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Catherine Cavanagh 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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"Catherine cavanah was my great great great grandmother"
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Convict Notes
1815 - 14 Aug. Sent to the Govt. Factory at Parramatta 1815 - Australia Convict Index. Name: Catherine Cavanagh [Catherine Dogherty] Age; 18 [1797] Trial Dublin City. 1818 - New South Wales, Australia, Settler and Convict Lists. Trial; Oct 1814. Ticket of Leave. Single. In the Colony 1820 - New South Wales, Australia, Settler and Convict Lists. Employment/Remarks; Nurse in the General Hospital in the Colony. 1825 - New South Wales and Tasmania, Australia Convict Musters. 1825 Name; Catherine Kavanagh Age; No Details Class; F. S. Vessel; Francis & Eliza - 1815 - 7 years Employment/Remarks; WIFE; of Wm. Radley, Sydney
Irish Convict Database by Peter Mayberry. Catherine Cavanagh, alias Kavanagh, Dogherty, age on arrival, 18, per Francis and Eliza, (1815), Tried at Dublin City, 1813, 7 years, DOB, 1797, native place, Dublin, Nursery maid. --------------------------------------------------- Colonial Secretary Index. CAVANAGH, Catherine. Per "Francis and Eliza", 1815. 1815 Aug 14 On list of convicts disembarked from the "Francis and Eliza" & sent to the Government Factory at Parramatta (Reel 6004; 4/3494 p.139)