Having been abandoned by Government towards the end of 1802, the possibility of establishing valuable commercial enterprise coupled with a desire to remove the worst of the Irish insurgents from Sydney district in the aftermath of the Rebellion at Castle Hill, encouraged Governor King to re-settle Coal River.
Thomas Desmond arrived at Port Jackson on the Atlas in 1802. He made many attempts at escape from the settlement;
Cornelius Dwyer arrived at Port Jackson on the Atlas in 1802;
Phillip Dwyer arrived on the Sugar Cane in 1793. He was not sent with the rebels in March, but early in April 1804 for violently and inhumanely beating Mary Carroll;
John Griffin arrived on the Anne on 21 February 1801;
John Hughes alias John McCarthy arrived on the Glatton in 1803;
Matthew Lee arrived in Port Jackson on the Boddingtons in 1793;
Cornelius Lyons arrived on the Rolla in 1803. One of the leaders of the Castle Hill rebellion. Received 200 lashes for his part;
William Maughan alias Maum arrived on the Minerva in 1800. He was an associate of Joseph Holt and employed as a school teacher before being sent to the river;
Florence McCarty arrived on the Minerva in 1800. He was an Irish patriot and very active in politics in Ireland;
Bryan McCormick arrived on the Atlas in 1802. Sentenced to be hanged for his part in the rebellion but later reprieved;
Owen McDermott arrived on the Atlas on 30 October 1802. He was an active participant in the rebellion. Sentenced to 200 lashes and sent to the Coal River;
Bryan Riley arrived on the Boddingtons in 1793. Severely punished for an escape attempt at Coal river in May 1804. Later became a constable at Parramatta;
Martin Short arrived on the Minerva in 1800 and was an active participant in the revolt;
Neil Smith or Smythe arrived on the Atlas in 1802. Severely punished for his part in the rebellion at Castle Hill and later punished again when he attempted to escape from Newcastle;
Bryan Spalding arrived on the Britannia in 1797 and was active in the rebellion at Castle Hill;
Andrew Tiernan arrived on the Atlas in 1802. Severely punished for planning to murder Lieutenant Menzies at Newcastle in 1804;
Joseph Brayley/ Brearly per Earl Cornwallis, a miner by trade, was apprehended at Kissing Point upon a suspicion of burglary was examined and as the evidence though strongly presumptive was not thought sufficient to continue the grounds of prosecution, he was drafted for Newcastle as was Philip Dwyer per Sugar Cane also, for violently and inhumanely beating Mary Carroll. They were both sent to Newcastle in April 1804.
More about many of these convicts and the rebellion at Castle Hill can be found in Jack Delaney's 'Newcastle, Its First Twenty Years: The Irish Rebellion and the Settlement of Newcastle 1804' (ISBN - 646 43855- 7)
and
Lynette Ramsay-Silver, Australia's Irish Rebellion: The Battle of Vinegar Hill, 1804, Watermark Press, Sydney, 2002 (first printed 1983); ISBN 0 94928 461 0