Tench, William	Borodino	1828
Timson, Ellen	Lucy Davidson	1829
Tithers, Charlotte	Princess Royal	1829
Tobin, Nicholas	Java	1833
Unwin, Francis	Albion	1837
Ware, James	Katherine Stewart Fowler	1830
Wells, Henry	Recovery	1836
West, Mary Ann	Fanny	1833
Wood, Henry	Norfolk	1829
White, William	Hercules	1825
Wright, Elizabeth	Numa	1834
Wright, John	Nithsdale	1830

Not yet identified

Names in Wyndham's Diary not yet identified as either convicts, former convicts, free immigrants, or colonial born:

Curran,	Chapman,	Fitzpatrick,
Harris,	Hogan,	Larkin,
Mawson,	Piper,	Press,
Smith, Mary	Spooner,	Coghlan,
Wood,	McDonald,	Booter,
Nagle,	Bill Neill,	Macdonagh,
Smith, Anne	Kelly,	Flanagan,
Micanotti,	Sheehan,	Brennan,
McGough,	Old Barnes

Other people

Other people who worked for Wyndham before 1860:

Catherine Spaulding	John Urquhart	Edmund King
Alex McLeod	Samuel Humbly	Jane Humbly
Catherine Lawless	Richard Howard	William Tuite
William Hedges	Richard Cottrell	George Campbell
Alex Taylor	Patrick Lawless	George Beavis
Jeremiah Slaven	Alice Martin	Benjamin and Elizabeth Baker
Walter Bailey

 

If you are descended from any of the above, or anyone else who worked for a Wyndham between 1828 and 1900, or have any corrections or information about any of the above, please contact