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Thomas Bailey was transported on the Rolla, departing 4th Nov 1802 and arriving 12th May 1803 with 161 passengers.
On Thursday arrived the Ship Rolla, Captain John Cummings, from Ireland, with Prisoners of both sexes, viz. 119 Men and 37 Women: Seven of whom died on the passage; and the day after her arrival landed some of those who were weakly, at the General Hospital. She left Ireland the 4th of November, arrived at Rio de Janeiro on the 15th of January, sailed from thence the 6th of February, and in 95 days after came to an anchor in Port Jackson. During the latter part of the passage she experienced much bad weather; in the course of which, she sprung her main?mast and carried away her main?yard. She brings, for the use of Government, 234 pieces of Pork, 686 Casks of Flour, and 11 Tons of Sugar. Sydney Gazette, 15 May 1803.
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| Primary Source | Irish Convict Database by Peter Mayberry. Colonial secretary Index. |
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Irish Convict Database by Peter Mayberry. Thomas Bailey, alias Bayley, Baley, per Rolla (1803), Tried at Naas Kildare Co., 1801. 7 years. ---------------------------------------------------- Colonial secretary Index. BAILEY, Thomas. Per "Rolla", 1803. 1820 Jun 15-Aug 5 - Sentenced to death for stealing sheep in Van Diemen's Land. In reports of prisoners tried at Court of Criminal Jurisdiction (Reel 6023; X820 p.11) 1820 Jul 12 - Under sentence of death. To be sent for execution in Hobart per "Eliza" (Reel 6007; 4/3502 pp.122-3, 125-6) 1820 Jul 15, Sep 30 - Tried for sheep stealing. Re evidences sent from Port Dalrymple per "Governor Macquarie" (Reel 6007; 4/3502 pp.134, 289-90) 1820 Oct 18 - Re warrants for the execution of (Reel 6007; 4/3502 p.371) --------------------------------------------------- Thomas Bailey was executed for sheep-stealing on 28 July 1820, at Hobart. ------------------------------------------------ William Fenton, Thomas Bailey, freemen, and Edward Stanfield a prisoner, who have lately been fully committed by the Magistrates, at Port Dalrymple to take their trial before the Criminal Court at Sydney, for stealing a number of sheep belonging to Mr. Commissary Archer were on Sunday last brought into town from that Settlement, and lodged in gaol. They will be sent up to Sydney, with several more prisoners lately convicted here, in the Eliza. Hobart Town Gazette, 20 May 1820. Thomas Bailey, William Fenton, and Edward Hanfield, all indicted for stealing a number of sheep at Port Dalrymple, the property of Thomas Archer.— Bailey Guilty—Death; and the other two Acquitted. Sydney Gazette, 8 July 1820. By the Eliza arrived three prisoners who had been capitally convicted before the Court of Criminal Judicature for sheep stealing, under warrants of execution. Before day, on the morning of Wednesday, and shortly after the ship anchored, John Scott, one of the prisoners, who had been allowed to go to the head under charge of a sentinel, threw himself overboard, and being double-ironed, almost instantly sank. The circumstances of his death have this day been investigated by a full bench of magistrates. The other two offenders, Thomas Bailey and John Brady, suffered the sentence of the law yesterday morning. These unfortunate men were of the Catholic persuasion, but they accepted the ministry and assistance of the Reverend Mr.Knopwood, whose attention to them was constant since their arrival, and was continued at the place of execution. The miserable criminal who evaded the sentence of the Law by suicide, thus removing himself into the presence of the Omnipotent by his own desperate act, with all his crimes upon his head, is believed to have effected sheep robberies to a greater extent than they have been carried by any other man in this Settlement. The unhappy man, Baily, is also believed to have been long concerned in similar practices. Brady had been more recently engaged in them. Scott and Baily were both advanced in years. In tracing the numerous robberies in sheep which these men have accomplished, it is impossible, not to be forcibly struck by the reflection, how many others must have been concerned in receiving and disposing of the produce. That, this criminal encouragement and participation in an offence to which the punishment of death is by law affixed, should long escape with impunity is not to be believed ; and it is time for those who become the purchasers of flock, dishonestly obtained, to reflect that they become in fact the promoters of the offence, and in a moral point of view, as least as great criminals as the actual robbers; and that in the event of detection, they can have no hope of evading the heavy punishment which they so justly deserve. Hobart Town Gazette, Sat 29 July 1820.