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Transportation
Margaret Baird was transported on the Kinnear, departing 16th Jun 1848 and arriving 7th Oct 1848 with 141 passengers.
Built 1834 at Yarmouth. Wood barque of 369 Tons. (Register of persons transported is not yet completed - currently being listed.) 1842 Voyage. OCT. 23. - Arrived the barque Kinnear, Lidderdale master, from Dublin 10th July, with 180 male prisoners, Surgeon Superintendent - G. J. Fox, Esq. The guard consists of Captain Bull (with Mrs. Bull, 4 children, and 1 female servant), and 30 rank and file of the 99th Regt., - 4 women, and 6 children. Colonial Times (Hobart) 25 Oct 1842.
Kinnear (generic)References
| Primary Source | Tasmanian Indents for Kinnear. https://stors.tas.gov.au/CON15-1-5$init=CON15-1-5p8 and https://stors.tas.gov.au/CON15-1-5$init=CON15-1-5p9 |
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Convict Notes
WHAT IS your NAME?—On Saturday Inst, a young woman in the service of Mr. Thomas of Macquarie street, was charged with breaking open her master's door on Tuesday, the 2nd instant, for the purpose of getting out, and with absenting herself from that time until the night of the 4th. She was further charged with falsely epresenting herself on the evening of her apprehension, and also in the police court, as being one Mary Scarrol, per Waverly, a ticket of leave holder. The defendant said that she was a native of Armagh and had been convicted in the name of Margaret Bearn alias Wilson, and that she came to the colony in the Kinnear. She had been, once, in the service of Mr. Casper of Liverpool street, and Mr. Thomas said that the woman always "called herself" Margaret Wilson, while in his employ. She was at first put back for au hour or so, and then brought in again when the magistrate sentenced her to eight months within the female house of correction. Hobarton Guardian, 10 July 1850.
Convict Conduct Report : https://stors.tas.gov.au/CON41-1-19$init=CON41-1-19p144
Tasmanian Indents for Kinnear. https://stors.tas.gov.au/CON15-1-5$init=CON15-1-5p8 and https://stors.tas.gov.au/CON15-1-5$init=CON15-1-5p9 Margaret Baird or Wilson, tried at Londonderry, 13 March 1848, 7 years, age 19, height 5 ft 1. protestant, can neither read nor write, married. Offence: Picking pockets of money, Margt Dwyley, Co Derry. Tried and acquitted for same offence. Surgeon’s Report: Middling. Trade, Nursemaid, on the Town 2 years. Native place, Co. Armagh. Remarks: Hus, Thos Sheridan in this colony, a convict 2 years since. Father William Wilson, Brother, Thos, Sis, Jane, Ann, Ellen & Mary, all at N.P.