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Transportation
Louis Bulger was transported on the Anne 1, departing 26th Jun 1800 and arriving 26th Jan 1801 with 54 passengers.
Departed from Cork, Ireland. # Also recorded as "Luz St Anna"
Anne 1 (generic)References
| Primary Source | Irish Convict Database, by Peter Mayberry. |
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Convict Notes
Convict Index. Lewis Bulger, Conditional Pardon, 4 Jun 1804. Written as BULGAS, Lewis. Lewis Bulger, Absolute Pardon, 24 Sep 1805.
Irish Convict Database, by Peter Mayberry. Louis Bulger, Per Anne I (1801), Tried at Wexford, 1800, Life, Irish rebel. Found in 1811 muster. --------------------------------------------------- Source: “Unfinished Revolution: United Irishmen in New South Wales” by Anne-Maree Whitaker. Page 136. She is talking of the 1806 muster: “The muster shows ten of the convicts who had arrived on the Anne, five years earlier, as emancipated or free by service. ... Louis Bulger, who first betrayed the Castle Hill Rebellion, was free by service and working for D’Arcy Wentworth at Parramatta. With reference to the Castle Hill Rebellion, in the same book, on pages 93, 94, Anne- Maree Whitaker states that Louis Bulger was at a place called “There and Nowhere”, which was a meeting place for one of the Castle Hill conspirators, Power and another Irishman named Keogh. Power showed Keogh a document which he had to explain, as Keogh was illiterate. Also at “There and Nowhere” was another convict, John Griffin, who was taking a similar paper which Philip Cunningham had given him to take to Bryan Fury at Hawkesbury, stating when the insurrection would begin and details of the password. Griffin was unable to read, and showed the document to Louis Bulger, who could read but not write. The paper set the start of the rising for Sunday 4th March and the password as St Peter. Bulger advised him to destroy the letter. This breach of secrecy led to the authorities being warned, as on the Saturday before the rising, Keogh spoke to an overseer who passed the information on to his master, and the magistrate sent a constable to Hawkesbury to find Griffin. On page 201 she gives a short biography. Louis Bulger. (Anne) Bulger was sentenced in Wexford in 11800 for suspicion of murdering his master. He informed on the Castle Hill Rebellion. In 1806 he was working for D’Arcy Wentworth at Parramatta, and was still in NSW in 1811.