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Transportation
Martin Egan was transported on the Boyd, departing 10th Mar 1809 and arriving 14th Aug 1809 with 144 passengers.
395 ton ship. Departed Cork, Ireland for New South Wales, Australia 1809. After leaving Australia, for New Zealand, the vessel was set upon by natives from Bay of Islands and most onboard the ship were massacred (including cannibalization). The boat was captured and towed to Motu Wai (Red Island) were it was totally destroyed.
Boyd (generic)References
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Convict Notes
The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser An extraordinary development of a murder six weeks since committed on Thomas Conroy, a stock- man to D'ARCY WENTWORTH, Esq is, fortunately for the ends of Justice and Humanity, now more than likely to take place. Martin Egan and Thomas Clough, both fellow servants to the deceased, are in custody on the charge ; and as far as the enquiry at present extends the suspected crime appears to have been accompanied with circumstances of extreme hardihood. In the course of the ensuing week it is expected a public investigation of the facts will take place as the whole of the evidence will be then concentrated ; and then, upon certain grounds of authority the lamentable particulars will be laid before the Public. On Wednesday Thomas Clough and Martin Egan underwent an examination before D'Arcy Wentworth Esq. Superintendent of the Police, charged on suspicion with the willful murder of Thomas Conroy. The circumstances of the case were, that the deceased and the prisoners were stockmen on a farm of Mr. Wentworth's ; and was suddenly missed by the hut-keeper, who upon enquiry was informed by the prisoners that he had gone to Sydney for the purpose of attempting to effect his escape from the Colony ; that the same night one of them was particularly attentive to the burning of a fire near the hut, for which he gave no reasonable account further than he was desirous of burning down a tree that stood there; that some days after the hut keeper found the shoes, a knife, and some other things that had belonged to the deceased, at the place where the fire had been ; that they both left the farm, and one afterwards called for the cloths left by the de- ceased ; and that a suspicion being excited in the hut-keeper's mind by the various observations he had made, he searched about, and found in a hole under a pile of stones many burnt fragments of bone, which prove to have been these of a human body. The guilt or innocence's of the prisoners will therefore become a subject of investigation before a Criminal Court.
New South Wales, Australia Convict Ship Muster Rolls and Related Records,1809 - Boyd Age; 32. Trial; Dublin City. December - 1807. 7 years.
10 May 1811 – Hanged at Sydney for the murder of Thomas Cooney. After being executed his body was handed over to surgeons for dissection and anatomisation.