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Mary Connor 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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Convict Notes
1828 NSW Census Index. William Higgins, age 37, T.L. per Indian, 1809, Life, protestant, Carpenter, Parramatta Mary Higgins, age 35, FS, Fras & Eliza, 1814, 7 years protestant.
Permission to Marry. William Higgins, convict per Indian and Mary Connor, convict per Francis and Eliza, requested 6 Sep 1819, Parramatta, by Revd. John Cross, approved.
Irish Convict Database by Peter Mayberry. Mary Connor, age on arrival, 20, per Francis and Eliza, (1815), Tried at Kildare Co., 1814, 7 years, DOB, 1795, native place, Kildare, Servant. ---------------------------------------------------- Colonial Secretary Index. CONNOR, Mary. Per "Francis and Eliza", 1815. 1815 Aug 14 On list of convicts disembarked from the "Francis and Eliza" and sent to the Government Factory at Parramatta (Reel 6004; 4/3494 p.139) 1819 Sep 6,8 Re permission to marry at Parramatta (Reel 6006; 4/3500 p.250)