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Transportation
Edward Dempsey 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
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Convict Notes




ENNIS ASSlZES—Thursday, March 4. ... Edward Dempsey, charged with stealing a firkin of butter and basket. Guilty—Transportation for seven years. ... Dublin Evening Packet, 11 March 1830.




Irish Convict Database, by Peter Mayberry. Edward Dempsey, age on arrival, 26, per Andromeda II (1) 1830. Tried 1830, at Ennis Clare Co, 7 years, for Stealing butter. DOB 1804, Native place, Galway Co. Married, 1 child. Catholic. Labourer Ploughman reaper sower.