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Bridget Hayes was transported on the Roslin Castle (Roslyn Castle), departing 28th Oct 1835 and arriving 25th Feb 1836 with 165 passengers.
Built in Bristol, England. Launched in 1819. 450 ton ship. Five voyages to Australia transporting convict persons. Children of convicts were also transported but considered "free settlers" and not listed by name. The 1832/33 & 1835/36 voyages do not yet have complete lists of passengers - currently being updated. Please note this if searching for individual persons.
Roslin Castle (Roslyn Castle) (generic)References
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Description at age 27yrs 25 Feb 1836 - Colonial Sydney Australia Scar top of centre of forehead, scar right eyebrow, mark of a burn back of lower right arm, and another back of same wrist, another back of left hands Bridget Hayes, 27,cannot read or write, Roman Catholic, Widow, child 1 male on board 18 months old, trade kitchen maid, sentence 7 years, no former convictions, height 4ft 10 and half ins, complexion freckled, hair brown, eyes dark hazel, After arriving in Sydney Bridget spent some time working in the convict factory at Parramatta. Requested to Married William Brooks was refused 13 June 1837, ship Marquis of Hastings age 37y sentence 7 years, he was free to married. Bridget was still under Bond. Marriage 5 Jul 1839 - St. Lawrence Sydney, New South Wales, Australia James Savage arrived 1830, on the James Patterson 1. Application date to marry 18 July 1839, St Lawrence Sydney New South Wales Australia. Age 27y sentence 7years condition Free, Bridget condition Bond, widow. Marriage 24 June 1841 - liverpool, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Requested to marry, Cornelius Reading arrive ship Ocean age 35y sentence Life, Bridget condition was stated Free. Death 7 Aug 1881 - Mt Pleasant, Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia Cause of death Apoplexy (Stroke) Death Transcription from New South Wales. age, 68. Occupation Nurse.cause of death Apoplexy, born Tipperary Ireland, 40 years in colony, married age 28, Burial Point Clare, Central Coast Council, New South Wales, Australia
Unfortunate Fortune-tellers—At the Limerick Assizes, on Friday, Johanna Sweeny, Bridget Hayes, and Johanna Galvin, fortune-tellers, were found guilty of stealing money and apparel from John and Anaslasia Carthy, and sentenced to be transported for seven years The Pilot, 12 March 1834.
ADM 101/64/7B1835-1836 Medical and surgical journal of His Majesty's Convict Ship, Roslin Castle, for 15 September 1835 to 14 March 1836 by John Edwards, Surgeon. (Described at item level). Folio 28: Surgeon's general remarks. 'The convicts embarked at Cork on board the Roslin Castle consisted of 182 women and 49 children, many of the latter at the breast of the former, a large majority was of the worst description, morally and physically. A more filthy, indolent and reprobate set of women were never expatriated'. Most had been in prison more than a year and many were sent from the hospital as incurable. Adverse weather increased the sea sickness at the start of the voyage and many of the women suffered the consequences even after the bad weather ceased. There were many long lasting cases of gastric irritability and some of the old women were nursed all through the voyage. Obstinate obstruction of the bowels was also a general consequence, made worse by the women not reporting it for 10 or 15 days. The bowel conditions were made worse by the change in diet from the low hospital diet to the ship's dry provisions and by existing diseases from leading dissipated lives. A week after leaving harbour a case of fever developed [Joanna Reilly?] which had been disguised in its early stages by sea sickness. It quickly assumed a typhoid form and, when the patient died, caused great alarm among the prisoners. This did have the effect of encouraging the prisoners to keep themselves and the prison clean, 'yet even after this, from time to time, the filthy habits of some among them in the night about the water closets was a source of great annoyance to the people in the contiguous berths and of anxiety and vexation to myself'. Other cases of fever were very mild. Two other women died in the voyage, one [Sarah Lineham] died of dropsy induced by her refusing medicine for long continued visceral obstruction, the other [Anne Foley] died in the night. Her infant was obliged to be weaned but partly from bad nursing and a cachetic habit of body, it died shortly afterwards of diarrhoea. Three other infants of strumous diathesis and suffering abdominal diseases died. Most of the other cases were unremarkable, mostly of a chronic character, nearly half the convicts had some chronic pain and 40 of them, mostly young, applied for emmenagogues to relieve long standing catamenial suppression. Few of the women became reconciled to their new diet, they especially objected to cocoa and after a few days it was thrown away and tea substituted, even this did not suit some who had never had tea before. 'They had an incessant, almost morbid, longing for potatoes, for which they would have sacrificed everything else'. Signed John Edwards.
New South Wales, Australia, Convict Indents. Indent No; 204 - 36. 62. Age;27 years old Status; Widow. 1 male child aged 18 months ON BOARD Native Place; Limerick Trade; Kitchen maid and nursemaid Trial; Spring assises 1834.