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Transportation
Hugh Boyle was transported on the Marquis Cornwallis, departing 9th Aug 1795 and arriving 11th Feb 1796 with 198 passengers.
Captain Michael Hogan. Surgeon Matthew Austin. Surgeon John Hogan. First Officer Hugh Reid; Midshipman William Roberts. Embarked: 163 men; 70 women Voyage: 186 days Deaths 11
Marquis Cornwallis (generic)References
| Primary Source | Belfast Newsletter, Monday 13 April 1795, p. 2 |
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Convict Notes




1796 - Burial Record. Old Sydney Burial Ground - Inventory Name; Hugh Boyle Burial; 21 Mar 1796 Remarks; Convict


Two other convicts who were sentenced at the same Monaghan Assizes to be hanged on the same day - John Davison for horse stealing, and James Martin also for horse stealing - were also pardoned on condition of transportation to NSW, and both arrived with Hugh Boyle in NSW on the Marquis Cornwallis.


Two other convicts who were sentenced at the same Monaghan Assizes to be hanged on the same day - John Davison for horse stealing, and James Martin also for horse stealing - were also pardoned on condition of transportation to NSW, and both arrived with Hugh Boyle in NSW on the Marquis Cornwallis.


Hugh Boyle, sentenced at Monaghan, was transported on Marquis Cornwallis arriving in NSW in February 1796, sentenced for seven years. He had first been sentenced to be hanged, for 11 May 1795. IRISH CRIME: Belfast Newsletter, Monday 13 April 1795, p. 2 "Monaghan Assizes "Hugh Boyle found guilty of burglariously breaking, and feloniously taking out of the dwelling house of Robert Shaw, at Gubduff, one gun, was ordered to be hanged on 11th May next. "Said Hugh acquitted of feloniously assaulting said house, and other felonies." It sounds as though Hugh Boyle's crime may have been part of the Defender movement, which was strong in the mid 1790's in the north of Ireland, and members often gathered arms by burgling houses which had arms in them. List of Convicts 1792-96, on Marquis Cornwallis lists: Hugh Boyle, as aged 21, tried in County Monaghan in March 1795, for a term of seven years. Hugh Boyle DIED only one month after arriving in NSW in February 1796. His burial is recorded in the St Phillips Church of England Burial Register for 21st March 1796.