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Transportation
Roger Cassidy was transported on the Lord Sidmouth, departing 9th Nov 1820 and arriving 19th Feb 1821 with 162 passengers.
A Barque built in Jersey (Briton) 1815. Tonnage 194. Built by Matthew le Boeuf. Three (3) voyages to Australia transporting convicted persons. (The 1821 does not yet have complete details on this web site.)
Lord Sidmouth (generic)References
| Primary Source | New South Wales, Australia, Convict Indents, 1788-1842 Bound Indentures 1820-1821 |
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Convict Notes
A Coroner's inquest assembled on Thursday evening last, at the Fox and Hounds, Castlereagh street, on a prisoner of the crown named Roger Cassidy,who died the same day in the General Hospital, from a wound he had himself inflicted some days previous, by cutting his throat and severing in a dreadful manner the windpipe. Upon his being interrogated while in the General Hospital, he avowed the rash act, and added that he had thrown away the knife with which he perpetrated it, in the bush. Verdict, "destroyed himself by cutting his throat in a moment of aberration of mind." Sydney Gazette, Tues 29 Dec 1829. He died Thursday 24 December 1829.
Transmitted from the Goal of the county of Antrim to Kilmainham Prison, on the 14th inst. the following Convicts, viz. : Roger Cassidy, for horse stealing, who was sentenced to be hanged at last Summer Assizes ; … Belfast Commercial Chronicle. 25 Sep 1820.
From Co Antrim Ireland 5' 9" sallow complexion brown hair and hazel eyes New South Wales and Tasmania, Australia Convict Musters, New South Wales General muster A-L 1825 At Welch's Road party Parramatta New South Wales, Australia, Convict Death Register, 1829 for Roger Cassidy