Peter Darnell
(Cir 1740-)
Margaret Dowlin
(Cir 1740-)
Margaret (convict) Dowling / Darnell
(1766-1834)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. Owen (the second) (Seaman) Cavanough

2. Charles (the first) Green

Margaret (convict) Dowling / Darnell

  • Born: 1766, Ireland UK
  • Christened: 1766, Dublin Santry, Eire Ireland
  • Marriage (1): Owen (the second) (Seaman) Cavanough in 1794 in Norfolk Island Penal Settlement, NSW Australia
  • Marriage (2): Charles (the first) Green in Mar 1788
  • Died: 24 Sep 1834, Sackville Reach, Windsor, NSW Australia at age 68
  • Buried: St Thomas, Sackville Reach, NSW Australia

  General Notes:

source: edward to dylan 1. ged

  Noted events in her life were:

• source. Petri Krohn & http://www.easystreetretreat.com.au/australianroyalty where it is noted:
MARGARET DARNELL was indicted for stealing, on the 30th day of March last, one dozen of desert knives and forks, value 6 s. the property of James White , privily in his shop.
JAMES WHITE sworn.
I am an ironmonger and cutler in Holborn, near Chancery-lane ; on the 30th of March in the evening, about nine, the prisoner came into my shop under a pretence of buying some knives; I was writing behind my counter; my man shewed her several sorts; they did not suit her; at last she wanted some tacks, and asked the price of them, he told her three half-pence a hundred; she said, that was too much; I said to the man, she does not want any thing; she turned round to go out, and my man missed the parcel of knives; they were done up to go away; he immediately seized her by the cloak and pulled her cloak off; she left that behind her; she almost knocked the man down; my man has the property.
DAVID THOMAS sworn.
I saw the prisoner come into the shop; I have no doubt but it is the same woman; she asked for some small knives; I shewed her the sort; she said, she thought they were too dear; I looked on the counter where the knives and forks stood; I saw them just before I reached out the drawer; when I looked the second time, I saw but one parcel; I caught hold of her, and asked her what she had under her cloak; she made no aNew South Waleser, but went towards the door; her cloak came off in my hand; I pursued and took her just on the outside of the door; just as I took hold of her, the things were thrown down; I picked them up and carried them into the shop, and found they were one of the two parcels that lay in the shop; she leaned exactly on that part of the counter; the cloak spread over the knives that I could not see her take them.
- PATRICK sworn.
I was going to the prosecutor's house with a pint of beer; I guarded her from dinging it out of my hand; I saw her throw something down; it was taken up immediately; that was the parcel.
(Deposed to by the prosecutor having his shop mark on it.)
Thomas. They were looked out that evening; one parcel were table knives, the other desert knives; she only took the deserts.
What is the value of these? - Six shillings.
PRISONER's DEFENCE.
I was sent for a penny-worth of nails; I went to this shop, and they charged me three half-pence; there were two women in the shop when I went in; they went out while I was there; as I was going out I saw the parcel lay; I never touched it.
Prosecutor. There was no other person in the shop.
Thomas. There was nobody.
GUILTY Of stealing, but not privily.
Transported for seven years .
Tried by the first Middlesex Jury before Mr. Baron HOTHAM.
She was sentenced to seven years transportation at the Old Bailey on 18 April 1787, just in time to be sent to Portsmouth on the 30 April 1787 for embarkation on 'Prince of Wales' with the First Fleet.
Margaret Dowling and marine Private Charles Green conceived a son in Mar 1788. Charles Green was also a First Fleeter, arriving aboard the ship 'Friendship'. At Port Jackson 22 Dec 1788 Margaret bore a son Charles from this union. The child went with her to Norfolk Island on 4 Mar 1790 aboard the ship 'Sirius'.
(In Sep 1794 Charles Green Sen. made an attempt to get his son from Margaret, but was told she could keep him until he reached the age of seven, and Green apparently did not persist.)
By 1794 Owen Cavanough and Margaret Dowling/Darnell were living together with her son Charles Green Jr. In 1796 Margaret and Owen left Norfolk Island for Port Jackson aboard the ship 'Francis' with two children.


Margaret married Owen (the second) (Seaman) Cavanough, son of Owen (the first) Cavanough and Grace, in 1794 in Norfolk Island Penal Settlement, NSW Australia. (Owen (the second) (Seaman) Cavanough was born in 1762 in Gosport, Hampshire England, christened on 20 Jun 1762 in Holy Trinity, Gosport, Hampshire England, died on 25 Nov 1841 in Wheeny Creek, Hawkesbury, NSW Australia and was buried on 27 Nov 1841 in St Thomas, Sackville Reach, NSW Australia.)


Margaret next married Charles (the first) Green in Mar 1788. (Charles (the first) Green was born circa 1760 in Hampshire England and died before 1 Dec 1799 in Sydney Cove, NSW Australia.)


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