Summary
Personal Information
Voyage
Transportation
William Dewart was transported on the Almorah, departing 24th Aug 1820 and arriving 22nd Dec 1820 with 161 passengers.
Almorah 1. We have further to announce the arrival on Sunday morning, the 29th instant, of the ship Almorah, with 180 male prisoners, all in excellent health, consequent upon their good treatment upon the passage; she lost not a man. — This vessel sailed from the Downs the 28th of April, arrived at Rio de Janeiro the 15th of June, and sailed on the 23rd; Sydney Gazette, 30 Aug 1817. Almorah 2. Yesterday arrived from Ireland,- the ship Almorah; Captain Winter. She sailed from the Cove of Cork the 22d of August last, and brings 160 male prisoners, all in good health. Surgeon Superintendent, Dr. Alexander, R. N. The guard consists of a party of 30 men belonging to the 1st Regiment of Foot (Royals), under orders of Ensign Bruce. Sydney Gazette, 23 Dec 1820. Almorah 3. On Friday last, arrrived from Ireland, with 108 female prisoners, the ship Almorah, Captain Boyd. She sailed from Cork the 6th of April; reached no where: and, independent of the female prisoners, brings 15 free women, and 50 children. One prisoner, and one child, died on the passage. Dr. Price, R. N. is the Surgeon Superintendent. Sydney Gazette, 26 Aug 1824.
Almorah (generic)References
| Primary Source | NSW Convict Ship Muster Rolls and Related Records, 1790-1849; 1820 Almorah. Convict Indents &c; Repository: SRNSW ref:, Vol. number 4/4007, State Records of NSW, Convict Ships, ship Almorah in 1820; Volume entry number: 93. Belfast Newsletter, Fri 14 April 1820, p.4 |
Claims
No one has claimed William Dewart yet.
Photos
No photos have been added for William Dewart.
Convict Notes
WILLIAM DEWART William Dewart had received a three month prison sentence in 1819 for stealing part of a plough, and was required to give security to be honest and peaceable for seven years. In the County Down Quarter sessions of April 1820 he was again found guilty of stealing from the same man – this time a coat – and so was sentenced to be transported for seven years. Belfast Newsletter, Fri 14 April 1820, p.4 "Woodhouse Charles Moore and William Hazely, servants to Mr Samuel Bradbury, of Maze, have received from Mr William Archer, Treasurer to the Blaris and Hillsborough Associations for the Prevention of Crime, the sum of £5 sterling, being a reward paid to them for detecting and prosecuting to conviction William, alias Scape, DEWART, who was sentenced to be transported for seven years. For stealing a coat from Mr Bradbury. "The Blaris Farming Society prosecuted the same William Dewart for stealing part of a plough from Mr Bradshaw, at the 1819 Hillsborough Quarter sessions, when he was sentenced to three months imprisonment, and to give security by himself and two others to the amount of £50, to be honest and peaceable for seven years. On Convict Ship “Almorah” – William Dewart, convict, aged: 40 years. (So, born about 1780). Born at Hillsborough, in County Down, Ireland. Labourer; 5 feet 4 and ¼ inches tall; sallow complexion: brown hair: hazel eyes. Was tried at the 1820 Lent Sessions at Down, Ireland and sentenced to 7 years transportation. Transported on ship ‘Almorah’ (2), leaving 22 Dec 1820; He was recorded as being assigned in Colonial Secretary’s letters of March 18, 1822 and September 27, 1822. On lists of convicts employed by William Lawson from March 1822. Listed as “Durt” and as “Druit”. Muster, Sept 1825 – Government servant (convict) to Mr William Lawson, residence Parramatta. In March 1827 William Dewart became a free man through the expiry of the full seven years of his term. Certificate of Freedom, number 159/6233, dated 29 Mar 1827; Labourer; Aged: 47 years; Height in feet & inches: 5 feet 4 & 3/4 inches; Complexion: Sallow; Hair: Brown; Eyes: Hazel. In the last quarter of 1831 he applied to marry newly arrived seven -years convict Honora Doody, who had arrived on ‘Hooghley’ in September 1831. Honora was Irish, born at Co Kerry, and saying she was forty years old so therefore born in 1791 (although her Certificate of Freedom seven years later would record her year of birth as 1781). He applied to marry her through the Reverend Cowper. The marriage was registered in 1832 in St Phillips’ Church, Sydney, between parties recorded as William “DUART” and Honora DOWDY (NSWDBM – Marriages - 937/1832 and V1832937 16
NSW Convict Index. Honora Doody 1831, Certificate of Freedom, 3 Feb 1840, No 40/0257. Wife of William Dewart, per Almorah, 1820, (as stated on her CF)
1820, 10 July: Admitted Kilmainham Goal, Dublin; prisoner 5406; listed as a “Convict from the County Down”. 1820, 22 July: From Kilmainham, “sent on board the convict ship” (see Ireland, Prison Registers, 1790-1924, Dublin Kilmainham 1815-1910).
ALIAS: see Ireland, Prison Registers, 1790-1924 Dublin Kilmainham 1815-1910
CRIME: Stealing wearing apparel (see NSW Convict Ship Muster Rolls and Related Records, 1790-1849; 1820 Almorah)