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Voyage
Transportation
Mary Foy 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 | New South Wales, Australia, Convict Indents, 1788-1842 |
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Convict Notes
County of Antrim Assizes.  Wm. McSourley, Mary Foy, and Ann McIlroy, for stealing a cloak and sundry articles the property, of James Drain,at Belfast, on 6th Nov. last. It appeared from the evidence of prosecutor, who keeps a public house in Smithfield, .that prisoners went into his house and called for some drink and, while the servant was upstairs, took the opportunity of going into an adjoining room and stealing ?? missed the goods shortly after the prisoners left the house, and got a constable to go in search of them. The constable found them all in bed in a room in a house in McGrady's, and found a cloak in one of the beds, which prosecutor identified as his property. – the prisoners were all found guilty.
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.