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Crime
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Transportation
Dennis Regan was transported on the St Vincent, departing 28th Dec 1852 and arriving 26th May 1853 with 214 passengers.
St Vincent (generic)References
| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 92, Class and Piece Number HO11/17, Page Number 639 (322) |
| Source Description | This record is one of the entries in the British convict transportation registers 1787-1867 database compiled by State Library of Queensland from British Home Office (HO) records which are available on microfilm as part of the Australian Joint Copying Pro |
| Original Source | Great Britain. Home Office |
| Compiled By | State Library of Queensland |
| Database Source | British convict transportation registers 1787-1867 database |
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FOOTNOTE: Date of birth -- 1825. OTHER: The Mercury Hobart - Thursday 5 October 1876 RESISTING THE POLICE.-Denis Regan, the husband of Elizabeth Regan, pleaded guilty to a charge of resisting Constable Badcock while in the execution of his duty, he was conveying his wife to the lock-up. The bench did not consider the case an aggravated one, and therefore simply fined defendant 5s., or 7 days imprisonment. The Mercury Hobart - Saturday 3 April 1886 CITY POLICE: COURT.-At this court yesterday the Police Magistrate (Mr, W. Tarleton) presided. Tho following were charged with drunkenness :-George . Atkinson, Denis Regan, Ann Barker, Elizabeth Regan, Henry Hatfield, and Thomas Burns, and were each fined 5s., or seven days (http://foundersandsurvivors.org/pubsearch/convict/chain/ai58878).
DEATH RECORD: Regan, Denis Record Type: Deaths Gender: Male Remarks: Note: This data was compiled by the Tasmanian Family History Society. It was published on CD-ROM as part of the Tasmanian Federation Index Births 1900-1919, Deaths and Marriages 1900-1930 by Macbeth Genealogical Services, 2006. Libraries Tasmania does not hold the original documents used to create this index. Contact Births, Deaths and Marriages for access to the original records, or to obtain a certificate. Date of death: 07 May 1901 Where died: Benevolent Asylum, Launceston Registration year: 1901 File number: 123 Record ID: NAME_INDEXES:1978062 (https://talis.ent.sirsidynix.net.au/client/en_AU/names/search/results?qu=NI_INDEX="Deaths") --00--
WELFARE: Name: Regan, Dennis Record Type: Health & Welfare Age: 76 Property: Launceston Invalid Depot Admission dates: 01 Apr 1900 to 31 Jul 1900, 01 Apr 1901 to 07 May 1901 Place of origin: Ireland Paupers & Invalids no.: pi1461200 Record ID: NAME_INDEXES:1775370 (https://stors.tas.gov.au/NS1172-1-1$init=NS1172-1-1P32). --00--
DEATH: Name: Denis Regan Death Date: 1901 Death Place: Tasmania Registration Place: Launceston, Tasmania Registration Number: 0111 (http://foundersandsurvivors.org/pubsearch/convict/chain/ai58878). --00--
MARRIAGE: 28 June, 1858: Name: Eliza Douglas (per Anna Maria 1852) Spouse Name: Denis Regan Marriage Place: Tasmania Registration Place: Hobart, Tasmania Registration Year: 1858 Registration Number: 369 (http://foundersandsurvivors.org/pubsearch/convict/chain/ai58878) --0—
OTHER: 11 July, 1853: He was granted a Certificate of Freedom. For more details of his convict life, see (https://stors.tas.gov.au/CON33-1-115$init=CON33-1-115p163. --00—
VDL: 26 May, 1853: On arrival in VDL, Denis Regan, convict #28007, was listed as a farm labourer; transported for 7 years for larceny (“housebreaking, stealing £13”); 26 years old, 5’8 ¾” tall with dark brown hair, hazel eyes and a dark complexion. He was single, Catholic and unable to read. Native place: Limerick. Gibraltar report “good” (https://stors.tas.gov.au/CON33-1-115$init=CON33-1-115p163). Family: Mother Ellen, brother John and sister Margaret – at his native place (http://foundersandsurvivors.org/pubsearch/convict/chain/ai58878). --0--
On Gibraltar, DENIS REGAN was described as 23 years old when convicted, sentenced to 7 years for “larceny from a dwelling”; “1st conviction”; born in Limerick, Ireland; Catholic; brown hair, dark hazel eyes and a fair complexion, 5’9” tall; illiterate; labourer; single; relatives/family – living in Limerick (UK, Prison Commission Records, 1770-1951; Misc.; Register of Prisoners; 1810-1822 [mislabelled]). -- 3 February, 1853: He was sent aboard the St Vincent for transportation to VDL (UK, Prison Commission Records, 1770-1951; Misc.; Register of Prisoners; 1810-1822 [mislabelled]). --00--
GIBRALTAR: 3 October, 1851: REGAN, DENNIS #1980, arrived on Gibraltar from Ireland per Rodney. He was held on the Europa hulk (UK, Prison Commission Records, 1770-1951; Misc.; Register of Prisoners; 1810-1822 [mislabelled]). Gibraltar and Bermuda were listed public works stations (and the second stage in the penal process). The Gibraltar convicts "worked together with free men on the dockyards, lines between them became blurred. Convicts, like seamen, were ‘easily recognised’ by ‘their swarthy, weather beaten complexions…[and] muscular well-knit frames’. The discipline on the penal settlement was also influenced by the naval department, who superintended part of the works. In the 1840s, for example, convicts were provided ‘a half gill of rum’ at 11am and 5pm, which they drank from a trough. This mirrored the daily allowance of diluted rum, known as grog, to Royal Naval seamen in the Victorian era. Convicts were also allowed to use part of their earnings, to buy goods, usually tobacco, which they were allowed to smoke in the evening in the barracks. Though official correspondence cited health reasons for grog allowance, it seems likely that the convict authorities feared insubordination if they were banned from drinking and smoking, which were provided to the sappers and dockyard workers whom they worked alongside… In 1854, the acting overseer stated that “half of the offences were committed when the men were excited by rum”. For more serious offences, convicts were flogged with a ‘cat o’nine tails’ whip against the ‘flogging mast’, and during an investigation Dr William Baly concluded that the whip which was used was an old naval cat, which was ‘much heavier than any now used in the government prison and hulks at home, or in the army.’” (Roscoe, Katy (2018), “Convicts and the Sea: the naval influence on Gibraltar Convict Establishment” at https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/). --
TRANSPORTED: 23 September, 1851: Denis Regan was sent to Gibraltar per Rodney. No details about the port of embarkation are given in this record (http://findingaids.nationalarchives.ie/). However, it was most likely from Portland, as per the newspaper briefs below: Hampshire Advertiser: Saturday 27 September 1851 -- The Rodney, 92, Captain Graham, CB, will soon have got her reduced complement of 343 men. Her equipment is fast being forwarded, but it is uncertain when she will proceed to Spithead. Sherborne Mercury: Tuesday 23 September 1851 -- On Monday thirty-five convicts from the Penitentiary and Millbank prisons passed through this town en route for Portland, to take the place of like number who were a few days previously embarked on board the Rodney for Van Diemen's Land (https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/). --0--