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Charles Mccarthy was transported on the Brampton, departing 8th Nov 1822 and arriving 22nd Apr 1823 with 185 passengers.
The 'Brampton' ship was built in 1817 at King's Lynn, Norfolk, England. Originally used by the East India Company and then whaling before being a convict transport ship. Many of the Irish convicts on this ship were convicted under the Insurrection Act, for White Boy offences. 24 April 1823, the Sydney Gazette reported: On Tuesday last arrived from Ireland, with 183 male convicts, the ship Brampton, Captain Moore. She left London the 28th of July last; sailed from the Cove of Cork on the 8th of November; and last from the Cape of Good Hope, the 20th of February, from whence she brings eleven convicts.—Surgeon Superintendent, Dr. Price, R. N. The guard comprises a detachment of the 3d Regt. (Buffs.)
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| Primary Source | Finn's Leinster Journal, 31 August 1822 page 2 NSW State Records - Indents of convict ship "Brampton" |
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Convict Notes
CORK COUNTY ASSIZES, AUG. 19. Charles McCarthy and Patrick and John Sullivan, stood charged with a burglary, in the house of Timothy Farrell, for the abduction of Mary Farrell, with intent that one Daniel M'Carthy should marry or injure her. Mary Farrell being sworn, deposed that she remembered the night of Thursday, the 28th of March ; she lived then at Togher, in this County, at her father's house. At about two or three o'clock in the morning, several men came to the house ; her father opened the door, thinking the rapping was by travellers. She was then in bed, and some of the men went into the room where she was, upon which she rose up, and got into another bed where her mother was. Daniel M`Carthy said, Here she is. Two men, named Hurly and Cronin, then seized her by the hair of her head ; she continued to hold her mother round the waist, and in this predicament they were pulled outside the door, when witness was put up behind Daniel M‘Carthy on 'a horse, and tied with a loose coat. She had none of her own clothes on but her shift, and in this condition was taken to a wood, when all the men left her but Daniel M'Carthy. He attempted freedoms with her, but she told him not to do so till night, and he desisted. He then fell asleep, and she made off. When the men came to the house, she saw no arms but one pistol with Daniel McCarthy. ... Morning Herald, 26 August 1822.
Monday morning a respite arrived at Cork, for Charles McCarthy, Patrick Sullivan, and John Sullivan, under sentence for execution, Saturday the 7 September, for the abduction of Mary Farrell. Saunders’s News-Letter, Thurs 5 Sept 1822.
Charles McCarthy was a 20 yr old Miller native of Co Cork, 5ft 6in tall, who was transported for Life to NSW for the crime of abducting a young woman together with two other men, the Sullivans. He was tried at County Cork at the Summer Assizes in August 1822: " Charles McCarthy, Patrick Sulilivan and John Sullivan abducted Mary Farrell, daughter of Timothy Farrell on the night of 28 March with intent that Daniel McCarthy should marry or defile her, and of appearing in arms to accomplish that purpose." PER: Finn's Leinster Journal, 31 August 1822 p2