Published by Jane Schy on October 6, 2025

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More About The Sloane Family

This extra information on the Sloane family was provided by Leanne Cutuli, who descends from Peter and Catherine Sloane via Jeremiah Bernard Sloane, the son of Bernard and Margaret Sloane (Rising Sun Hotel, Rosewood). Thank you Leanne.

The arrival of Peter Sloane starts the family’s Australian story.

About Peter SLOANE

Born 1st January 1785, County Down, Northern Ireland
Tried in Antrim 28th July 1825 and sentenced to transportation for life (99 years) for forgery.

Belfast Commercial Chronicle, 30 July 1825.
William Hill and Peter Sloan, for counterfeiting a Scotch bank note, with intent to defraud certain of his Majesty’s subjects.- Prisoners pleaded Guilty; transportation for life.

Ship Regalia. Convicts to be transported on the Regalia were held on the “Essex” hulk in Dublin. The Essex Hulk – CailliTV, Youtube 2023
Regalia departed Dublin 14th March 1826 and arrived Port Jackson 5th August 1826.
Embarked: 130 men Voyage: 142 days Deaths: 1
Conduct on the voyage out very good. See Convict Indent
On arrival: Irish Rebel; Married with five children; Occupation – Cooper; Age 41 years
No place of assignment recorded.
1828 Muster – Peter Sloane’s residence was at the Hyde Park Barracks. See Document.
His wife and family arrived 7 years later in 1833. Family given permission in 1831.

From the Ireland-Australia transportation database at the National Archives.
Full Name: PETER SLOANE
Trial Place: Co Antrim
Document Date: 25/08/1831
Ship: REGALIA 1826
Comment: List of wives and families of convicts in New South Wales who are recommended by the Governor of that colony to be provided with a free passage for the purpose of joining such convicts. Wife, Catherine Lynn, residing at 4 Green St, Belfast.

Obtained Ticket of Leave 18th November 1834. Sent to a work farm called “Invermein Station” near the present day town of Scone in the Hunter River region of New South Wales. He was still there in 1837.
Certificate of Freedom – 29th November 1834 See document
Petitions for Reassignment of Convicts 1838-1839 – 2nd May 1839 See document.
Ticket of Leave 23rd July 1840 See document
1841 Census Index Return No. 29
Peter Sloane – Residence: Town, Muswell Brook. No of persons 3. See document
Conditional Pardon – 5th July 1841 See document.

New South Wales Government Gazette (Sydney, NSW : 1832 – 1900), 16 September, p. 1372.
Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Sydney, I4th September 1842.
PARDONS.
HIS EXCELLENCY the GOVERNOR directs it to be notified, that the Right Honorable the Secretary of State for the Colonies has signified in his Despatch, No. 93, dated 22nd April, 1842, Her Majesty’s gracious approbation and allowance of the Absolute and Conditional Pardons granted to the undermentioned individuals, viz.—
CONDITIONAL PARDONS,
Dated 1st July, 1841.
Henry Sketland or William Thompson, Sophia
Peter Sloane, Regalia
James Smith, Speke 2
Isaac Sofily, Lonach
John Still, Fanny

Peter SLOANE’S wife was Catherine LINNE
Birth: 1796, Belfast, Ireland
Married: 1st December 1814, in Ireland

Catherine and their 4 children immigrated on the Surrey which arrived at Port Jackson 9th March 1833.

Peter and Catherine both passed away in Sydney, New South Wales.

Peter died 11th December 1855, Sydney aged 67 years.
Reg. No. 314/1855 V1855314 120 LA (Roman Catholic, Sydney St James)
Buried 12th December 1855, Devonshire Street Cemetery (Bunnerong Cemetery), Botany, Sydney, NSW

Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 – 1954), Wednesday, 12 December 1855, page 8
FUNERAL.—The Friends of the late Mr. PETER SLOANE are respectfully invited to attend his Funeral THIS (Wednesday) AFTERNOON, at 3 o’clock precisely; the procession to move from his late residence, Brougham-place, Pitt-street North. THOMAS DIXON, Undertaker, South Head-road, and 84 Clarence-street. Sydney, December 12th, 1855.

Catherine died 30th April 1856, Clarence Street, Sydney aged 60 years.
Reg. No. 1765/1856 V18561765 143 LA (Roman Catholic, Sydney St James)
Burial: 2nd May 1856, Devonshire Street Cemetery (Bunnerong Cemetery), Botany, Sydney, NSW
(Re-interred La Perouse)

Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 – 1954), Friday, 2 May 1856, page 8
FUNERAL.—The Friends of the late Mrs. CATHERINE SLOANE are respectfully invited to attend her funeral THIS (Friday) MORNING, at nine o’clock precisely, May 2nd, the procession to move from her late residence, Maitland Hotel, Clarence-street. THOMAS DIXON, undertaker, South Head Road, and 84 Clarence-street.

Peter and Catherine SLOANE’S Children:
1 M: Patrick SLOANE
Birth: ca. 1819, Belfast, Antrim, Northern Ireland

2 M: Charles SLOANE
Birth: ca. 1821, Belfast, Antrim, Northern Ireland
Death: 18th March 1859, at his residence, Brisbane Street, Ipswich, Queensland
Burial: Ipswich General Cemetery
Occupation: Butcher, Carrier
Spouse: Elizabeth Ann GRAY
Baptism: 13th May 1828, St Phillip’s Church of England, Sydney, New South Wales
Marriage: 31st March 1845, Kangaroo Point, New South Wales by Minister, James Hanly
Death: 18th May 1874, Ipswich aged 46 years
Burial: Ipswich General Cemetery

Children:
Jane GRAY/SLOANE c.1844-1910 = 1. William Bacon HARDING 2. Ferdinand Nathan SIMONSON
Patrick Charles SLOANE 1847-1877 = Elizabeth LAMB
William John SLOANE 1847-1918 = Julia RYAN
Mary Elizabeth Hannah SLOANE 1851-1940 = 1. John CANTY 2. Mortimer WATSON

2nd Spouse of Elizabeth Ann SLOANE née GRAY: Thomas Powell LANGFORD
Marriage: 14th June 1860, Queensland

3 M: Bernard SLOANE
Birth: ca. 1823, Belfast, Antrim, Ireland
Death: 25th February 1888, Rosewood, Queensland
Spouse: Mary Ann GALLAGHER (~1821-1857)
2nd Spouse: Margaret DWYER (1823-1907)

4 F: Catherine SLOANE
Birth: ca. 1826, Belfast, Antrim, Northern Ireland

More about Charles SLOANE
Charles was a butcher working with Bernard at Kangaroo Point and they were in business together when they moved to Ipswich.

Leanne says, “Ironically the Mayne Family and their butcher shop were at Kangaroo Point at the same time as the boys worked a butchers in Kangaroo Point.”

There are various articles about Charles. Here are some of them.

Moreton Bay Courier (Brisbane, Qld. : 1846 – 1861), Monday, 28 July 1851, page 1
DRAYTON.
July 19th, 1851- On Thursday night last, about nine o’clock, our usually quiet town was thrown into an uproar, by the intelligence that a well known carrier on the road, of the name of Charles Sloane, had been robbed of upwards of fifty pounds. It seemed that he had that day sold his dray and team of bullocks to Mr. Horton, of the” Bull’s Head” Inn, and as he was rather the worse for liquor, had entrusted the purchase money, fifty five pounds, together with four pounds eighteen shillings additional, to a friend of his, a man named John Noot, a ticket-of-leave holder, per Mountstuart Elphinstone, who keeps a shoe-maker’s shop in Drayton. This man, who has four or five men of the same class living with him, put the money in a tin cash box, which he locked up in a large wooden chest. Having occasion to go out for a short time, when he returned, one of the men, John Freeman, a tailor, calling him out, showed him a shilling, and asked him to go up to Horton’s, as he had something very particular to say to him. He did so, leaving the other men in the hut, and Sloane, who had been asleep all the afternoon, sitting before the fire. Finding that Freeman had nothing to say to him, he was returning to his house, when he met Sloane, who called him on one side, and told him that his suspicions had been aroused by the men whispering and muttering together, and asked him if he had the money in his pocket. He said no, it was in his box. Sloane then told him to run down and see if it was all right. As he was going down he saw one of the men, William Kavender, standing by a stack of slabs, close by Horton’s door. He asked him who was in the hut, and was told that William Ellard was. The two went down together ; nobody was in the hut. Immediately on his entering Noot saw that his box had been opened, and Sloane’s money, together with some papers of his own, and a half sovereign, had been taken out. He then ran up and reported it to our active Chief Constable, who went over and had the whole of the men, by names William Ellard, James Franklin, John Freeman, William Kavender, and Thomas Davis searched. Nothing was found on any of the men except Kavender, on whom was found a half sovereign, which Noot immediately identified as his by a little piece of India rubber that was sticking to it; and a piece of paper, which he also identified. The whole of the men were then conveyed to the lock-up, and a strict search was instituted about the house and premises, and all over the adjoining ground, but nothing was found until past four o’clock in the morning, when, on pulling down the stack of slabs by which Kavender had been standing, Mr. Manley found the whole of the missing money. A Court was held to-day, when, after hearing the evidence, the purport of which is detailed above, the Bench decided on committing the first four named men, and discharging the last (Thomas Davis).

Our Chief Constable has already earned golden opinions during his short residence among us and we are sure that the celebrity with which he traced the perpetrators and the proceeds of this daring robbery will distract nothing from his ……. The whole of the ….. were exiles, with the exception of Ellard, who is an old hand.

Moreton Bay Courier (Brisbane, Qld. : 1846 – 1861), Saturday, 15 November 1851, page 4
William Cavanagh pleaded not guilty to an indictment charging him with having on the 17th July, at Drayton, stolen certain money orders, the property of Charles Sloane, and half a sovereign, the property of John Newt, in the dwelling house of the said John Newt.

Charles Sloane deposed that he was a bullock-driver, residing in Ipswich. Was at Drayton on a Thursday in July last, and received from Mr. Horton cash orders and cheques, to the amount of £55, which he gave to John Newt to take care of. In the evening witness was in Newt’s hut, and saw the prisoner there, also Newt, two men named Ellard and Freeman, and another man — a shoe-maker. Newt went out, and witness observed prisoner and the other men in conversation. The others went out and prisoner remained. Witness went to Mr. Horton’s public house, and remained for half an hour, when he returned with Newt to his house, and found that Newt’s box had been broken open.

John Newt deposed that he was a shoemaker, and resided at Drayton on the 17th of July last, on which day he saw the last witness receive £55, in cheques and orders, from Mr. Horton. He delivered it to witness to take care of, and witness took it home, and put it in a tin cash-box, which he placed in a wooden box, locking the latter. The prisoner, Ellard, Freeman, and another man were present when the money was put in the box. Prisoner had a particularly good opportunity of seeing, as he sat at witness’s right hand. Witness saw the money all right in the box at about four o’clock in the afternoon. Shortly after supper Freeman pressed witness very much to go to Horton’s with him, and have something to drink, as he wished particularly to speak to him. After much solicitation he consented, and was returning when he met Charles Sloane, and returned with him to Horton’s. While there he saw prisoner standing against a stack of slabs, a few yards from the house. Prisoner told witness that Ellard was in the hut. From something that Sloane said, witness had his attention directed to the money, and he returned to the hut with prisoner, and, on looking at the box, found it had been wrenched open, and the money taken out of the cash-box. Witness said, “To be sure you have not ruined me in this way.” Prisoner made no reply, but Ellard, who came in shortly afterwards, said he knew nothing of it. In addition to the orders taken away, there was a half-sovereign, which witness could identify, as he had carried it in his pocket, together with a piece of India-rubber, and some of the India-rubber adhered to the coin. Witness went and informed Mr. Manley, the chief-constable, who came to the hut, and searched witness and the others. The half-sovereign and a piece of paper, with figures on it, in witness’s handwriting, were found in prisoner’s pocket. Witness would be able to identify those articles, and also the orders lost. Witness was sober. Had not paid prisoner any money, nor seen him with any. Witness claimed the half-sovereign when produced, and prisoner made no remarks.

Chief Constable Manley deposed that he apprehended the prisoner on the 17th of July last, at about eight or nine in the evening, in Newt’s hut. Saw the half-sovereign and piece of paper taken from his pocket. Newt claimed the coin, and prisoner told witness that he had received it from Newt, who gave it to him, and promised him £10, to say nothing about the robbery. Next day witness found the whole of the cheques and orders secreted in a stack of slabs, a few yards from Mr. Horton’s house. Witness identified those produced as the same.

John Newt, recalled, identified the orders produced, and also the half-sovereign.

Prisoner, in his defence, stated that, when the constables were searching himself and the others, they placed the articles taken from their pockets on the table together, and made a mistake in supposing that the half-sovereign had been taken from his pocket. He called William Ellard, who deposed that Newt was not drunk when he went to get his dinner, and that he did not know whether or not he left the box open when he went out.

The jury found the prisoner guilty, and the Judge, in remanding him for sentence, remarked upon the fact of his having only recently been at Pentonville, where his punishment should have been a warning to him.

The Moreton Bay Courier (Brisbane, Qld.: 1846 – 1861) Saturday, 6 August 1853, page 3

The Moreton Bay Courier (Brisbane, Qld. : 1846 – 1861) Saturday, 2 September 1854, page 3

Empire (Sydney, NSW : 1850 – 1875), Wednesday 13 December 1854, page 3

BRISBANE CIRCUIT COURT.
(Abridged from the Moreton Bay Courier, November 25.)
Michael Doran was indicted for stealing four yards of cloth, the property of John Sheppard, at Ipswich, on the 20th June. Guilty; six months’ imprisonment.

WOUNDING WITH INTENT.
Michael Doran was again indicted, for wounding one Charles Sloane, at Ipswich, on the 21st September last, with intent to do him some grievous bodily harm. From the evidence of Charles Sloane, it appeared that the prisoner had attacked him at night without provocation, and had inflicted three severe cuts upon his head with some heavy implement like a life-preserver. The wounds bled very much and the prosecutor had to be attended by Dr. Challinor.

The prisoner was found guilty, and sentenced for this offence, to three years’ hard labour on the roads. For larceny, of which he was before convicted, he was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment with hard labour, in Parramatta Goal.

North Australian, Ipswich and General Advertiser (Ipswich, Qld. : 1856 – 1862), Tuesday, 22 July 1856, page 1

North Australian, Ipswich and General Advertiser (Ipswich, Qld. : 1856 – 1862), Tuesday 10 March 1857, page 3

BREACHES OF THE VAGRANT ACT. – At the Police Office on Tuesday, a man named Charles Sloane was brought before the Bench, and pleaded guilty to a charge under the 5th section of this Act, and was fined £1. A second charge against him for assaulting Constable Carson in the execution of his duty was proved , and he was ordered to be incarcarated for seven days.

North Australian, Ipswich and General Advertiser (Ipswich, Qld. : 1856 – 1862), Tuesday 17 March 1857, page 3

OMISSION.- In a paragraph which appeared in our last issue, a person named Charles Sloane, a carrier, was reported to have been incarcerated for seven days, for having obstructed Constable Carson in the execution of his duty. This is a mistake, it should have been reported that Sloane was sentenced to be imprisoned in default of payment of the fine of £1. The amount was paid at the time, and he was immediately discharged.

North Australian, Ipswich and General Advertiser (Ipswich, Qld. : 1856 – 1862), Tuesday, 19 May 1857, page 1

North Australian, Ipswich and General Advertiser (Ipswich, Qld. : 1856 – 1862), Tuesday 1 December 1857, page 4

ILLEGALLY WORKING A HORSE — SPEEDY JUSTICE.
At the Police-Office on Saturday, before the police magistrate and Joseph North. Esq J.P., a bullock driver in the employ of John Moran, a carrier, was brought up charged with illegally working a bay mare, the property of Charles Sloane on Thursday night last.

It appeared from the evidence of John Allicott the ostler at the North Star Hotel, that he missed the mare in question out of the yard on Thursday evening, and also a saddle and bridle out of the harness room, and that he gave information of the circumstance to the owner on the following morning. Having made enquiries, it was ascertained from the Chinese cook that a person answering the description of the prisoner, whose face was “beautifully decorated with cuts,” as the publishers say, had taken the mare out of the yard at about 9 o’clock on Thursday night, which fact was communicated to the chief constable, who promptly despatched constable Devine in pursuit of the thief, accompanied by the ostler.

The prisoner was tracked for a few miles on the Warwick road, and afterwards to the Seven-Mile Creek, where he was found lying down under a dray, the mare feeding in hobbles about 200 yards from the place. The saddle and bridle were lying on the ground near to the prisoner. The delinquent was immediately taken into custody and conveyed to the lock-up. The ostler, the owner of the mare, and the Chinese cook identified the mare outside the court as the one the prisoner took away. The owner also identified the saddle, but could not swear to the bridle, as being his property, and stated that he had not given the prisoner permission to use them.

On being apprehended the prisoner told the constable he would not have committed the offence if he had not been drinking. In his defence he said, that he took the mare intending to bring her back, but that in consequence of his having been thrown, and much bruised, of which accident he informed the Bench his face exhibited proof, he did not do so.

A witness, however, proved that his face was greatly disfigured before he left the town.

The Bench then convicted the prisoner, and the police magistrate, in passing sentence, said that they were determined, if possible, to check and put a stop to offences of this description, which of late had been greatly increased by persons like the prisoner, who seemed to imagine tbey could take other people’s horses for their own use whenever they pleased. They would, however, be severely dealt with in future.

The prisoner was then sentenced to be imprisoned for twelve calendar months, with hard labour, in Brisbane gaol. Great credit is due to the constabulary for the promptitude displayed in bringing this offender to speedy justice, as the system of illegally working horses and bullocks has now become a great nuisance to honest, hardworking people.

North Australian, Ipswich and General Advertiser (Ipswich, Qld. : 1856 – 1862), Tuesday 30 March 1858, page 1

New South Wales Government Gazette Tuesday 12 April 1859 [Issue No.61] page 82

More about Bernard SLOANE
Bernard married Mary Ann Gallagher at St Michael’s, Bathurst, NSW on May 25, 1842. (Fr. Michael Kavanagh)

Children of Bernard & Mary Ann Sloane

1. M. Peter Sloane b. 2 July 1843 in Wellington, near Bathurst, NSW d. 05 May 1923 in Ipswich, Queensland
2. F. Jane Sloane b. 24 July 1844 in Moreton Bay, Queensland d. 27 May 1854 in Ipswich, Queensland
3. M. William Sloane b. 20 May 1845 in Summer Hill, Sydney, NSW d. 25 July 1942, Queensland
4. M. Patrick Sloane b. 24 February 1846 in Summer Hill, Sydney, NSW d. Bet.1856-1872
5. F. Catherine Arabella Sloane b. 3 July 1847 in Summer Hill, Sydney, NSW d. 04 September 1900, Queensland
6. F. Rose Anne Sloane b.18 October 1850 in Brisbane, Queensland d. 13 August 1938 in Augathella, Queensland
7. M. Patrick William Sloane b.15 October 1851 in Ipswich, Queensland d. 6 May 1857 in Queensland
8. F. Jane Ann Sloane b. 29 April 1854 in Ipswich, Queensland d. 18 September 1935 in Sydney, NSW
9. M. Patrick Sloane (2) b. 15 October 1857, Queensland

Bernard married his second wife Margaret Dwyer on 8th August 1859 at St Mary’s Catholic Church, Ipswich. He owned the Sportsman’s Arms Hotel in Dalby before buying the Rising Sun Hotel in Rosewood in 1880.

Children of Bernard & Margaret Sloane

1. M. Jeremiah Bernard Sloane (aka Bernard/Barney) b. 25 May 1863 in Ipswich, Queensland. d. 7 October 1919 in Ipswich, Queensland.
2. F. Mary Ellen Sloane b. 30 November 1865 in Queensland d. 20 October 1948 in Queensland.

A few articles on Bernard in Dalby.

Dalby Herald and Western Queensland Advertiser (Qld. : 1866 – 1879), Saturday 23 January 1869, page 3