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Transportation
Mary Cusack was transported on the Andromeda, departing 30th Nov 1833 and arriving 17th Sep 1834 with 176 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 Bound Indentures 1834-1835 |
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Convict Notes
From Limerick aged 45 with 3 boys and 3 girls on board. Could not read or write was married and a kitchenhand. 5' 3 1/4" ruddy freckled and freckled dark brown hair and grey eyes. Husband Timothy Cusack who came out on the Parmelia New South Wales, Australia, Settler and Convict Lists, 1787-1834 New South Wales Convicts arrived 1833-1834. Assigned to William Wyatt of Sydney New South Wales, Australia, Gaol Description and Entrance Books, 1818-1930 for Mary Cusack Entrance and Description Book Sydney. 3rd class at the factory for 2 months. 11/5/1835 New South Wales and Tasmania, Australia Convict Musters, 1806-1849 New South Wales General muster A-C of 1837 Assigned to W Elington of Shoalhaven. In this list is Henry Cusac also assigned to the same person and came on the "Parmelia" New South Wales, Australia, Certificates of Freedom, 1810-1814, 1827-1867 (NRS 12210) Butts of Certificates of Freedom 1841 December 23. Cert no 41/1769 Has Burgonia listed. The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser (NSW : 1848 - 1859) View title info Sat 14 May 1853 Page 4. Police Intelligence. DANGEROUS LUNATIC.-An old grey-headed wo man named Mary Cusack, wife of Timothy Cusack, a hired servant in the employ of Mr Styles, of Bullamalita, was charged with being a dangerous lunatic. The defendant was very talkative and violent in her manner. Previous to the opening of the Court, she knelt down under the portico of the building, and repeated a long prayer in Irish. On being brought into the presence of the Bench she became even more violent, and being baffled in an attempt to strike Constable Pagett with one of her fists, she seized a chair with which she dealt a blow at him. She railed, during the examination which succeeded, against some man named Quinn, and others, whom she represented as having conspired to take her life. John Kennedy, who was living in the hut with defendant and her husband, was put upon his oath and deposed : That while he was in bed last Sunday week, the unfortunate defendant came out of her room into that in which he was; that she had in her hand a shear blade, mounted on a stick about a foot long, and after sitting down by his bedside for some little time, she made three stabs at him through the bed-clothes; the last blow took effect, the blade entering the calf of his leg. Drs. Waugh and Gerard deposed: that they had examined the defendant, and it was their opinion, from the examination they had made, that if she was not restrained she would commit murder. She was then committed to Gaol, preparatory to her removal to the Lunatic Asylum, Tarban Creek.