Summary
Personal Information
Voyage
Transportation
Martin Bowen was transported on the St Vincent, departing 13th Sep 1836 and arriving 5th Jan 1837 with 119 passengers.
St Vincent (generic)References
| Primary Source | Mayberry, Peter; Irish Convicts to NSW 1788-1849. |
Claims
"Great great great Grandfather"
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Convict Notes
CONVICTS. The following Convicts left our County and City Gaols, on Monday morning, under charge of of the respective Governors and a detachment of the 82th regiment, on their way to the hulk, S Surprise, at Cove. From the City.—Peter Molloy, for manslaughter ; William Quinlan, for sheep-stealing ; Patrick Tobin and Martin ..., for sheep-killing—to be transported for life. Kilkenny Moderator, 10 Aug 1836.
County Court, Friday, Second Day At nine o'clock Baron Pennefather entered Court.— A Jury having been sworn, the following cases were tried : Patrick Tobin, Mary Tobin, and Martin Bohan, stood indicted for killing sheep with intent to steal the carcase, and in other counts for plucking and stealing the wool off sheep. The prisoners were found guilty and sentenced to transportation for life. Waterford Chronicle, 23 July 1836. Patrick Tobin, Martin Bohan, and Mary ..., were indicted for killing two sheep the property of Pierce Lanigan. at Duwhell, on the night of the 20th of March last. The first witness produced was Pierce Lannigen who proved to the killing of the two sheep. and that the wool had been plucked from 10 otthers on the same night. The next witness was …. Fitzpatrick, an approver—an old offender, though young in years. He identified the three prisoners and gave a most minute account of the entire transaction from beginning to end. No contradiction was elicited on his cross-examination, ’ Thomas Reade, a man in the employment of Mr. Luby, of John-street, proved the fact of the prisoners offered the wool for sale, which, appearing to have been very recently taken from the skin, he suspected that all was not right, immediately sent for the Police, and had them taken into custody ; the approver was one of them. This witness, as well as Constable O'Hara, corroborated the chief part of Fitzpatrick’s testimony. An alibi was attempted on the part of Mary Hogan, by two witnesses, who had learnt their lessons so well off by heart that they scarcely ... in a single answer. The prisoners were all very young. but had been Iong time concerned in robberies of this kind across the country.. They were to for... Kilkenny Moderator, 16 July 1836.
Martin Bowen (also spelt Bohan, Boaen or Bohen) had been tried in Kilkenny Ireland as a 16-year-old illiterate for "feloniously killing a sheep". 1837: Assigned to the Australian Agricultural Co., Port Stephens. 1847: TOL Windsor 7/6/1853: CP 1851: Married Elizabeth Seage in the Bathurst area. Martin was a shoe and bootmaker first living in Evans Plain near Bathurst before settling in the Dubbo / Triange area.
In 1821, Martin married Elizabeth Seage (no details known). In the following 25 years, they had a large family of 12 children.
Martin, aged 16, was charged with his step-sister Mary Tobin and step-brother Martin Bowen. Mary Tobin, the sister, aged 18, was charged with Sheep-stealing. Both brothers were charged with Feloniously slaughtering stolen sheep. They were all sentenced to transportation for life. The two men were transported on the “St Vincent”, Mary was Supposedly transported on “Sir Charles Forbes”.