Michael Lawler
"Official form on blue paper - evidence - Michael Lawler, sergeant major police, 17 October 1854, p.1, PROV, VPRS5527/P0 Unit 1, Item 80
Be it remembered, that on 20th day of October in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty four Michael Lawler of Ballarat in the Colony of Victoria Sergeant Major Police personally came before me one of Her Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the said Colony, and acknowledged himself to owe to our Sovereign Lady the Queen the sum of one hundred pounds, of good lawful money of Great Britain, to be made and levied of the goods and chattels, lands and tenements, in the use of our said Lady the Queen, her Heirs and Successors, if the said Michael Lawler shall fail in the condition indorsed.
Taken and acknowledged the day and year of your first above mentioned at Ballarat in the said Colony before me
J. Johnston George Webster JP
Be it remembered, that on 20th day of October in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty four Michael Lawler of Ballarat in the Colony of Victoria Sergeant Major Police personally came before me one of Her Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the said Colony, and acknowledged himself to owe to our Sovereign Lady the Queen the sum of one hundred pounds, of good lawful money of Great Britain, to be made and levied of the goods and chattels, lands and tenements, in the use of our said Lady the Queen, her Heirs and Successors, if the said Michael Lawler shall fail in the condition indorsed.
Taken and acknowledged the day and year of your first above mentioned at Ballarat in the said Colony before me
J. Johnston George Webster JP
"Official form on blue paper - evidence - Michael Lawler, sergeant major police, 17 October 1854, p.2, PROV, VPRS5527/P0 Unit 1, Item 80 The condition of the within written Recognance is such, That Whereas Andrew McIntyre was the 17 day of Oct 1854 at Ballarat in the Colony aforesaid, was concerned in the riot at the Eureka Hotel it therefore be the said Michael Lawler shall appear at the Circuit Court to be holden at Geelong in and for the Colony of Victoria, on the 26 day of Oct A.D., 1854, and there give such evidence as he knoweth upon an information to be then and there preferred against the said Andrew McIntyre for the offence aforesaid, as the Jurors who shall pass upon the trial of the said Andrew McIntrye then the said Recognizance to be void or else stand in full force and virtue.
Contents
Background
Goldfields Involvement, 1854
Michael Lawler was a policeman who is thought to have shot Peter Lalor in the arm. [1]
Post 1854 Experiences
See also
Further Reading
Blake, Gregory, To Pierce the Tyrant's Heart,Australian Military History Publications, 2009.
References
- ↑ Corfield, J., Wickham, D., & Gervasoni, C. The Eureka Encyclopaedia, Ballarat Heritage Services, 2004.
External links
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