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Patrick Furlong was transported on the Hercules, departing 3rd Jul 1830 and arriving 1st Nov 1830 with 205 passengers.
The "Hercules" ship was built in 1801 at South Sheilds, England. 1801 voyage from Ireland to New South Wales, Australia. Sailed via Rio de Janeiro and the Cape. A mutiny occurred just prior to their arrival at Rio - after 45 minutes it was quashed but 13 convicts had been killed. Jeremiah Pendergass was named as the ring leader and shot. 44 deaths in total on this voyage. There was then another ship, also named, "Hercules" built 1822 at Whitby, England who made 3 trips to Austraia, in 1825, 1830 & 1832.
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Scailtin seemed to be their downfall! Scailtin (Irish Whiskey Milk Punch) is a beverage dating back to the 1700's. Some early versions of this recipe were served in a punch bowl. Alcohol was used as a preservative, so the beverage was also sold bottled. This was such a popular drink that in 1838 Queen Victoria granted Nathaniel's Whissof's company exclusive rights to be the sole purveyors of scailtin to the crown.
Recorder’s Court. THIRTEEN THIEVES. The Recorder, with Aldermen M'Kenny and Fleming, presiding. Patrick Furlong, John Magennes, John Rooney, Catherine Rooney, Ellen Donovan, Eliza Studdart, Catherine Murphy, Eliza Fitzierald, Mary Bennett, Anne Tierney, Ellen Dawson, Ellen Bryant and Jane Lawler, stood indicted for stealing two kegs, four gallons whiskey and twenty pounds sugar, the property of Patrick Kernan, from his house in Halston-street, on the night of Friday last. The trial of these persons was interesting, chiefly from the circumstances of their being arrested about seven o'clock on Saturday morning, a few hours after the commission of the robbery, while regaling themselves on scatldez, for which Mr. Kernan's shop had supplied the necessary ingredients,-and of Furlong, who is a good looking, respectable and intelligent man in appearance, being now about to yield to those laws which, for the last fifteen years, he has been transgressing with a notorious impunity. Patrick Kiernan, waiter to the proprietor of the house, No. 8, Halston-street, deposed -I examined the house on the on the night of the 27th March, at 10 o'clock, when all was right, and I closed it up; about six the next morning, when I went there from my master's residence, I found the door broken open, and the shutters taken down ; two panels were taken out of the shutters, two kegs with spirits and two loaves lump sugar carried away ; I cannot identify the kegs or sugar now produced' as my master's property-but there were kegs like them in the house, and I can identify the broken shutter on the table, it was left in the house on the morning of the 27th ... I found the keg on the table; it was wet, and from the smell l am of opinion it was spirits that wetted it; Mr. Kernan instantly identified it as his property; Mrs. Donovan denied any knowledge of it, and so did Furlong; I found five or six gallons of whiskey in a butter tub near the fire; with the assistance of some watchmen we made the prisoners get up, and removed them to Church-street watch-house; Bennet and Furlong endeavoured to escape; Bennet made great resistance; I got the two loaves of: sugar among some ashes in a recess under the stairs; all the prisoners denied any knowledge of the whiskey, sugar, and keg; there were bottles of whiskey, glasses, and a bowl containing spirits, which I tasted some of the prisoners were asleep in the inner room, the rest were awake in the shop, amongst whom was Furlong, who appeared drunk; all the parties, except Rooney, had their clothes on, even those lying in the beds. Cross-examined -I found no implements there of the kind used in housebreaking; I don't recollect that Mary Bennet was charged with stealing a communion cross out of Denmark-street Chapel, though I know her well. Henry Damsela, private 8th Foot -I was sentry at the corner of Halston-street on the night of the 26th; Kernan's house is about sixty yards from the sentry-box; about two in the morning I saw through the door a light and people inside; there were upwards of a dozen persons passing to and fro' out of the door and round the corner of Newgate; I left my post at three o'clock; the light was then gone; no watchman frequents that street, at least I did not hear one during the two hours that I was on guard. Cross-examined-I heard no noise like house breaking. Another witness was examined, from whom no material fact was elicited. The jury returned a verdict, finding all the prisoners guilty, some of whom set up hideous lamentations in the Court, while others seemed regardless of their fate. The RECORDER, in pronouncing …. to the long career of iniquity of Furlong - and to his frequent exhibitions in that Court, since he came to preside in it; him and Tierney and Eliza Studdart, be sentenced to seven years' transportation; John Magennis to seven (months) ,Rooney to six months' imprisonment in the Newgate; and all the others to the same in the Smithfield Penitentiary, and hard labour. During the observations of the learned Recorder, he was frequently interrupted by some very severe remarks from Furlong, who, amongst Other things said This is, indeed an unhappy situation, a man who knows nothing at all about the matter was found guilty without a cringe, and you hang the innocent while you let the guilty escape. Freeman’s Journal, 2 April 1830.
Irish Convict Database, by Peter Mayberry. Patrick or John Furlong, age on arrival, 36, per Hercules II (2) 1830. Tried at Dublin City, 1830, 7 years for Stealing spirits burglary. 1 former conviction. DOB, 1794, Native place, Cork. single, Catholic, Trade, Publican.