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Voyage
Transportation
Robert Corban was transported on the Blenheim, departing 27th Jul 1834 and arriving 14th Nov 1834 with 203 passengers.
Built 1845 at Shields. Wood ship of 808 Tons. Register lists of persons transported on the various sailing is still a work in progress, not all are yet listed.
Blenheim (generic)References
| Primary Source | Irish Convict Database, by Peter Mayberry. |
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Convict Notes
Robert Corban, one of the boys tried yesterday week before the Recorder, for robbing Mr. Dunne, linen-draper, in Blackpool, and who was companions having been transported for life,—on quitting the Court House, perceiving at the door of Mr. Condon, Leather Seller, at the Exchange, a Hide of Leather most temptingly in his way, took it up, and marched off with it, but in a few minutes after was arrested in Cockpit - Informations were taken, with the leather in his custody. subsequently lodged against him, and he was yesterday convicted before the Recorder Cork Constitution, 19 April 1834. City Sessions, Friday. CITY SESSIONS—FRIDAY. The Recorder entered the Court half-past o’clock and proceeded with the trial of prisoners. Robert Corban was charged with stealing, on the 14th April a hide of leather, the property of Mr. Garrett Condon. The Prosecutor, with some of the City Police, captured the prisoner in a passage off Cockpit-lane, North Main-street, with the goods his possession— Guilty. The Recorder told the prisoner that had been before in 1833 for burglary and robbery, and on that occasion was acquitted; the spring assizes of the present year, was also acquitted on similar charge, and on Friday last he again appeared, with two others who were ordered transported for life, for stealing yards of calico from Mr. Thomas Dunne, when he was, for the third time, acquitted, tho’ there was an iron ripping tool found on his person, and there existed little doubt that was of the gang. His Worship would not, however, permit him any longer to go at large and sentenced him to 7 years’ transportation. Prisoner—Thank your Worship. Southern Reporter, 19 April 1834.
Irish Convict Database, by Peter Mayberry. Robert Corban, age on arrival, 21, per Blenheim I (1) 1834. Tried 1834, at Cork City, 7 years, for Stealing leather. DOB, 1818, native place, Cork. Single. Protestant. Trade, Shoemaker.