Name: | Paul Corrigan |
Aliases: | Coryan, Connaghan |
Gender: | m |
Date of Birth: | 1798 |
Occupation: | Servant |
Date of Death: | - |
Age: | - |
Life Span
Male median life span was 57 years*
* Median life span based on contributions
Sentence Severity
Sentenced to 7 years
Crime: | Stealing a handkerchief |
Convicted at: | Ireland, Dublin |
Sentence term: | 7 years |
Ship: | Bencoolen |
Departure date: | 24th April, 1819 |
Arrival date: | 25th August, 1819 |
Place of arrival | New South Wales |
Passenger manifest | Travelled with 72 other convicts |
Primary source: | http://members.pcug.org.au/~ppmay/cgi-bin/irish/irish.cgi |
Source description: |
D Wong on 15th September, 2016 wrote:
National Archives, UK.
Convicts received on board the Bencoolen at Cove of Cork in Ireland
Paul Coryan, aged 20; where and when tried, September 1818, Dublin; crime, felony of handkerchiefs; term of transportation, 7 years.
(Should read Corrigan)**
Sick List of the Bencoolen 1819:
Paul Corrigan; disease or hurt, pain in the bowels, indigestion and costiveness. Taken ill, 29 June. Discharged 1 July.
16/9/1819: Arrived VDL per ‘Admiral Cockburn’.
Paul Corrigan was 5’5 3/4” tall, dark brown hair, grey eyes, scar between eyebrows.
14/4/1821Hobart Town Gazette:
Paul Corrigan. Employed in the warehouse. Sentenced to be transported to Newcastle for 3 years for stealing tobacco, the Bench intimating their knowledge of his being a very bad character.
Assigned to William Dun by July 1824.
Assigned to John Eales 1 October 1824.
Back with Government at Newcastle by July 1825.
8/9/1825: COF - NSW.
1828 Muster: Listed as Connaghan 30 years old, catholic, labourer with James Adair, Cardoness, Patersons Plains.
1837: Employed by Dr Evans Newcastle.
No marriage or death found.
D Wong on 15th September, 2016 made the following changes:
convicted at, term: 7 years, voyage, source: http://members.pcug.org.au/~ppmay/cgi-bin/irish/irish.cgi (prev. ), firstname: Paul, surname: Corrigan, alias1: Coryan, alias2: Connaghan, alias3: , alias4: , date of birth: 1798, date of death: 0000, gender: m
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