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 tree

● 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

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● Blog for A Rebel Hand

Latest:
Would you like to start genealogy blogging?
My ancestor was from London - where do I start? Tips, pix, hints and links
Some happy finds
The Factory above the Gaol – women convicts in 1818
What did Mary do on Monday? Women’s work

Recent:
The cook, the thieves, the prostitute and the postillion – convicts transported to Australia
Australia Day challenge 2012 - Wealth for Toil
Family myths and cover-ups - what did Nicholas Delaney do?
What else was happening in Australia? Timeline 1803 - 1809
Did Nicholas build the oldest bridge in Australia?

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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

__Nicholas Delaney - Hero or Villain?

1798 pikeman, Wexford, from A Rebel Hand: Nicholas Delaney of 1798
1798 pikeman, Wexford
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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, 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.

Now 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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