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Voyage
Transportation
Peter Haly was transported on the Antares, departing 12th Dec 1850 and arriving 2nd Jan 1851 with 7 passengers.
131 ton schooner ship. Sailed from Auckland, New Zealand, to Hobart, Tasmania with passengers and convicts. Also from Adelaide to Hobart. Shipwrecked off the Furneaux Islands (near Tasmania) 1853 (8 lives lost).
Antares (generic)References
| Primary Source | Tasmanian Archives - Convicts: https://libraries.tas.gov.au/Record/NamesIndex/1448235 16 Feb 1859 - executed at Hobart. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/2466840 Convict record https://libraries.tas.gov.au/Digital/CON37-1-6/CON37-1-6P267 |
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Convict Notes
From convict record: 'A native of the Cape (Colony, South Africa). Copper colour. P on right arm'
Peter Haly/Haley or Heddy was convicted at Adelaide, South Australia, Supreme Court 25 Nov 1850 for horse stealing - stealing a horse from Mr. Buchanan at Mr. Bagot's Mines, Adelaide. 10yr sentence. Transported to Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania) per the 'Antares' arriving 2 Jan 1851. Aged 24yrs; single; groom; Presbyterian; 5'6"; dark complexion (copper tone); black hair (woolly); brown eyes. Native place - Symons Bay. A native of the Cape of Good Hope. Father - Peter Came to Sydney in 1839 free. Travelled overland from Sydney to Adelaide. 15mths Probation period. Cascades (south Hobart) 3 Mar 1852: at New Norfolk - horse stealing. Fully committed for trial, at New Norfolk. Guilty. Further transportation sentence - Life sentence - 4 yrs Probation Period at Cascades. 20 Apr 1855: Abscond. 21 Apr 1855: Being absent - 14 days solitary. 15 Apr 1856: Abscond. Became a bushranger. 25 Jan 1859: Hobart S.C. - shooting. Guilty. To be executed. 16 Feb 1859: Executed at Hobart Town. Known as bushranger "Black Peter". (article in the Hobart Courier 16 Feb 1859)