Showing posts with label Southworth. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Southworth. Show all posts

Monday, October 31, 2016

John Donovan b 1776

 Not only a horse thief, and a convict, but a bigamist as well!


I would have liked to have been a fly on the wall when Elizabeth (Mahoney) Donovan and her daughter arrived in Australia on the 14th May 1826  and found that her Irish husband John, transported as a convict, had married another convict in Sydney!

I think that Elizabeth must have been a feisty Irish woman, and a force to be reckoned with!

John Donovan and the vessel Southworth