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Transportation
William Gahan was transported on the Eliza, departing 2nd Mar 1829 and arriving 20th Jun 1829 with 45 passengers.
The Eliza was a 511-ton (later 538 ton) merchant ship built in British India in 1806. She made five voyages transporting convicts from England and Ireland to Australia.
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Convict Notes
William Gahan was 23 years old when transported for "Firearms/Burglary". He was a Whiteboy Rebel and he was single. William had been assigned to the Liscombe's station where Ralph Entwistle had also been assigned. Ralph Entwistle had been badly treated, and decided to rebel, taking other convicts with him, including William, and started the "Ribbon Gang". The Ribbon Gang became bushrangers, murdering James Greenwood, an overseer, who would'nt let the convicts under his care join the gang, so they shot him, and also carried out burglaries and terrorising people. They were caught at the Abercrombie Caves, sentenced to death at Bathurst and hanged on 2/11/1830. 10 convicts were hanged, Ralph Entwistle, Michael Kearney, Patrick Gleeson, Thomas Dunn, John Shepherd, Robert Webster, John Kenny Domonic Daley, James Driver and William Gahan.