George Nicholas Macquarie Delaney [35514]

  Noted events in his life were:

• Bankruptcy, 1898 Jan 4, New South Wales, Australia. ¹ Bankruptcy Index


Surname FirstName Business Street Address Locality Occupation Date of Sequestration Official Assignee Bankruptcy File No Date Certificate Issued
DELANEYGeorge Nicholas--CurbanContractor04/01/1898-12412-

• Newspaper: BANKRUPTCY COURT, 1898 Feb 9, Dubbo, Gordon County, New South Wales. ² BANKRUPTCY COURT. (1898, February 9). The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate (NSW : 1892 - 1901), p. 2. Retrieved November 4, 2011, from <http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article72502787>

BANKRUPTCY COURT.
MONDAIY, FEB. 7.
(Before Mr. F. P. D. Meares, acting Registrar.)
FIRST MEETING.
Re George Nicholas Delaney, of Curban, drover.
Mr. K. Booth appeared for Arthur F. Salter, a proved creditor. Another creditor named P. Burke appeared.
Bankrupt stated, in reply to Mr. Booth, that he filed his schedule about December 30 ; he admitted the claims of Salter and Burke; had not kept proper books; the official assignee asked for a two years' statement, but he had not supplied one ; the assets were nil, and liabilities £99 16s ; really owed more than that ; probably £10 more ; had been droving during the last two years, and contracting; he accounted for his bankruptcy by bad management; a scrubbing contract had something to do with it; had a contract to ringbark and scrub 4025 for Mr. F. E. Body; got ls 6d an acre ; took the contract on March 25, 1897 ; it was completed about begin-ning of October ; was to get 50 per cent. progress payment as the work went on; owed £11 to Salter at the time he took the contract; had paid that since ; borrowed £30 from Salter at the beginning of the contract ; borrowed altogether £60; paid him £36 back, including the £11 ; still owed him £30 ; got £50 from him after the £11 ; there was £5 for interest ; when he commenced the contract he had a horse, saddle and bridle worth £14 ; sold them before he filed his schedule, after the contract was finished, to Arthur West, for £9 ; had had possession of it since ; it was still in his possession ; West paid by cheque on the Bank of Australasia, and got a receipt ; witness had had the horse, saddle and bridle ever since ; had nothing else when he took the contract but his plant, consisting of tools ; bought them for cash ; sold the plant for £1 ; Mr. Body had paid him in full, £301 17s 6d; be paid £5 extra for meat, making £306 17s 6d ; had kept no books ; was not prepared to show how he had disposed of that money ; could not say to whom he had paid it; produced a balance sheet which had been made up by a book- keeper for him three weeks ago; it was a copy of the last one which was sent, to the official assignee; there wera no dates in it ; paid R. Holl jun., £18 14s 3d at different times ; could not say when the amounts were paid ; none of Hull's accounts were paid after the contract was finished ; J. G, Brown's account, £54 6a 3d, was paid during currency of contract, partly by Mr, Body and partly by witness ; had put on the balance sheet £4 9s for sheep, which he got at the end of the job ; got 80 sheep altogether, 70 at 3s a head, and 7s a head for the others should have put them in the state-ment; did not show the £5 Mr. Body allowed him on the balance-sheet, nor the £9 for the horse, saddle, and bridle ; the £9 did not appear in the first statement, and he thought the money for the sheep did ; had a settle-ment with Mr. Body when the con- tract was finished, and received £54 14s 9d ; had no other money then ; had paid away the money he had received with the £54 14s 9d he had paid the men working for him 10s in the £ ; he called a meeting of his creditors through Mr. M'Guinn: gave him £44 and he paid some of the men named on the balance sheet ; Mr. M'Guinn paid Burke £3 3s 3d, and he is still owed a similar amount ; Mr. M'Guinn paid £28 16s 9d; the amounts paid are correct except G. M'Quade's, which is £1 2s, but should be £10 11s 3d had already paid him £23 16s 4d ; the total amount he owed M'Quade was £24 18s 4d ; witness gave him £5 after the contract was completed.
The court adjourned for lunch.
On resuming, Mr. C. H. Fitz- Gerald appeared for bankrupt.
To Mr. Booth bankrupt said the total amount he owed M'Quade was £23 16s 4d,-paid him £11 16s 2d, and M'Guinn paid him £11 18s 21, leaving a balance of £1 2s; he only paid half the amounts to the other men ; they were working by the week -£1 a week and tucker; the gangers got 22s 6d a week ; paid M'Quade in full all but £1 2s, after the contract was finished ; could not say how much he got back from M'Guinn ; would swear he did not get £10; be paid away £28 16s 9d ; there was a difference between witness and M'Guinn of £15, as he gave him £41; got two cheques from Mr. Body-one for £44 15s, the other for £10; gave the former to Mr. M'Guinn, who gave witness particulars of the amounts he paid away, but the paper was at Curban ; Salter got notice of the meeting of creditors; " A Meek, £24 13s 4d," was paid in full before the contract was finished; " Carlson, £24 4s 4d," was also paid in full, in cash, which witness got from Mr. Body ; got several cheques from Mr. Body, but had kept no list of them ; "Reynolds, £12 15s," was paid at different times ; the debts to the storekeepers were incurred during the contract ; had a previous contract for Mr. Holmes and made nothing out of it. ; knew James Lawson, who had owed him £4 10s, and paid him three or four weeks ago-in November ; be at first owed witness about £16; did not put that £4 10s in the statement of affairs; had promised to pay all his creditors ; left the contract and went shearing while it was going on ; could see he was going down ou it, and wanted to make some money; had a small contract now running-300 acres at £1 6d; was overdrawn on that; had paid no other money ; Mr. Body was to be answerable for money lent to bankrupt by Mr, Fitz-Gerald ; Mr. Body paid Mr. Fitz-Gerald £75 out of the contract-one £30 since the contract was finished, £30 before, and £15 was still due; gave Mr. Filz- Gerald orders on Mr. Body ; asked Mr. Body not to pay the £15 order ; John Delaney had a contract at the same time as bankrupt ; did not try to make a bogus sale of the horse, bridle and saddle, since he filed his schedule, with Mr. Wilkinson.
In reply to Mr. Burke, a creditor, bankrupt said M'Quade got £11 18s from Mr. M'Guinn ; got a cheque from Mr, M'Guinn for what remained after he paid the men, but could not any if it was £9 odd ; remembered when Burke went to him at Com-boogle for his wages ; witness did not remember the answer he gave-he might have said he would bare to "go through" if summoned; did not remember saying he got £15 for the chestnut horse.
The first meeting was declared closed.
The second meeting was then held, the usual questions asked, and the examination declared closed.

• Registration: Death, 1950, Newtown District, New South Wales, Australia. ³ 15748/1950
DELANEY.GEORGE NICHOLAS
HENRY
HARRIET
NEWTOWN

• Newspaper: Family Notices, 1950 Aug 7, Sydney District, New South Wales, Australia. ⁴ Family Notices. (1950, August 7). The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), p. 14. Retrieved November 4, 2011, from<http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article18174686>

DELANEY George Nicholas Mac-quarie -August 6 ,1950 at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, relict of the late Made-line Delaney and dear father of Mildred (Mrs. Wheatley), Stanley, Hazel (Mrs. Pearson), and Madge (Mrs. Velmin) aged 91 years. Dubbo papers please copy.

• Newspaper: Family Notices, 1950 Aug 8, Sydney District, New South Wales, Australia. ⁵ Family Notices. (1950, August 8). The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), p. 20. Retrieved November 4, 2011, from<http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article18183255>
DELANEY -The Relatives and Friends of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Wheatley, Mr. and Mrs. S. Delaney, Mr. and Mrs. S. Pearson, and Mrs. M. Velmin and Families are kindly invited to attend the Funeral of their dear Father, Grand-father and Great-grandfather, GEORGE N. M. DELANEY to leave St Joseph's Church, Bedford Street, Newtown, To-morrow (Wednesday), at 9.15 a.m., for Rookwood Cemetery.
JOHN E. WHEATLEY. MA4589.

George married Georgina Madeline Albert Lawson [15759] [MRIN: 13422], daughter of James Lawson [8715] and Susannah Blackman [819], in 1898 in Dubbo District, New South Wales. (Georgina Madeline Albert Lawson [15759] was born in 1873 in Bathurst, Bathurst County, New South Wales,⁶ died on 1949 Jul 4 in Portland District, New South Wales, Australia and was buried on 1949 Jul 7 in Rookwood Cemetery, Cumberland County, New South Wales, Australia.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Registration: Marriage, 1898, Dubbo Cemetery, Gordon County, New South Wales, Australia. ⁷ 940/1898
DELANEY, GEORGE N
LAWSON, GEORGINA M A
DUBBO