Profile:
Martin LAWLOR
(1796 - ?)Personal servant to Lachlan Macquarie.
Arrived on the convict transport Earl St. Vincent on 16 December 1818. Convicted in Kilkenny County, Ireland in March 1818 and sentenced to seven years transportation to NSW. His convict indent papers list his age as 22 and his trade as a servant and fiddler.
He petitioned for the mitigation of his sentence in 1821 and successfully received an Absolute Pardon on 28 November 1821 at the same time as fellow Macquarie family servant James Wait.
There is a strong possibility that the 'Martin' mentioned in Macquarie's journal of his tour of inspection to Port Macquarie and Newcastle in November 1821, as part of his 'establishment of servants', was in fact Martin Lawlor (acting as 'assistant cook'); Macquarie mentions in the same context 'Joseph the coachman' who was in fact Joseph Bigg.
REFERENCES
Primary Sources:
Principal Superintendent of Convicts. Bound Indents 1818 -1819 (4/4006) p.176.
Colonial Secretary.Register of Absolute Pardons and Registers of Recommendations for Absolute Pardons 1791 - 1843 [AO Reel 800: 28 November 1821].
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