Nicholas Delaney - hero or villain?

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The 1798 pikeman, Wexford

Nicholas was sentenced to death for murdering two Government supporters during the Irish Rebellion of 1798.

After months in a stinking gaol he was reprieved and transported to New South Wales.

As a convict labourer and overseer, he built some of Australia's oldest roads.

Later he married and became a farmer and innkeeper and a pioneer settler west of the daunting Blue Mountains.

Find out more in this overview of Nicholas Delaney's life.



A Rebel Hand: Nicholas Delaney of 1798 tells the story of his eventful life against the background of rebellion in Ireland, the suffering of convicts in Australia and the forging of a new country.

 Nicholas's story is available in an illustrated paperback by two of his descendants, Patricia and Frances Owen, from BANNER, ISBN 0 9533418 0 1.

For details or to buy a copy, please email us at arebelhand [at] gmail [dot] com (strange-looking address is to avoid bots, just type it the usual way!) or go to our order page.

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On this site:


● A short biography of Nicholas Delaney
● Extracts from A Rebel Hand:
1. Trial and gaol in Wicklow
2. Transported: aboard the convict ship
3. Convict life in Sydney, marriage
● Delaney Descendants - our family
● Reviews - praise for A Rebel Hand from the press and other readers
● Order A Rebel Hand
● Contact Us
● A guide to online resources for researching family history and genealogy in Ireland and Australia

Other links:

● Blog for A Rebel Hand - latest info about Nicholas and our other ancestors including...

Latest blog posts:
Australia's oldest bridge revisited - in pictures
The Bloggers' Geneameme - my answers
Requiem for Seamus Heaney
Confessions of a 'girl announcer'
Vinegar Hill - the Irish rebels' last stand in 1798
National Family History Month in Australia - and some of my ancestors
What does she confess? A picture mystery
A Rebel Hand blog is in Inside History Magazine's Top 50 genealogy blogs!
The wild boy and the book - a story from Kensington Palace

Recent:
Moyne in the Mercury: The Delaney family farm in the news
The thief up the chimney: Old Bailey Online 10th anniversary
Welsh newspapers online - read all about it!
My first Australian ancestor
Irish Family History Day
On the Twelfth Day of Christmas
Accentuate the positive part two
Happy New Year! Accentuate the positive (geneameme looking back at 2012)
Time to branch out? Start Your Family Tree Week 2012
Merry Christmas to you all
Calling all cousins! Would you like a Delaney descendants' forum?
Two today: The blog for A Rebel Hand is two years old
So was Nicholas Delaney murdered? Did John Kennedy hang? (Trove Tuesday post, part 2)
How did Nicholas Delaney die? A murder mystery (Trove Tuesday post)

Most popular:
Was Sarah Simpson murdered? Is she a famous ghost?
Nicholas's roads - at the heart of Sydney
Making roads for Governor Macquarie
Me, Graham Norton and an infamous massacre
BBC TV's Story of Ireland: 1798

● Further research

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