Brian Condon: Letters and Documents in 19th Century Australian Catholic History
[Source: Adelaide Archdiocesan Archives copy]
Parramatta
14 September 1820
The Governor has received the Revd Mr Therry's note of this day's date and in reply begs to inform him that he cannot receive such irregular applications from him for marrying Convict men or women. He must therefore make all such applications in the regular prescribed way through Mr Secretary Campbell, once every month, specifying the names of the men and women wishing to be married, their sentences and the names of the ships they came to the Colony in.
[Note: The most extensive collection of transcriptions of Fr Therry's correspondence remains Eris O'Brien's The Foundation of Catholicism in Australia; life and letters of Archpriest John Joseph Therry, Sydney, Angus & Robertson, 1922]