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Eliza Beaghan was transported on the Margaret, departing 24th Jan 1837 and arriving 30th May 1837 with 39 passengers.
Built 1829 at Chepstow. 365 tons. Female prisoners were transported to New South Wales on the 'Margaret' in 1837, 1839 and 1840. The 'Margaret' was the last convict ship to transport female prisoners to New South Wales. Another voyage to Van Diemen's Land in 1843. The 1840 sailing also carried 17 free female passengers and one male. The registers of persons is not yet complete on this web site, so please note this if researching. (A work in progress.)
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Convict Notes
BURGLARY AND ROBBERY. Nicholas Boylan, Elizabeth Beahan, Elizabeth Field, and Margaret Smith, were indicted for burglariously entering the house of James Downey and taking therefrom a quantity of wearing apparel. James Downey sworn—His windows were broken in and his house entered between the hours of eleven and twelve o'clock; he went to bed before eleven o'clock ; awoke after eleven on account of the noise of the robbers, and found his dwelling had been entered, and a large quantity of clothes stolen; he immediately called on police constable Robinson, and informed him of the fact. Charles Harold, a soldier, sworn— Was passing Mr. house on the night in question ; saw two women standing near a window, and Margaret Smith of it ; the two women ran away when they saw him coming up; but he succeeded in detaining Margaret Smith. Robinson, a policeman, sworn— Went down to the canal banks in consequence of what he had heard from Downey ; constable O Neill went with him; just near the canal, they took the prisoners ; he seized the man, and O'Neill took the the women in custody ; Boylan made considerable resistance while they were going along ; O'Neill called out ; he turned and saw some of the stolen goods on the ground, as if they had dropped from Boylan ; he found more of them on his person. O'Neill, a policeman, sworn—Went with the last witness in search of prisoners; apprehended E. Field and E. Beahan with Boylan near the canal; while walking after his comrade and Boylan, he saw something drop, as if from under the coat of the latter, and found that it was an article of wearing apparel ; is quite sure that he saw it drop from the prisoner ; he saw Boylan standing with the women before he and his comrade came up. The case for the prosecution closed here. No witnesses were examined for the prisoners. Mr. M Donagh addressed the jury on behalf of Boylan, Judge Perrin summed up the evidence, and the jury found the females guilty of the burglary and larceny; Boylan guilty of the larceny—not guilty of the burglary. Sentence postponed. Dublin Morning Register, 1 Nov 1836. Elizabeth Byrne, Elizabeth Field, and Margaret Smith, burglary—judgment of death recorded. Nicholas Boylan, larceny—seven years’ transportation. Saunders’s News-Letter, 4 Nov 1836.
Irish Convict Database, by Peter Mayberry. Eliza Beaghan, alias Beghan, age on arrival, 18, per Margaret (1) 1837. Tried at Dublin, 1836, Life for House breaking. DOB, 1819, native place, Dublin. Single, brother Thomas Robinson, convict, arrived about 1836. Catholic. House maid.