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Transportation
Jeremiah Brenan was transported on the Rolla, departing 4th Nov 1802 and arriving 12th May 1803 with 161 passengers.
On Thursday arrived the Ship Rolla, Captain John Cummings, from Ireland, with Prisoners of both sexes, viz. 119 Men and 37 Women: Seven of whom died on the passage; and the day after her arrival landed some of those who were weakly, at the General Hospital. She left Ireland the 4th of November, arrived at Rio de Janeiro on the 15th of January, sailed from thence the 6th of February, and in 95 days after came to an anchor in Port Jackson. During the latter part of the passage she experienced much bad weather; in the course of which, she sprung her main?mast and carried away her main?yard. She brings, for the use of Government, 234 pieces of Pork, 686 Casks of Flour, and 11 Tons of Sugar. Sydney Gazette, 15 May 1803.
Rolla (generic)References
| Primary Source | Freemans Journal, Thursday 22 July 1802 page 3. NSW State Records, Indents, Convict Ship - Rolla 1803 |
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Convict Notes
Jeremiah Brenan, or Brennan, aged 19 was transported on “Rolla’ for Life, with his father John, for a burglary and robbery in Dublin in June 10802. they were tried on 20 July 1802. They were tried in July 1802, together with one other man (who was acquitted). The Brenans were both found guilty and sentenced to be hanged five months later in December 1802. Presumably the long wait until the carrying out of the death sentence was for petitions to be made for clemency. Both Brennans sailed on “Rolla” departing November 1802. They arrived ion 12 May 1803. Jeremiah’s father was the John “Brannan” executed in March 1804 for his part in the Castle Hill uprising. Freemans Journal, Thursday 22 July 1802 page 3: “Commission of Oyer and Terminer TUESDAY, JUL 20 “John Brennan, Jeremiah Brenan, father and son, and Matthew Byrn, stood indicted for burglary and robbery on the 3rd of June last at the house of Alexander Johnston ta the first lock of the Grand Canal “Margaret Johnston, wife of the prosecutor, deposed to the robbery committed at her house on the night stated in the indictment. She could only identify John Brennan, whose mildness and humanity to her and five children, who lay in her bed, her husband being absent, she expatiated on in extenuation of his offence. There were some articles of plate, a watch, and several old coins in good preservation, and wearing apparel stolen, by which they were, through a succession of evidence, traced to the two Brenans, who were found guilty, and the prisoner born acquitted.” LATER IN THE SAME NEWSPAPER REPORT: “The two Brenans for robbing Johnston at the Grand Canal, to be hanged.”