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Edmond Connolly was transported on the Asia V, departing 6th Aug 1831 and arriving 2nd Dec 1831 with 90 passengers.
Built in Calcutta in 1814, 523 tons Rig Type: S The Asia transported prisoners from counties throughout Ireland including Wexford, Cork, Clare, Athlone, Mayo, Limerick, Carrick. Galway, Roscommon, Tipperary, Kerry, Waterford, Belfast and Monaghan. Their crimes included varous forms of stealing and robbery, assault, vagrancy, highway robbery, house robbery, receiving, assault, manslaughter and whiteboy crimes.
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SIR WILLIAM C. SMITH. On passing sentence of transportation on four unfortunate men who were convicted at the late Galway Assises, Baron Smith addressed them in the following impressive language :— Edmund Connelly, Martin (Quin), Thomas Browne, and Patrick Lyons— You have all been guilty of the same offence ; an offence than which I scarcely know of any more dangerously adverse to tranquillity and social order---to the morals, prosperity, and happiness of the humbler classes of our people. myself, in: the first instance , more Brown and Lyons,---to your case; I say that the administering of an unlawful; and as many call it, disturber’s oath, is not only in & gross and daring violation of the law, but is the fruitful and pernicious cause,-- and is intended so to be—of mischievous and abundant outrage. The administering of these oaths is, in fact, sort of compulsory conscription—-an enlisting and levying of sworn forces, for waging with law and property; a war of violence and intimidation. …. Dublin Morning Register, 19 April 1831. Four convicts from Galway Assizes arrived in town on Saturday, under an officer’s guard on route to Cork, for transportation for their natural lives. They ware sent directly from the dock for their destination. Their names are —Edmond Connelly and Martin Quin, for administering unlawful oaths to Mr. Alexander; and Thomas Brown and Pat. Lyons, for administering an unlawful oath to James Moran, a Shepherd of Lord Wallcott, during the sitting of the Assizes. Those two fellows were apprehended by Mr. Blake the Chief Remmembrancer, and a party of the Coast Guard, in the very act. Mayo Constitution 18 April 1831.
Irish Convict Database, by Peter Mayberry. Edmond Connolly, age on arrival, 30, per Asia V (2) 1831. Tried 1831, at Galway, 7 years for Unlawful oaths. Irish White Boy rebel. DOB, 1801, native place, Galway. Married, 2 children. Catholic. Ploughman. Remarks: Sentence reduced to 7 years.