John Skelly, Convict "Lady McNaughten" 1835

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(Research):John Skelly being a convict (named Scally) from Kings County. <p></p> <p>His wife Mary Brown Skelly also arrived in 1835 in the first Bounty ship The Canton; she arrived before her husband but the Canton was placed in quarantine for approx 11 days. <p>I am sure they soon connected, and he was assigned to Francis Lawlis (Lawless) of "Yellongla", 7 miles south west of Gunning. They had a son John who was baptised at this property 1836 or 1838 (records differ). <p>Mary died in 1857, and is shown on cemetery records, as she is buried in the Gunning Catholic Cemetery - the tombstone is excellent and clear probably due to the fact that Mary's Irish born daughter, Elizabeth buried her husband James Smith in the same plot in 1876, and I guess the headstone was renewed or replaced. <p>John Skelly remarried in 1858, to Mary Ann (real name Margaret Foley,b 1836 at the Bathurst Female Factory, daughter of 2 convicts John Foley & Sarah Ann Bryant Foley, (however she used Vouckes as her surname at her marriage - this is an ongoing mystery). Their first son was Francis born in 1861 after John and Mary Ann had moved to Binda.