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Transportation
Michael Farrell was transported on the Ocean, departing 31st Jul 1815 and arriving 30th Jan 1816 with 221 passengers.
The 'Ocean' was an English merchant ship and whaler built in 1794 at South Shields, England. In 1803 she accompanied the ship 'Calcutta' to Australia, acting as a transport supply ship. When the settlers abondoned Port Phillip, Melbourne, Victoria the ship transferred convicts, settlers and marines to Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania). In 1815, 1817 & 1823 the 'Ocean' transported convicts to New South Wales.
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| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 87, Class and Piece Number HO11/2, Page Number 236; Proceedings of the Old Bailey, 1 Dec 1813. |
| Source Description | This record is one of the entries in the British convict transportation registers 1787-1867 database compiled by State Library of Queensland from British Home Office (HO) records which are available on microfilm as part of the Australian Joint Copying Pro |
| Original Source | Great Britain. Home Office |
| Compiled By | State Library of Queensland |
| Database Source | British convict transportation registers 1787-1867 database |
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Convict Notes
New South Wales, Australia, Departing Crew and Passenger Lists, 1817. No; 43/135 Ship; Harriet of London. Brig 417 Tons. Bound for England Date; 3 Dec 1817. Sailed Monday 22 Dec 1817. Michael Farrell - Free by Pardon No; 320/ Date 15 ? 1817 Elizabeth - Wife of the above, Came free in the name of Green
Personal Details - 1816 - Aged 36 Years (frst marriage at about aae 21) Born Galway, Ireland. Servant. 5ft 7inches tall. Fair complexion, Brown hair, hazel eyes. Quickly got a Ticket of LEave 15 Novemerb 1817 - FReE PARDON. Less than two years after arriving, Michael Farrell was free to return to Ireland .. and he at least went with the Riley family as their servant, although appears to have returned. 15 Nov 1817 - gave notice in Sydney Gazette that he intended departing the Colony as a servant of Alexander Riley and family, with the Riley family, in the ship "Harriett". 1819 appeasr to be back in NSW. Donation to Benevolent Society.
Michael Farrell was tried in December 1813 for bigamy. Although he married one Elizabeth Cowell in London at the parish church of St. Martin's in the Fields in April 1813, it was claimed he was already married, 16 years before, to Mary Featherstone at Nicrome, in the county of Cork, Ireland, WILLIAM FEATHERSTONE said he was a Protestant, with a sister living in Cork named Mary Feathersotne who was married at Nicrome in Cork, in January 1797 Ireland to Michael Farrell. William Featherstone had gone with her to the house of Mr Barry who was a neighbour of her employer’s, where she was married by a priest named Father O’Keith, in the presence of William Feathersonte and many other people. His sister is still alive. Chalr Calaghan labour and antive of Irland gave evidence that he was also present teh marriage. Three years before [ in 1810], Michael Farrell had gone to Margate and met a young girl named Elizabeth Cowell and represented himself to her as a dragoon, paying her a great deal of attention while she was at Maraget with her mother. When she came of age in April of this current year (1813) and into possession of “her fortune” he came to her room in Haymarket and proposed marriage. She married him the next day, against her own desire to consult with her aunt and uncle because he said that if she did not marry him he would “put an end to his Existence”. He proposed going to the bank and withdrawing £200, she thought £100 was sufficient. They went to Ireland but there they quarrelled and he left her in Ireland with no money, he returning to England. Guilty and transported for seven years. NSW Arrived on “Ocean” in January 1816