1. Patrick Daley, known informally as 'Patsy' Daley, was a 19th-century Australian bushranger.
32 Facts About Patrick Daley
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Patrick Daley was captured in March 1863 and sentenced to fifteen years hard labour.
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Patrick Daley married and settled in the Cobar district, becoming a successful businessman and hotel-owner.
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Patrick Bernard Daley was born on 6 July 1844 in the Black Range, south of Marengo, the son of John Daley and Ellen.
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Patsy Patrick Daley grew up in close proximity with his older cousin, John O'Meally.
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In June 1860 John O'Meally's father, Patrick Daley, was granted a publicans' license for the Weddin Mount Inn, built beside Emu Creek on the 'Arramagong' run.
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In June 1861 O'Meally placed the property, including stock and buildings, up for auction and Patrick Daley discovered the lease was held in O'Meally's name only.
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Whether or not Patsy Patrick Daley was involved in criminal activities at this stage is not known, but he was certainly associating with his cousin, who had already joined with Gardiner in committing robberies.
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From early 1863 Patsy Patrick Daley, attracted to the romance and excitement of the bushranging life, began to join O'Meally and his fellow bushrangers in undertaking robberies in the Lambing Flat district.
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Patsy Patrick Daley was later identified as one of the three who robbed Colley.
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On Saturday morning, 7 February 1863, Ben Hall and Patsy Patrick Daley broke into the unattended Pinnacle Police Station and stole a rifle, a carbine, ammunition, a pair of saddlebags and a bridle, and articles of clothing.
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On 28 February 1863 Norton and Tracker Billy Dargin were on patrol in pursuit of the bushrangers Hall, O'Meally and Patrick Daley; they had arranged to meet ten police troopers at the foot of Wheogo Mountain, north-west of Grenfell, but through a misunderstanding the meeting did not eventuate.
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When Hall and Patrick Daley returned to their prisoner, it was found that Norton had been mistaken for Trooper Hollister who, it was claimed, "had threatened to shoot Ben Hall".
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Patrick Daley climbed the ladder of the sixty-foot shaft and was taken into custody, identified by Dargin as one of those who had fired at Norton and himself ten days previously.
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Patsy Patrick Daley was described as "a mild, youthful, whiskerless looking person, with light blue eyes and fair complexion", with nothing in his outward "physiognomical expression to denote the degraded villain".
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On 2 April 1863 Patrick Daley was taken under guard by coach to Young and lodged in the lock-up there.
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Patrick Daley was immediately recognised by Dickenson from amongst eight other prisoners.
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Patrick Daley was tried in the Goulburn Assizes on 23 September 1863 before Chief Justice Alfred Stephen, charged with the armed robbery and assault of George Dickenson on 2 February at Spring Creek in company with "other persons unknown".
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Patrick Daley pleaded not guilty; his defence relied on a technical point that during the robbery Dickenson was being held at gunpoint outside the premises and so the circumstances "only amounted to stealing from a dwelling".
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Patrick Daley received a sentence of ten years hard labour on the roads, the first year to be held in irons.
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Patrick Daley was initially sent to Darlinghurst Gaol, but by February 1864 he had been transferred to the Cockatoo Island Penal Establishment.
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Patrick Daley was finally discharged on 15 October 1873 upon receiving a remittance of his sentence.
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From April 1895 Patrick Daley was the successful tenderer of a five-year lease of the Booroomugga Tank, a public watering place, east of Cobar on the road to Nyngan.
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From 1899 the Family Hotel at Wrightville, near Cobar, was being run by the publican, William J Kelly; Patrick Daley possibly owned the hotel.
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In July 1904 Patrick Daley was elected as an alderman of the Wrightville Municipal Council.
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In 1905 Patrick Daley was referred to as the Cobar-Wrightville mail contractor.
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In January 1911 Patrick Daley purchased the Terminus Hotel, on the corner of Linsley and Bradley streets in Cobar.
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Patrick Daley died on 29 April 1914 at his sister's residence in Glebe.
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Patrick Daley had been in ill-health "for some months", being treated at the Cobar Hospital and later in Sydney.
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Patrick Daley left the Family Hotel at Wrightville and mining shares to his brother William, cottages to his two daughters, and the remainder to his wife.
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William and Mary Patrick Daley purchased the Sunbeam Hotel in Surrey Hills.
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Mary Patrick Daley died in August 1922 of cancer and was buried in the Rookwood cemetery with her first husband.