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Julia Brien was transported on the Francis And Eliza, departing 15th Dec 1814 and arriving 8th Aug 1815 with 125 passengers.
The Francis & Eliza was built on the Thames in 1782 (345 tons). The Francis & Eliza and the Canada departed Cork in convoy on 5 December 1814.The Francis and Eliza was taken on 4th January by the American Warrior privateer. She was plundered before being given up and allowed to continue on the journey. Captain Harrison was removed on board the privateer, and detained many hours but was afterwards liberated and restored to his own ship. Captain Harrison later reported that while the ship lay at Sierra Leone, in the month of March, a terrible fever raged at that settlement, occasioning a mortality most dreadful.The Francis & Eliza and Canada sailed from Sierra Leone together for the Cape of Good Hope, where they arrived the 12th May and remained three weeks to refresh. Fifty-two male prisoners and sixty-five female prisoners arrived in Port Jackson on the Francis and Eliza on 8 August 1815. (Ref. Sydney Gazette 12/08/1815)
Francis And Eliza (generic)References
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Irish Convict Database by Peter Mayberry. Julia Brien, alias O’Brien, Bryan, age on arrival, 18, per Francis and Eliza, (1815), Tried at Dublin City, 1814, Life, DOB, 1797, native place, Dublin, Servant. ----------------------------------------------------- Colonial Secretary Index. BRIAN, Julia. Per "Francis and Eliza", 1815. 1815 Aug 14 Assigned as servant to Isabel Curran; listed as O'Brian (Reel 6045; 4/1733 p.15) 1815 Dec 5 On list of prisoners to be sent to Newcastle per "Lady Nelson" (Reel 6004; 4/3494 p.276) 1818 Jan 5 On list of prisoners to be sent to Newcastle per "Elizabeth Henrietta" (Reel 6005; 4/3497 p.273) ---------------------------------------------------- This newspaper report MAY refer to this person: PRINCIPAL SUPERINTENDANT'S OFFICE, Sydney, October 4, 1817. THE under-mentioned Prisoners having absented themselves from their respective Employments, and some of them at large with false Certificates, all Constables and others are hereby required to use their utmost Exertions in apprehending and lodging them in safe Custody. Women. Julia Brien. Sydney Gazette, 11 Oct 1817. --------------------------------------------------- Windsor Police. —Julia Brien, known at Hunter's River and divers other places, under the trite appellation of the "Spotted Doe," and who has passed away, at least 12 years in this Colony, without a ticket of leave, or any other than "French leave," for the major part of her time, was now brought before the Court by her master, charged with drunkenness and neglect of work. It was rather a plain defence the prisoner entered upon. "Gentlemen; I was never so drunk but what I could do my duty." Had Lord Nelson been on the Bench, or had she been on board the Trafalgar, proof might have been had, and his Lordship and crew might have been had, and Lordship and crew might have been gratified; but her master repeated, that he had tried her many ways, and she was still idle in the extreme. " Oh ! Julia! Julia!" To be sent to class No. 3, for the term of 3 months. The Monitor, 25 Feb 1828. -------------------------------------------------------- 1828 Census Index. Julia Brien, age 27, Francis and Eliza, 1814, Life, catholic, Factory, Parramatta.