Possibly the swiftest route to your roots.
Irish genealogy website directory.
rebelhand.weebly.com/
Description:
Nicholas Delaney: Irish rebel in 1798, transported convict, Australian roadbuilder, innkeeper, farmer and ancestor. Our descent from Nicholas. By his great-great-great-granddaughter. As a young man living on the borders of Wicklow and Wexford in the east of Ireland, Nicholas Delaney was caught up in the violent events of the Irish Rebellion of 1798. After the rebels were defeated, he was tried and convicted of murder on the word of a notorious informer, Biddy Dolan. Sentenced to death, he was reprieved and sent as a convict to New South Wales.
