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Transportation
Mary Dunn was transported on the Palambam, departing 23rd Mar 1831 and arriving 31st Jul 1831 with 122 passengers.
394 tons. 1831 voyage from Cork, Ireland to New South Wales, Australia. Capt. Willis. 114 female prisoners. Also 50 girls from the Foundling Hospital, Cork with 2 Matrons and their husbands and children. Also 4 female wives of convicts already in Australia and their children. Register of passengers currently being updated and not yet complete.
Palambam (generic)References
| Primary Source | Sydney Gazette, 20 Dec 1832. Irish Convict Database by Peter Mayberry. --- New South Wales, Australia, Convict Indents, 1788-1842 |
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Convict Notes
Convict Application to Marry John Carty, per Hooghley (1), age 30, 7 years, Free; and Mary Dunn, per Palambam, age 28, 7 years, Bond. Date of permission: 2 Dec 1833. Sydney, RCC. NSW BMD Marriage Reg: 132/1834 John McCarthy and Mary Dunn, LD district (Catholic, Sydney St Mary’s) NSW Convict Index. Mary Dunn, per Palambam, 1831, Certificate of Freedom, 6 Jan 1846, No 46/0021.
Absconded. Dunn Mary, Palambam, 35, Belfast, nursemaid, 5 feet 2¾ inches, pale and freckled comp., dark-brown hair, hazel eyes, circular scar on right side of forehead, and scar at right temple, from John Rowley, Burwood, since 10th instant. NSW Govt Gazette, 16 Sept 1840.
Committed by the Police Magistrate to Carrickfergis.gaol for trial at the Assizes :- … Mary Dunn and Mary Hamill, with decoying a countryman into a house of ill fame and robbing him of 9? and upward; … Belfast News-Letter, 26 March 1830. SENTENCES AT THESE ASSIZES. Death Jane Graham. Sentence of Death Recorded.—John Lennon, Wm. Ball, Daniel Gartley, Sarah Tolan, Bridget Gallagher, Robert Aiken, Henry Carter, John Molloy, Mary Hamill, Mary Dunn. Transportation.—For life—Thomas Moore. For 14 years, James Robinson. For 7 years—Francis Howard, Mary Gilhoolly, Catherine Burns, William Marshall, Margaret Smith, Arthur O'Brien, William M‘Sourley, Mary Foy, Wm. Logan, Thomas Ford, Patrick Byrne, Robert Platt, Mary Whiteside, Michael Latton, Thomas Healy, Eliza Martin, Wm. Smith and Maryann Devlin. Newry Telegraph, 2 April 1830.
Irish Convict Database by Peter Mayberry. Mary Dunn, alias Dunne; age 26, ship Palambam (1831); tried at Belfast Antrim Co, 1830, 7 years for robbery man. Single. Native of Carrickfergus Antrim Co. Trade - Nurse maid. catholic. DOB 1805. ----------------------------------------------- Sydney Gazette, 20 Dec 1832. LIST OF ALL FEMALE CONVICTS ASSIGNED AND TRANSFERRED FROM THE 1st TO THE 31st OCTOBER 1832. 1627. Dunn Mary, Palambam, general servant, to Ellen Rochester, Sydney