Petition of Bridget Faraher, Ballinrobe, County Mayo, seeking a free sea passage to New South Wales, Australia

Petition of Bridget Faraher [Faragher], Derrymore, near Ballinrobe, County Mayo, to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, seeking a free sea passage to New South Wales, Australia, for herself and children. Reveals her husband Murtagh Faraher, was brought before the spring assizes at Castlebar and ‘convicted of being concerned in the Ribbon System’; he was tried and transported for life. Petition is marked by Faraher and certificate added beneath by J Ashe [likely Reverend John Ashe, protestant chaplain to County Mayo jail]. [See also reference CSO/RP/1825/389]. 1 item; 2pp