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Patrick Grace was transported on the Countess Of Harcourt, departing 3rd Sep 1822 and arriving 21st Dec 1822 with 173 passengers.
Ship of 517 tons, built in India 1811. Voyages to NSW and VDL 1821, 1822, 1824, 1827 & 1828. Researchers please note that sailings direct from Ireland to Australia are not recorded under British data, and therefore not all details of people are on this web site (they are being added in, by volunteers, so please check thoroughly or send a message on community fb if you have queries).
Countess Of Harcourt (generic)References
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Convict Notes
ADM 101/18/2 1822 Medical journal of the Countess of Harcourt, convict ship, for 12 July to 26 December 1822 by Robert Armstrong, surgeon and superintendent, during which time the said ship was employed on a voyage to New South Wales. Folio 23: Patrick Grace, aged 20, taken ill at Sydney; disease or hurt, put on sick list on 7th instant with constipation, loss of appetite and general debility. Put on sick list, 22 December 1822, sent 22 December 1822 to hospital at Sydney.
Patrick Grace was 20 years old on arrival in NSW. Birth dates for Patrick varied: 1799, 1802, 1804. 23/1/1823: Assigned to William Elyard at Picton. 1825 Muster: Assigned to Mr. Smithers, Sydney. 1828 Census: Working as an overseer for James Smithers at Camden. 7/4/1829: COF 4/4/1834: Married Mary Ann Dwyer/Hughes at St Mary's, Sydney. They had 4 children: James Grace b 1835-1904 John Grace b 1837-1901 Catherine Mary Grace b 1844 Patrick Grace. Mary Ann was the widow of William Hughes who died in 1828 – they had 1 son William Hughes. 29/4/1872: Patrick died in South Australia, aged 73. Death registered, Barossa, South Australia.
Patrick Grace – born in Co. Wicklow, aged 20, labourer, (an 1825 muster shows him as a general servant to Mr Smithers in Sydney). He got his Certificate of Freedom on April 7 1829. In Sydney, he married Mary Ann Hughes nee Dwyer, a widow, eldest daughter of Michael Dwyer of 1798 and Glen of Imaal fame.(Michael Dwyer had held out in the Wicklow Mountains until late 1803 when he agreed to surrender with guaranteed safe passage to America. The British government reneged on this agreement and held Dwyer in Kilmainham Gaol for two years before exiling him and his young family to Australia.) Patrick Grace had 3 children with Mary Ann and died in 1872 at Shea-Oak Log near Adelaide in South Australia where he had lived as a farmer.