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Voyage
Transportation
Laurence Gorman was transported on the Bencoolen, departing 24th Apr 1819 and arriving 25th Aug 1819 with 153 passengers.
Departed from Cork. 150 Male passengers - no deaths. 123 of the convicts were trans-shipped to Van Diemens Land in the Admiral Cockburn, arriving there in September 1819.
Bencoolen (generic)References
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Convict Notes
Before Justice Jebb, and a respectable Jury. Laurence Gorman, Henry Rice, and James Malone, for burglary and robbery in the house of Jane Townsend. Jane Townsend sworn—Resides at Galloping green Co. Dublin; is a widow; the of January about three o’clock in the morning, was alarmed, has a little boy ; saw a light, and three men breaking open the bar door; keeps a public-house, and sells buxiery?; one the men had pitchfork, and another had pistol; they ransacked all the papers, but found no money; they then went into the room where the money was, and she threw herself on her knees, and implored them not ill use her; one of the men threw the priming out his pistol; she opened the drawer and gave them what was in it; she also took what silver was there and put it on table, which one of the men took up and pin in his pocket; she threw what notes and other property she had behind her bed and ; in her pocket-book there were two good notes, a forgery, and some papers—(pocket-book, papers, and the forged note produced and identified); the robbers remained in the house about an hour, and took every thing she had in the world ; did not leave her a five-penny piece ; saw three men in the house, and one walking outside as if on guard ; fully identifies the prisoners Gorman and Rice; the former of whom saved her life; she cannot identify Malone; Rice had a dark handkerchief round his head ; they confined her in a Cellar. (Here the prisoner Gorman called upon Mrs. to admit that it was from his confession that them were taken.) Michael Burke (an approver) sworn.—Knows the widow Townsend house, ... Saunders News-Letter, 23 Feb 1819. Laurence Gorman and Henry Rice for burglary and robbery, at the house of Mrs. Jane Townsend, Galloping-green, County of Dublin— Death. Mr. Justice Jebb observed that in compliance with the recommendation of the Jury, as well as the actuation of his own feelings, he would submit the case of those unhappy men to the consideration of Government—at the same time exhorted them not to be deluded by such hopes, but to employ their time in religious atonement for their offences. Saunders News-Letter, 20 Feb 1819.
Irish Convict Database by Peter Mayberry. Laurence Gorman, age on arrival, 35, Bencoolen, 1819. Tried 1819 at Dublin Co., Life. DOB 1784, Native place, Kildare Co.. Trade, Labourer.