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Voyage
Transportation
Thomas Gately was transported on the Cambridge, departing 2nd Jun 1827 and arriving 17th Sep 1827 with 71 passengers.
Departed Dublin 2/6/1827 Arrived Port Jackson 17/9/1827
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Convict Notes
John Keaghran, Thomas Gately, James Fallon and Terence Cusack, transported for their natural lives—The sentence to be carried into immediate execution, to Keaghran and Gately. Roscommon & Leitrim Gazette, 17 March 1827.
ADM 101/15/5 1827 Medical journal of the Cambridge, convict ship, for 10 May to 29 September 1827 by William Gregor, Surgeon and Superintendent, during which time the said ship was employed as a transport. Folios 24-28: Thomas Gately, aged 39, prisoner, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, singultus, while on deck complained through an interpreter (being unable to converse in any language, but his native Irish) that he had been affected with painful hiccups; put on sick list, 8 June 1827, died 18 June 1827 off Island of Palma.
New South Wales, Australia, Convict Indents, Warrants of the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. 1827, Cambridge No; 151 Name; Thomas Gately. Age; 44. [1783] Offence; Illegal Oaths - Trial; Roscommon - Life Height; 5 ft. 9 in Complexion; Fresh Hair; Brown Eyes; Hazel ------------------------
UK, Royal Navy Medical Journals, Ship: Cambridge Name; Thos Gately Age; 39 [1788] Disease; Date; 8 June 1827 Notes; Of meager habit and sallow complexion and great dejection of mind... Has been confined in various prisons for about 8 months ..... Constantly fretted about his wife and children.... Discharged; Gradual decline and expired 18 Jun 1827 -----------------------
Thomas Gately was transported from Ireland to New South Wales, Australia on the 'Cambridge' 1827 - he however died on the voyage (ship surgeon's log - singultus (hiccups) ). Note on record that he only spoke Irish Gaelic and did not understand English.