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Voyage
Transportation
Mary Halfpenny was transported on the City Of Edinburgh (1), departing 23rd Jun 1828 and arriving 12th Nov 1828 with 82 passengers.
Departed Cork 23/6/1828. Arrived Port Jackson 12/11/1828. 80 Female Prisoners, 12 free women, 36 children [Convicts Children; 1 male and 5 female children]
City Of Edinburgh (1) (generic)References
| Primary Source | Irish Convict Database, by Peter Mayberry. |
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Convict Notes
The following is a list of the prisoners sentenced at our Assizes: … County. —… Mary Halfpenny, James Downey, John Curreen, James Kennedy, Matthew Keane, James Mulvahy, Honora Crotty, Michael Moore, and Wm. Brien, transportation for seven years ; ... Waterford Mail, 26 March 1828.
Margaret Fitzgerald, indicted for stealing few ? of wearing apparel from Elizabeth Mansfield, poor woman from Templemore, sojourning at Tramore, on the 19lh September last, was found Guilty. Not sentenced. Mary Halfpenny was next tried for a similar larceny on the 1?th of April, in the house of Michael Fitzgerald, at Kilmeaden (where she had been afforded a lodging for the night), was also found Guilty, but not then sentenced. Waterford Mail, 22 March 1828.
Irish Convict Database, by Peter Mayberry. Mary Halfpenny, age on arrival, 19, per City of Edinburgh (1) 1828, Tried Waterford, 1828, 7 years, for Robbery house. DOB 1809, native place, Waterford Co. single. Catholic. Servant farm.