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Transportation
George Creagh was transported on the Andromeda, departing 28th Aug 1830 and arriving 18th Dec 1830 with 71 passengers.
Also, same day, from Cork, whence she sailed May 25th, the ship Andromeda, 401 tons, Benjamin Gales master, with 173 female prisoners; Henry Kelsawl, Esq., Surgeon-superintendant. Passengers — Fourteen free females, viz. Mary Manning, Martha Morron, Margaret Mahon, Margaret Sheedy, Mary Ann Nixon alias Welsh, Catherine Kiernan, Mary Cassock, Catherine Stanton, Johanna Neville, Mary Lyons alias Hynes, Maria Moran, Catherine O'Donnel, Margaret Kennedy, and Mary Sullivan, and twenty-six children; also twenty-three children belonging to the prisoners. Sydney Monitor, 20 Sept 1834.
Andromeda (generic)References
| Primary Source | New South Wales, Australia, Convict Indents |
Claims
"Brother of convict Elizabeth (Creagh) Browne, my third great-grandmother."
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Convict Notes
Death of his sister Elizabeth: DEATHS. On the 22nd April, at her residence, Ben Lomond Cottage, North Richmond, ELIZABETH, aged 71 years, the beloved wife of Mr. ROBERT EATHER, Sen , and only daughter of the late Martin Creagh, attorney, of Dublin, and sister of the late Pierce John Creagh, of Sydney. Limerick papers please copy. Sydney Morning Herald, 8 May 1873.
Irish Convict Database by Peter Mayberry. George Creagh, alias Craigh, age on arrival, 27, per Andromeda II (1) 1830. Tried 1830, at Limerick, 14 years for receiving. DOB, 1803, native place, Galway Co. Single, brother Pierce arrived per same ship & sister Elizabeth Browne arrived per Hooghly (3) 1831. Catholic. Trade: Grocer clerk. ------------------------------------------------------------- Mr. Pierce Creagh, Mr. George Creagh, and Elizabeth Browne, brothers and sister, for receiving a quantity of waistcoating, cloth and Cassemere, the property of Mr. John Hogan James, woollen-draper, knowing same to be stolen—Verdict, not guilty as to Elizabeth Browne—Guilty to Pierce and George Creagh. Sentence—14 years transportation. This conviction is a most important, as it appeared in evidence the prisoners induced an apprentice to rob his master. Clonmel Herald, 17 March 1830
George William Creagh was baptised in Dublin in 1803. His age in convict records indicates a birth in 1803 or 1804 (RC St. Andrews Dublin parish records). On arrival, he was assigned to Captain George Bunn (not Burn), a leading Sydney businessman, whose residence was located on the Ultimo Estate on western shore of Darling Harbour. Bunn died in 1834 and George Creagh stayed on as an assigned servant for his wife, Anna Maria Bunn (born Murray). George Creagh died on 10 May 1836 due to a night-time accident as he made his way back to the Bunn residence after working in Sydney town that day (newspaper report of coronial inquest). He was buried in the Roman Catholic section of the Devonshire Street Cemetery (now the site of Central Railway Station).
1830 - New South Wales, Australia, Convict Indents. Indent No; 135 Name; George Creagh Age; 27 years, Read & write, Catholic. Single Native Place; Dublin Trade or calling; Grocer and Clerk Offence; Receiving Trial; Limerick - 12 March 1830 - 14 years. Previous Conviction; None Height; 5 ft. 7 1/2 in Assigned; Geo. Burn. Sydney BROTHER; Pierce Creagh. Indent No; 134. On Board SISTER; Elizabeth Browne arrived in the Colony per Ship; Hooghley - 27 Sept 1831. with one male infant child