Petition of Elenor Gold, Athlone, County Westmeath, requesting permission to accompany her convict husband to the land of his transportation

Petition of Elenor Gold, Athlone, County Westmeath, to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, requesting permission to accompany her convict husband to the land of his transportation [New South Wales, Australia]. States he was sentenced to transportation at the assizes of County Roscommon for his involvement in a riot ‘in which a man was murdered’. Appeals for assistance since she is left with responsibility for 8 children without any income for their support. Signed by the sovereign of Athlone. 1 item; 2pp