Petition of Rose Mackin, Oldcastle, County Meath, requesting assistance with arrangement and cost of passage to New South Wales, Australia

Petition of Rose Mackin, Oldcastle, County Meath, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, requesting assistance with arrangement and cost of passage to New South Wales, Australia, for herself and 3 children. Recalls her husband George Mackin, was transported for the crime of stealing sheep in 1820. Claims he now holds the position of servant to Captain Platt, an ex naval officer who received government land in New South Wales. Insists her husband has Platt’s support in making the application and he has ‘promising to pay all expenses’ in getting Mackin’s family to Australia. Signed by James O’Reilly, Reverend Thomas Frederick Knipe, Church of Ireland rector of Oldcastle, William Webb, magistrate, and Thomas O’Rorke, curate of Killeagh. 1 item; 3pp