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Catherine Bradshaw was transported on the Minerva, departing 18th Aug 1839 and arriving 26th Dec 1839 with 119 passengers.
The Minerva was built at Lancaster, England in 1804. 4 voyages bringing convict transportees to Australia.
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"Catherine Bradshaw is my gggrandmother"
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Convict Notes
https://content.archives.nsw.gov.au/delivery/StreamGate?dps_pid=FL9819731&dps_dvs=1729320310491~789 Particulars of Children arrived from Ireland by the Convict Ship Minerva 6, Master, mustered on board, 31 December 1839 William Barry, aged 9 months, born Co Limerick, 1839, Parents, Stan D Barry and Catherine Bradshaw, single, catholic.
National Archives. ADM 101/54/6B. Medical journal of the convict ship Minerva, for 18 August to 26 December 1839 by Patrick Magovern, Surgeon and Superintendent, during which time the said ship was employed in a voyage from Dublin to Sydney, New South Wales. Folio 8: Catherine Bradshaw, aged 30; convict; case number 14; sick or hurt, scorbutus; put on sick list, 15 October 1839, discharged 6 November 1839.
Document : https://content.archives.nsw.gov.au/delivery/StreamGate?dps_pid=FL9604554&dps_dvs=1728915298757~54 List of Children belonging to female convicts embarked onboard the ship Minerva, 15 Aug 1839. Willm. Barry, aged 3 months, Mother, Catherine Bradshaw, from Limerick.
County Quarter Catherine Bradshaw was indicted for wearing apparel and money from Mr. J.. Rathmore, on the 29th of November also charged with stealing linen from .... She told him that she got early at night unobserved, and hid he bed until she found the family asle.. she effected the robbery. Guilty—Transported for seven years. ... Limerick Chronicle, 19 Jan 1839. The Chief Constable and a party of police last morning left this with the following convicts for Kilmainham:—viz. from the county gaol, Ellen Finherty, Catherine Bradshaw, Margaret Buckley, and Catherine Ryan, to be transported for 7 years for robbery, and the following from the city gaol:— Catherine Kelly, Margaret Fitzgerald, Mary ney, Maryanne Young, Sarah Ryan, Mary Kennedy, Ann Gleeson, Ann Cole, Margaret Hartigan, Johannah Courtney, Catherine Sullivan, and Margaret Burke, same offence. and like sentence Limerick Chronicle, 13 July 1839.
Catherines child didn't die on the voyage, musters on arrival show the child arrived safely.
Catherine Honorah Bradshaw (aka Norah) was born in Tipperary Ireland c 1813, and at the age of 29 was tried in Limerick on 18.01.1839 for larceny (stealing a cloak) and was transported for 7 years. She sailed on the Minerva from Ireland on 18 August 1839 accompanied by her infant son (who died on the voyage) arriving in Port Jackson on 26 December 1839. She was single and her occupation was dairy maid. According to the surgeon's journal, the child was her father's. Catherine had no prior convictions, she was catholic, could not read or write, was 5 feet tall, with brown hair and large hazel eyes. She did not apply for her Certificate of Freedom Catherine Honorah Bradshaw married Edward Ivill on January 3, 1842 in Church of England, Queanbeyan, NSW.2 Catherine was born abt 1813 died on September 18, 1863 in Mimosa Rock, Tathra, NSW3 at age 50, and was buried in the sea of Mimosa Rock 2 miles north of Tathra, NSW. The cause of her death was drowned. Another name for Catherine was Norah. It appears that Edward and Catherine died at the same time because their registration nos. on the BDM death records are consecutive numbers. This fact is borne out by one of their descendants, Mark Howard who has informed me that they were both tragically drowned in a shipwreck on the far south coast of NSW. They were among the 38 passengers and crew on the paddle steamer "Mimosa" which had departed Twofold Bay for Sydney on the 18th September 1863. Two miles north of Tathra the vessel hit an unchartered rock and began to sink. Those on board took to the life boats, but it was realised that one passenger, Mrs Ivill, was missing and her husband went back onto the ship and went below to look for her. Neither reappeared and a diver who later salvaged the cargo found their bodies in the wreck and gave them a burial at sea. The rock on which the ship foundered was later named Mimosa Rock and later still Mimosa National Park on the mainland was named after the event. The wreck still exists and is protected by NSW government legislation. Its historic, social and archaeological significence saw the Mimosa declared an Historic Shipwreck in 1984 under the provisions of the Commonwealth's Historic Shipwreck Act (1876) which prohibits divers from disturbing or removing material from the site. Prior to his arrival in the colony , Edward was living in Manchester in England where he worked as a porter on the docks. Following his arrival he worked in the south east region of NSW as a labourer and a stockman and he had a small property on the McLaughlin River just south of Nimmitabel.