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Transportation
John Falvey was transported on the Andromeda, departing 28th Aug 1830 and arriving 18th Dec 1830 with 71 passengers.
Also, same day, from Cork, whence she sailed May 25th, the ship Andromeda, 401 tons, Benjamin Gales master, with 173 female prisoners; Henry Kelsawl, Esq., Surgeon-superintendant. Passengers — Fourteen free females, viz. Mary Manning, Martha Morron, Margaret Mahon, Margaret Sheedy, Mary Ann Nixon alias Welsh, Catherine Kiernan, Mary Cassock, Catherine Stanton, Johanna Neville, Mary Lyons alias Hynes, Maria Moran, Catherine O'Donnel, Margaret Kennedy, and Mary Sullivan, and twenty-six children; also twenty-three children belonging to the prisoners. Sydney Monitor, 20 Sept 1834.
Andromeda (generic)References
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Convict Notes
CITY CRIMINAL COURT, THURSDAY John Falvey was indicted for stealing £2 2s, the property Mary Barry. The prisoner had lodged for some time in the house the prosecutrix, and promised pay her when his pension would become due. the day appointed for paying the pensioners at Ballincollig, she went there, accompanied by her husband, and received four or five shillings from another pensioner, half which. she gave her husband, and the other half she put in her bosom, in the course of the day, the prisoner called her out of public-house, and said wanted to pay her, and asked her for change out of his bill, which she was about to hand him, when prisoner put his hand in her bosom, and forcibly took from her two pounds two shillings. This statement was corroborated John Barry, the husband of the prosecutrix.—Guilty. To be transported for seven years. Southern Reporter, 27 March 1830. John Falvey was a pensioner - which means he had been a soldier, and now received a pension due to injury or disability.
Irish Convict Database, by Peter Mayberry. John Falvey, age 33, Per Andromeda II 1830, Tried 1830 at Cork, 7 years, for Swindling. DOB, 1797, Native place, Limerick. Single, Catholic, Trade, Soldier carman.