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Patrick Donohue was transported on the Portland, departing 21st Feb 1833 and arriving 26th Jun 1833 with 199 passengers.
The 'Portland' ship was built at Bristol, England in 1822, 385 tons. The 'Portland' transported convicted from Britain to Australia in 1832 & 1833. The 1833 voyage came direct from Cork, Ireland therefore all of the passengers are not yet listed on this web site.
Portland (generic)References
| Primary Source | NSW State Archive Convict Index - "Patrick DONOHUE Portland 1833 - given Conditional Pardon on 1 Feb 1849 [4/4465; Reel 791 Page 013-014]" |
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"Patrick is my direct ancestor - ggg grandfather"
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Convict Notes
Irish National Archives. Ireland – Australia Transportation Database. Document No: PPC 3655. Date 7/4/1832. Convicts: Patrick Donaghoe, age 80; Martin Donaghoe; Michael Donaghoe. Tried Galway 1831. Crime: Houghing (hoging) sheep. Sentence: Trans Life. Petitioner: Convict and 2 others, (sons) Convict was convicted with his two sons Michael & Martin, for the same offense at the Last Spring Assizes for the County. Petitioners state their brother Mathias was also indicated of the crime but later acquitted. Petitioners reside in the Parish of Monivea, Barony of Tiaquin, Co Galway. Several char refs.
The Assizes for the County Galway terminated Friday, a sitting precisely a fortnight. The following are the names of the prisoners. brought up to receive sentence immediately before the rising of Court: — … Michael, Martin and Pat Donoghoe, sheep killing, sentence of death recorded; Limerick Chronicle, 11 April 1832.
Patrick was described by the Portland Ship's Doctor, Charles Inches MD, as "A stout hale looking old man accustomed to country life". Source: Journal of the “Portland”. Male Convict Ship. Charles Inches. M D. Surgeon and Superintendent. Between the 18th day of December 1832. And the 23th day of July 1833.
ADM 101/60/5 1832-1833 Medical journal of HM convict ship Portland, from 18 December 1832 to 13 July 1833 by Charles Inches, surgeon, during which time the said ship was employed on a voyage to Sydney, New South Wales. Includes notes on an outbreak of cholera. (Described at item level). case no 4, Patrick Donoghu, aged 75, prisoner; taken ill at Cove of Cork; sick or hurt, catarrhus; put on sick list 3 February 1833, discharged 8 March 1833 cured. • Folio 37: Patrick Donoghu, aged 76, prisoner; sick or hurt, obstipation; put on sick list 24 March 1833, discharged 4 April 1833. • Folio 37: Patrick Donoghu, aged 76, prisoner; sick or hurt, hemoptysis; put on sick list 19 April 1833, discharged 28 April 1833. Folios 38-42: Surgeon's general remarks. On 28 December 1832, the guard for the convicts embarked at Deptford on board the Portland, consisting of one subaltern of the 26th Regiment, one sergeant, one corporal and 27 privates of the 21st Regiment with six women and eleven children. On 1 January 1833 we dropped down the river to Gravesend, another subaltern of the 16th Regiment having joined the ship in the interim. On 3 January 1833 we proceeded to Cove of Cork, where we arrived on 11 [January 1833], and where various affairs connected with the prisoners detained us six weeks. On 2 February 1833 we embarked 184 male convicts and on 9 February [1833] completed our number to 192. The surgeon attributed the unusual degree of sickness and the greater loss than usual in the Portland, to the prisoners being much inferior in their health and vigor than the convicts in England, their clothes in general being worse, more or less worn and thin and much inferior in quality to that served to convicts in England, together with the very restricted allowance of food in their scale of diet, which amounting to only 20 ounces a week per man. Surgeon also comments on the outbreak of cholera on board the ship, leading to panic.
1. Son Michael died in Callan Park Mental Hospital of Paralysis of the Insane or as we know it today Tertiary Syphilis. 2. When searching for records include O'Donahue / O'Donohue / Donoghue 3. The family, Michael and sons hailed from Monivea near Galway West Ireland. Patrick was married to Ellen Bourke. They allegedly had seven children. 4. In 1832 Patrick Donohue and his two sons Michael and Martin twice petitioned the Lord Lieutenant General of Ireland for clemency. These documents survive in the National Archives of Ireland. See National Archives of Ireland “Prisoners’ Petitions and Cases” PPC3655, 1832 (microfilmed as” Australian Joint Copying Project, Miscellaneous Series, reel M2141). 5. Patrick Donohue and his two sons Michael and Martin claimed that the charges against them had been brought by a man named Kenny, who had a grievance against Patrick Donohue. Kenny had previously brought charges (subsequently dismissed) against the Donohues. Although its unlikely you'll find much prior to the father and sons arriving in the colonies mainly due to the time frame see 6. 6. The civil parish of Monivea includes the RC parishes of Abbeyknockmoy and Athenry where parish records begin in 1821 and 1858 respectively. This means that for anyone born before that time there will be no baptism or marriages records available in the parishes for them. Burial records were not often kept and are usually not available until more recent times. 7. After arriving in Australian aboard the convict ship Portland in 1833, Michael and Martin (as experienced farmers) were assigned as servants to pastoralists – Martin in the Monaro district and Martin in the Hunter Valley. 8. RE pertinent to your post: Patrick was placed into government service in Port Macquarie. Son Martin was assigned to Colonel Henry Dumaresq at a property called “St Heliers” in the Hunter Valley. 9. Son Martin Donohoe received a conditional pardon on 1st February 1841. With a conditional pardon, Martin Donohoe was free to live and work in the colony but he wasn’t allowed to leave. 10. Martin Donohoe moved to St Heliers in Muswellbrook after his pardon. On 8 October 1841 he married Mary Pearson with whom he had at least five children (Matthias, Ellen, Richard, Jane and Martin). BDM 626/1841 V1841626 123) - Martin DONOGHOE – Mary PEARSON. Martin was an hotelier of “The Bull's Head” at Sandy Creek see article on Muswellbrook in the Early Days – see http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/107628691 11. We hear of Martin Donohoe again from 1854 – 1858. During this time, he was the Licensee of The Woolpack Inn at Aberdeen Road, St Heliers, District of Muswellbrook (spelt Muscle Brook!) After his 1st wife died and on 17 November 1951, Martin Donohoe married again for the 2nd time to Mary Ladrigan, a native of Tipperary. 481/1851 V1851481 97 - Martin DONOHOE – Mary LADRIGAN. My great grandfather Patrick James Donoghue is a child of the 2nd marriage. 12. Thread messages on Patrick and sons and varying events some ive also listed above. https://www.irelandxo.com/ireland/galway/monivea/message-board/donohue-family-monivea
** Sorry just realised 1870 could not be Death date with a Birth date of 1757 which would make him 113 years of age. He was 76 on arrival, Married with 7 children (2 children on board)
** 1870 was entered by someone as the Birth date but this cannot be correct & I have assumed it was meant to be the Death date
Patrick was convicted with his two sons Martin and Michael and all three were transported for life per Portland 2. They were all tried in Galway in 1832 for sheep Houghing. The sheep houghing was likely done for political reasons in reaction to the large land clearing of small farmers undertaken by English overlords in Ireland at that time.