Difference between revisions of "Michael Murphy"
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| + | [[File:I05527-p0000-000001-0090-010-006.jpg|800px|thumb|right|"Official form on blue paper - evidence - [[Michael Murphy]], private 40th Regiment, 27 October 1854, p.1, PROV, VPRS5527/P0 Unit 1, Item 90 | ||
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| + | Be it remembered, that on 27th day of October in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty four from [[Michael Murphy]] of Ballarat in the Colony of Victoria Private - 40th Regiment personally came before me one of Her Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the said Colony, and acknowledged himself to owe to our Sovereign Lady the Queen the sum of one hundred pounds, of good lawful money of Great Britain, to be made and levied of the goods and chattels, lands and tenements, in the use of our said Lady the Queen, her Heirs and Successors, if the said [[Michael Murphy]] shall fail in the condition indorsed.<br/> | ||
| + | Taken and acknowledged the day and year of your first above mentioned at Ballarat in the said Colony before me<br/> | ||
| + | E.P.S.Sturt JP]] | ||
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| + | [[File:I05527-p0000-000001-0090-010-006v.jpg|800px|thumb|right|"Official form on blue paper - evidence - [[Michael Murphy]], private 40th Regiment, 27 October 1854, p.2, PROV, VPRS5527/P0 Unit 1, Item 90<br/> | ||
| + | The condition of the within written Recognizance is such, That Whereas Henry Westerby alias Yorky this day charged before me a Justice of the Peace within mentioned, for that he the said Henry Westerby alias Yorkie was the Seventeenth day of October 1854 at Ballarat in the Colony aforesaid, did with other persons riotously and tumultuously assemble, and did then and there, feloniously burn, pull down and destroy the dwelling of one James Francis Bentley it therefore be the said [[Michael Murphy]] shall appear at the Supreme Court of Criminal Sessions to be holden at Melbourne in and for the Colony of Victoria, on the fifteenth day of November A.D., 1854, and there give such evidence as he knoweth upon an information to be then and there preferred against the said Henry Westerby alias Yorkey for the offence aforesaid, as the Jurors who shall pass upon the trial of the said Henry Westerby alias Yorkey then the said Recognizance to be void or else stand in full force and virtue.]] | ||
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==Background== | ==Background== | ||
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==Further Reading== | ==Further Reading== | ||
Revision as of 18:55, 5 August 2017
"Official form on blue paper - evidence - Michael Murphy, private 40th Regiment, 27 October 1854, p.1, PROV, VPRS5527/P0 Unit 1, Item 90
Be it remembered, that on 27th day of October in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty four from Michael Murphy of Ballarat in the Colony of Victoria Private - 40th Regiment personally came before me one of Her Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the said Colony, and acknowledged himself to owe to our Sovereign Lady the Queen the sum of one hundred pounds, of good lawful money of Great Britain, to be made and levied of the goods and chattels, lands and tenements, in the use of our said Lady the Queen, her Heirs and Successors, if the said Michael Murphy shall fail in the condition indorsed.
Taken and acknowledged the day and year of your first above mentioned at Ballarat in the said Colony before me
E.P.S.Sturt JP
Be it remembered, that on 27th day of October in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty four from Michael Murphy of Ballarat in the Colony of Victoria Private - 40th Regiment personally came before me one of Her Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the said Colony, and acknowledged himself to owe to our Sovereign Lady the Queen the sum of one hundred pounds, of good lawful money of Great Britain, to be made and levied of the goods and chattels, lands and tenements, in the use of our said Lady the Queen, her Heirs and Successors, if the said Michael Murphy shall fail in the condition indorsed.
Taken and acknowledged the day and year of your first above mentioned at Ballarat in the said Colony before me
E.P.S.Sturt JP
"Official form on blue paper - evidence - Michael Murphy, private 40th Regiment, 27 October 1854, p.2, PROV, VPRS5527/P0 Unit 1, Item 90
The condition of the within written Recognizance is such, That Whereas Henry Westerby alias Yorky this day charged before me a Justice of the Peace within mentioned, for that he the said Henry Westerby alias Yorkie was the Seventeenth day of October 1854 at Ballarat in the Colony aforesaid, did with other persons riotously and tumultuously assemble, and did then and there, feloniously burn, pull down and destroy the dwelling of one James Francis Bentley it therefore be the said Michael Murphy shall appear at the Supreme Court of Criminal Sessions to be holden at Melbourne in and for the Colony of Victoria, on the fifteenth day of November A.D., 1854, and there give such evidence as he knoweth upon an information to be then and there preferred against the said Henry Westerby alias Yorkey for the offence aforesaid, as the Jurors who shall pass upon the trial of the said Henry Westerby alias Yorkey then the said Recognizance to be void or else stand in full force and virtue.
The condition of the within written Recognizance is such, That Whereas Henry Westerby alias Yorky this day charged before me a Justice of the Peace within mentioned, for that he the said Henry Westerby alias Yorkie was the Seventeenth day of October 1854 at Ballarat in the Colony aforesaid, did with other persons riotously and tumultuously assemble, and did then and there, feloniously burn, pull down and destroy the dwelling of one James Francis Bentley it therefore be the said Michael Murphy shall appear at the Supreme Court of Criminal Sessions to be holden at Melbourne in and for the Colony of Victoria, on the fifteenth day of November A.D., 1854, and there give such evidence as he knoweth upon an information to be then and there preferred against the said Henry Westerby alias Yorkey for the offence aforesaid, as the Jurors who shall pass upon the trial of the said Henry Westerby alias Yorkey then the said Recognizance to be void or else stand in full force and virtue.
Contents
Background
Goldfields Involvement, 1854
Michael Murphy on his oath at Ballarat this 27 October 1854 said "I am a private of 40th Regt. On the 17th Inst by Command of Lieut. Broadhurst I was marched to Bentley’s Hotel. We formed round the Hotel I saw the prisoner Westerby seize the firelock of Private Sorrell and try to take it from him – he was pushed away by Mr. Commr. Rede I was close to the prisoner at this time I was only the length of firelock from him.
Post 1854 Experiences
Obituary
See also
Further Reading
References
External links
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