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Mary Gibbons was transported on the Andromeda, departing 30th Nov 1833 and arriving 17th Sep 1834 with 176 passengers.
Also, same day, from Cork, whence she sailed May 25th, the ship Andromeda, 401 tons, Benjamin Gales master, with 173 female prisoners; Henry Kelsawl, Esq., Surgeon-superintendant. Passengers — Fourteen free females, viz. Mary Manning, Martha Morron, Margaret Mahon, Margaret Sheedy, Mary Ann Nixon alias Welsh, Catherine Kiernan, Mary Cassock, Catherine Stanton, Johanna Neville, Mary Lyons alias Hynes, Maria Moran, Catherine O'Donnel, Margaret Kennedy, and Mary Sullivan, and twenty-six children; also twenty-three children belonging to the prisoners. Sydney Monitor, 20 Sept 1834.
Andromeda (generic)References
| Primary Source | New South Wales, Australia, Convict Indents, 1788-1842 Bound Indentures 1834-1835 |
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Convict Notes
From Co Galway Ireland Single with 3 boys and 1 girl Roman Catholic could not read or write. Stole shawls 5' 2 1/4" Sallow complexion dark brown hair grey to blue eyes. New South Wales, Australia, Settler and Convict Lists, 1787-1834 New South Wales Convicts arrived 1833-1834 Assigned J Pike Hawksberry River. New South Wales, Australia, Gaol Description and Entrance Books, 1818-1930 for Mary Gibbons 4/4/1835 9 months in the factory at 3rd class The Sydney Monitor (NSW : 1828 - 1838) Wed 8 Apr 1835 Page 2 Mary Gibbons, assigned to William Dunshea, was placed at the bar on a charge of insolence and pilfering. It appeared from the evidence of Mr. Dunshea and the constable who apprehended the prisoner, that on the previous evening she had refused to do her work, and was extremely insolent to her mistress, who sent for a constable to take her to the watchhouse. Before the constable arrived, the prisoner went into the yard and was seen to take two aprons from a line which she secreted among her clothes. This case occupied consider able time owing to the prisoner's volubility, and her pretending not to understand any thing but Irish,with which she entertained the court. Six months to the third class. Upon hearing this sentence, Mary put on one of her best looks and curtseying very low exclaimed, "Musha good luck to y'r honors," but upon being informed that this was in addition to her original sentence she knelt down, and with great gesticulation poured forth a volley of Irish which Colonel Wilson informed the Bench was invoking seven thousand curses on their heads.