CROWLEY

Michael Crowley was born on 21 March 1830 in Lancashire. He arrived in Australia in February 1835 with his father Patrick who was a soldier and his mother Mary. 

Michael married Sarah Bradmore on 9 July 1855 at Westbury, Tasmania. Sarah was the daughter of a convict. They had 8 children with the last 4 being born in Gulgong:

• Henry - born 1873
• Louis Michael - born 1875
• Letitia C - born 1878
• Albert Edward - born 1880

Michael Crowley died at Gundagai in 1884. 

Michael and Sarah's eldest daughter, Ellen Crowley, married George Hutchinson at Gulgong in 1880. George was the son of William Hutchinson and Catherine MacKenzie. William Hutchinson arrived in what was then known as the Mudgee district in 1842 and died at Gulgong in 1880.

Source: Christine Martin

FAMILY NOTICES

1892 - Marriages. FORSYTH—CROWLEY.

March 23, 1892, at Rosewall, Willoughby, by the Rev. T. R. McMichael, John D., second son of T. T. Forsyth, J. P., to Elizabeth Christina, second daughter of the late Michael Crowley. Gulgong.

Source: The Australian Star (Sydney, NSW : 1887 - 1909) Sat 20 Aug 1892 Page 1

NEWS ITEMS

Michael Crowley wrote a number of letters to newspapers in the 1870s about the administration of mining regulations and the "frontage system" or "nuisance" as he called it, that continued on the Gulgong goldfield long after it had been gotten rid of elsewhere.

• SEPTEMBER 1872
  Source: Australian Town and Country Journal (Sydney, NSW : 1870 - 1919) Sat 28 Sep 1872 Page 15

• SEPTEMBER 1873
Source: The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser (NSW : 1871 - 1912) Sat 13 Sep 1873 Page 343

• OCTOBER 1874
  Source: Australian Town and Country Journal (Sydney, NSW : 1870 - 1919) Sat 24 Oct 1874 Page 19

• JANUARY 1874
• Source: 
The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser (NSW : 1871 - 1912) Sat 24 Jan 1874 Page 128

• DECEMBER 1874 

Source: Australian Town and Country Journal (Sydney, NSW : 1870 - 1919) Sat 5 Dec 1874 Page 20

• OCTOBER 1875

Source: Australian Town and Country Journal (Sydney, NSW : 1870 - 1919) Sat 23 Oct 1875 Page 19

• NOVEMBER 1875

Source: Australian Town and Country Journal (Sydney, NSW : 1870 - 1919) Sat 13 Nov 1875 Page 19

• JUNE 1876

Source :Australian Town and Country Journal (Sydney, NSW : 1870 - 1919) Sat 10 Jun 1876 Page 19

• JULY 1876

Source: Australian Town and Country Journal (Sydney, NSW : 1870 - 1919) Sat 8 Jul 1876 Page 18

• SEPTEMBER 1876

Source:  Australian Town and Country Journal (Sydney, NSW : 1870 - 1919) Sat 9 Sep 1876 Page 19

• JANUARY 1880 

Source: Australian Town and Country Journal (Sydney, NSW : 1870 - 1919) Sat 24 Jan 1880 Page 22