Timothy Poor (Power) a "Yoeman" of Dirrelossary, a village near Roundwood, Co. Wicklow, IRELAND, circa early/mid 1700s.
"The only known branches of the (Poor) family that may have been in Wicklow at the time...were the descendants of Major Roger Power, cousin of the baron of Donoyle. Roger was granted lands in the county, (c.) 1660, during the reign of Charles II, when a limited number of disinherited loyalists to the Stuart regime, both Catholic and Protestant, were restored to their ancestral estates". William A. Power 1996.
Morgan (the convict). Born Dirrelossary around 1760. Probably christened Mawgan in honour of Saint Mawgan or MAain. Trained as a Cattle Doctor.
According to 'General' Joseph Holt who was at his trial: "In the spring of 1796 hew bought 26 sheep off a man that he could not have known that well. The sheep had been stolen."
Morgan was convicted in Wicklow of buying 26 sheep which had been stolen and was sentenced to death. The sentence was commuted to transportation for life with seven years to be served in hard labour. He was sent to prison in County Cork to await transportation to New South wales.
On December 10th 1796 he embarked on HMS Brittania which arrived in NSW on the 17th May, 1797.
The male convicts on the Brittania were dispersed to the Government Farms at Toongabbie. Morgan was assigned to a medical man (possibly the Surgeon General Jamieson).
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