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Transportation
Pearce 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, 1788-1842 for Pierce Creagh |
Claims
"Brother of 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. Pierce Creagh, alias Craigh, age on arrival, 28, per Andromeda II (1) 1830. Tried 1830, at Limerick, 14 years for receiving. DOB, 1802, native place, Galway Co. Single, brother George arrived per same ship & sister Elizabeth Browne arrived per Hooghly (3) 1831. Catholic. Trade: Ironmonger 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
Pierce Jeremiah Creagh was baptised in Dublin in 1799 (day and month not known), so was a little older than his age in convict records that indicate a c. 1802 birth (RC St. Andrews Dublin parish records). He later adopted the middle name of John in place of Jeremiah (e.g., 1849 parish death record). The spelling of his first name in records is either Pierce or Pearce. After being approved for a conditional pardon on 1 July 1842 (formalised in August 1843), Pierce married widow Eliza Bardo (born Evans) on 7 July 1842 (parish marriage record) and established a successful and well-known grocery business in Pitt Street, Sydney (numerous newspaper articles and advertisements). He died on the 19 August 1849 and his was one of the early burials at the Camperdown Cemetery in Sydney.
1830 - New South Wales, Australia, Convict Indents. Indent No; 134 Name; Pierce Creagh Age; 28 years, Read & write, Catholic. Single Native Place; Dublin Trade or calling; Iron-monger and Clerk Offence; Receiving Trial; Limerick - 12 March 1830 - 14 years. Previous Conviction; None Height; 5 ft. 5 1/2 in Assigned; A Foss. Druggist, Sydney 1842 - Conditional Pardon. No; 43/188. Age; 40. BROTHER; George Creagh. Indent No; 135. On Board SISTER; Elizabeth Browne arrived in the Colony per Ship; Hooghley - 27 Sept 1831. with one male infant child