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father: Thos. Townsend
mother: Frances
Name Thomas Townsend
Gender Male
Christening Date 29 Mar 1752
Christening Place CLIFTON UPON DUNSMORE,WARWICK,ENGLAND
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Father's Name Thos. Townsend
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Mother's Name Frances
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Indexing Project (Batch) Number C04190-1
System Origin England-ODM
GS Film number 548387
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father: Thos Townsend
mother: Frances
Name Thomas Townsend
Event Type Christening
Event Date 29 Mar 1752
Event Place Clifton-upon-Dunsmore, Warwickshire, England
Gender Male
Age
Marital Status
Father's Name Thos Townsend
Mother's Name Frances
Spouse's Name
Spouse's Marital Status
Spouse's Father's Name
Spouse's Mother's Name
GS Film number 548387
Digital Folder Number 4290805
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Community Contributions
D Wong on 9th October, 2013 wrote:
Bernard Barry (Barney) Mahony was 14 years old on arrival in NSW.
Barney was 4’7 1/2” tall, ruddy freckled pitted complexion, light brown hair, grey eyes, can read slightly, cannot write.
Assigned to William Lawson Jnr., at Macquarie Plains near Bathurst.
20/9/1836: COF
6/4/1842: Married Catherine McCarthy at St Mary’s, Sydney. Catherine arrived free. They had 9 children.
Lived in the Bathurst district for the rest of his life and worked as a tinsmith, a bootmaker and also a hotel keeper, he also operated a hardware store and was listed as a General Dealer.
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The Battle of Barnet was a decisive engagement in the Wars of the Roses, a dynastic conflict of 15th-century England. The military action, along with the subsequent Battle of Tewkesbury, secured the throne for Edward IV. On 14 April 1471 near Barnet, then a small town north of London, Edward led the House of York in a fight against the House of Lancaster, which backed Henry VI for the throne. Leading the Lancastrian army was Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, who played a crucial role in the fate of each king. Historians regard the battle as one of the most important clashes in the Wars of the Roses, since it brought about a decisive turn in the fortunes of the two houses. Edward's victory was followed by fourteen years of Yorkist rule over England.
Formerly a key figure in the Yorkist cause, Warwick defected to the Lancastrians over disagreements about Edward's nepotism, secret marriage, and foreign policy. Leading a Lancastrian army, the earl defeated his former allies, forcing Edward to flee to Burgundy. The Yorkist king persuaded his host, Charles the Bold, to help him regain the English throne. Leading an army raised with Burgundian money, Edward launched his invasion of England, which culminated at the fields north of Barnet. Under cover of darkness, the Yorkists moved close to the Lancastrians, and clashed in a thick fog at dawn. While the main forces struggled in battle, John de Vere, 13th Earl of Oxford and his Lancastrian troops routed the Yorkists under Lord William Hastings, chasing them up to Barnet. On their return to the battlefield, Oxford's men were erroneously shot at by his allies commanded by John Neville, 1st Marquess of Montagu. The Lancastrians lost the battle as cries of treason spread through their line, disrupting morale and causing many to abandon the fight. While retreating, Warwick was killed by Yorkist soldiers.
[from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Barnet]
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Battle of Dupplin Moor, (Aug. 12, 1332), battle fought about 7 miles (11 km) southeast of Perth, Perthshire, a victory for Edward de Balliol, a claimant to the Scottish throne, over forces led by Donald, earl of Mar, regent for the young King David II. Secretly encouraged by King Edward III of England, Balliol and other knights who had been disinherited by David’s father, Robert I the Bruce, landed at Kinghorn in Fifeshire, where they routed the local troops. They marched to Dunfermline and then northward and, reaching the River Eann, forded it on the night of August 11-12. Dawn revealed the main Scottish force arrayed in two divisions ready to attack. Greatly outnumbered, Balliol adopted tactics later copied by Edward III at the Battles of Halidon Hill (1333) and Crécy (1346); most of his men at arms dismounted, while archers were posted at either flank. When the first Scottish division charged, flights of arrows drove its flanks in upon its centre. The charge of the second division failed to renew the Scottish momentum, and their men trod one another underfoot, more dying by suffocation than by the sword. Pursuing the fugitives, Balliol’s men entered Perth, and he was crowned king at Scone the next month. Although King David temporarily left the country, Balliol never received widespread recognition. In 1339 he lost Perth, and in 1356 he resigned his kingdom to Edward III.