Edward EAGAR

1787 - 1866  (79 years)

• Name	Edward EAGAR
  Born	1787	Killarney, Ireland
  Gender	Male
  Criminal	1804
  	Uttering a forged bill.
  	In 1804 Eagar was apprenticed to a solicitor and subsequently admitted as a solicitor and attorney in Dublin, but in 1809 he was sentenced to death at the Cork Summer Assizes for uttering a forged bill. Possibly as a result of family influence or his spectacular death-cell conversion his sentence was commuted to transportation for life. He arrived in Sydney in the Providence in July 1811. Source: Australian Dictionary of Biography
  Emigration	1811	Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
  	In 1804 Eagar was apprenticed to a solicitor and subsequently admitted as a solicitor and attorney in Dublin, but in 1809 he was sentenced to death at the Cork Summer Assizes for uttering a forged bill. Possibly as a result of family influence or his spectacular death-cell conversion his sentence was commuted to transportation for life. He arrived in Sydney in the Providence in July 1811. Source: Australian Dictionary of Biography
  Immigration	1821	New South Wales, Australia
  	Returned to England 1821 to represent the emancipated convicts before the British Parliament. Prominent colonial champion for civil liberty.  A book by Kevin Lewis Smith,  Colonial Litigant Extraordinaire,  relates his story.
  Living	18 Aug 1824	St Pancras, Middlesex
  Occupation	18 Aug 1824
  	Merchant
  Occupation	1841
  	Accountant
  Census	1 Jun 1841	14 Warren Street, Clerkenwell, Middlesex
  Occupation	7 Oct 1847
  	Gentleman
  Living	1 Nov 1848	Kings Rows, Clerkenwell, Middlesex
  Occupation	1 Nov 1848
  	Gentleman
  Occupation	1851
  	Solicitor's Managing Clerk
  Census	1 Apr 1851	6 Kings Row, St James, Clerkenwell, Middlesex
  Occupation	1861
  	Solicitor
  Census	1 Apr 1861	25 Michael's Place, Kensington, Middlesex
  Misc	Royal Australian Historical Society
  		The Emancipists, Edward Eagar and the Struggle for Civil Liberties RAHS Journal
  Misc	1866
  	Entry in Australian Dictionary of Biography
  Died	2 Nov 1866	Kensington, Middlesex
  Person ID	I2986	1. Essex Ennevers
  Last Modified	23 Feb 2019

  
  

  Father	Richard EAGAR
  Mother	Frances UNKNOWN
  Family ID	F1854	Family Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family (spouse) 1	Jemima MCDUEL,   Born:  1796, New South Wales, Australia
  Married	1815	St Philip's Church, Church Hill, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
  Children	1. Richard Edward EAGAR,   Born:  1816, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia ,   Died:  1866, At sea  (Age 50 years)   2. Geoffrey EAGAR,   Born:  1818, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia ,   Died:  12 Sep 1891  (Age 73 years)   3. Frances EAGAR,   Born:  Abt 1821, New South Wales, Australia   4. Edward EGAR,   Born:  1821, New South Wales, Australia
  Family histories		Edward Eagar (1787-1866) Convict, lawyer & merchant
  		Geoffrey Eagar (1818-1891) Accountant, banker, politician and public servant
  		Marriages to a closely-related family member (including to a dead spouse's sibling and a dead sibling's spouse and some bigamous and other illegal marriages)
  Family ID	F1850	Family Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family (spouse) 2	Ellen Gormon MOONEY,   Born:  1806, Holborn, Middlesex ,   Died:  8 Jan 1870, Glebe, New South Wales, Australia  (Age 64 years)
  Children	1. Nicholas Henry EAGAR,   Born:  12 Feb 1824,   Died:  24 Aug 1872, Gladesville Hospital, New South Wales, Australia  (Age 48 years)   2. William EAGAR,   Born:  31 Dec 1825, Middlesex   3. Ellen Mary EAGAR,   Born:  12 Feb 1827, Middlesex   4. Edward Richard EAGAR,   Born:  20 Sep 1832, Middlesex   5. Sidney Cooper EAGAR,   Born:  4 Dec 1833, St Pancras, Middlesex   6. Minnie EAGAR,   Born:  1835/6, St Pancras, Middlesex   7. Francis EAGAR,   Born:  25 Mar 1837   8. Bessie Alice EAGAR,   Born:  14 Jun 1838, Holborn, Middlesex   9. Elizabeth H EAGAR,   Born:  1837/8, Middlesex   10. Frank Alexander Matthew EAGAR,   Born:  6 Nov 1844, Clerkenwell, Middlesex ,   Died:  27 Jul 1911, Glebe, New South Wales, Australia  (Age 66 years)
  Family histories		Edward Eagar (1787-1866) Convict, lawyer & merchant
  		Geoffrey Eagar (1818-1891) Accountant, banker, politician and public servant
  		Marriages to a closely-related family member (including to a dead spouse's sibling and a dead sibling's spouse and some bigamous and other illegal marriages)
  Family ID	F906	Family Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Born - 1787 - Killarney, Ireland Emigration - 1811 - Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Married - 1815 - St Philip's Church, Church Hill, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Immigration - 1821 - New South Wales, Australia Living - 18 Aug 1824 - St Pancras, Middlesex Census - 1 Jun 1841 - 14 Warren Street, Clerkenwell, Middlesex Living - 1 Nov 1848 - Kings Rows, Clerkenwell, Middlesex Census - 1 Apr 1851 - 6 Kings Row, St James, Clerkenwell, Middlesex Census - 1 Apr 1861 - 25 Michael's Place, Kensington, Middlesex Died - 2 Nov 1866 - Kensington, Middlesex  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Photographs

  Edward Eagar State Library of NSW

  
  

  Family histories		Criminals and law-breakers in the Ennever and associated families A list of all known family law-breakers and their crimes
  		Well-known family members All family members who I have found featured in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography or its Australian equivalent, Who's Who 2008 or with an obituary in The Times.