Summary
Personal Information
Voyage
Transportation
Garrett Fitzgerald was transported on the Mangles, departing 27th Sep 1825 and arriving 18th Feb 1826 with 192 passengers.
ManglesReferences
| Primary Source | State Records Authority of New South Wales, Record Set: Australia Convict Ships 1786-1849, Series: Indents 1788-1842 (Nrs 12188), Reel: 397. New South Wales And Tasmania: Settlers And Convicts 1787-1859. New South Wales Registers Of Convicts' Applications To Marry 1825-1851. https://www.freesettlerorfelon.com/convict_ship_mangles_1826.htm http://members.pcug.org.au/~ppmay/cgi-bin/irish/irish.cgi?requestType=Search2&id=9912 |
Claims
"believed direct descendant"
Photos
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Convict Notes
NSW 1828 Census Index. Garret Fitzgerald, age 26, G.S. per Mangles, 1826, life, catholic, Servant, to Eml. Hungerford, Wallis Plains district.
Sentences in the County of Limerick—Cornelius Keating, Thomas Wall. Garrett Fitzgerald. James Keane, and Patrick Connolly, to be hanged, day not fixed ; Roscommon and Leitrim Gazette, 6 Aug 1825. --------------------------------------------------------------- Limerick, August 10. Yesterday an order was received in received in town from Dublin Castle, to stay the execution, until further orders, of four criminals convicted our last Assizes; Thos. Wall for assault, burglary and robbery, the house of Mr. Wm. Bourke, at Rathnasere; James Garrett Fitzgerald, and James Keane, for burglary in the dwelling of Patrick Cleary, at Hospital; and Patrick Connolly, for burglary in the dwelling of Patrick Sullivan, at Kilmacat. No respite has been received for Connor Keating, the accomplice of Wall, who is to be hanged on this day week, the 17th inst. Southern Reporter, 13 Aug 1825.
Irish Convict Database by Peter Mayberry. Garrett Fitzgerald, age on arrival, 26, per Mangles (4) 1826, Tried Limerick, 1825, Life, for Insurrection. White Boy rebel. DOB, 1800, native place, Limerick. Married, Catholic, Trade, labourer farmers. ---------------------------------------------------------------
Prisoner no: 34/566 Convicted in Limerick, Ireland, on 25 July 1825, under the Insurrection Act as a member of the 'Whiteboys'. They were a secret Irish agrarian organisation in 18th-century Ireland which took vigilante action to defend tenants’ land rights to subsistence farming. (The name refers to their custom of wearing white smocks during their nightly raids.) May have married Francis Wheeler in 1834 (they applied for permission to marry). Marries Eliza Fitzgerald in 1837 in Maitland, NSW. Pardoned in 1842.
Prisoner no: 34/566 Convicted: 25 July 1825 Tried under the Insurrection Act. Marries convict Francis Wheeler.