Petition of Anne Hughes, Dublin, requesting permission for herself and children to accompany her husband to New South Wales

Petition of Anne Hughes, 115 James Street, Dublin, to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, requesting permission for herself and children to accompany her husband to New South Wales, Australia. Reveals her husband, William Hughes, was tried and sentenced to transportation for 7 years, having been found guilty of stealing £2 7s from his employer, with whom he was engaged as land steward at Clonmel, in County Tipperary; notes that prior to this he operated a family milling concern at Maynooth, County Kildare. Reproduces on base a list of those who added their names in support of an earlier memorial seeking relief, including Richard Manders of Mountjoy Square, Dublin, and 8 others. 1 item; 3pp