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Voyage
Transportation
John Heaney was transported on the Prince Regent, departing 17th Sep 1819 and arriving 27th Jan 1820 with 162 passengers.
Prince Regent, 1820-21. On Tuesday arrived from Ireland, the ship Prince Regent, Captain Clifford. She left the Cove of Cork the 19th of September last, and brings, in excellent health, 144 male prisoners. Surgeon Superintendent, Dr. Taylor, R. N. The guard comprises 30 men of the 1st Foot (Royals), under orders of Lieut. Lewis. Sydney Gazette, 13 Jan 1821.
Prince Regent (generic)References
| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 88, Class and Piece Number HO11/3, Page Number 235(119) OLD BAILEY Reports On line, 28 Oct 1818. |
| Source Description | This record is one of the entries in the British convict transportation registers 1787-1867 database compiled by State Library of Queensland from British Home Office (HO) records which are available on microfilm as part of the Australian Joint Copying Pro |
| Original Source | Great Britain. Home Office |
| Compiled By | State Library of Queensland |
| Database Source | British convict transportation registers 1787-1867 database |
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Convict Notes
John Heaney was born at Middlesex. With his surname, he probably had Irish parents. He was a cattle herd. which examined why he worked sometimes in Stratford. He was 5ft 4, of fair ruddy complexion with dark brown hair and hazel eyes. He remained a convict for the whole seven years until 1825. In 1822 he was working on Rose’s road party and had been selected for the gang to clear on Samuel Marsden’s estate. He was still on Marsden’s estate in December 1824, when he had to appear before the Magistrate’s Bench at Parramatta. In September 1825 he was on a clearing party of Mr Bowman at Melville. However it was reported in the Sydney Gazette of 3rd November 1828 that he had received his Certificate of Freedom. By the 1828 Census, he was Free by Servitude and working as a driver at John Tinsdale’s farm at Bathurst. Supposedly aged 29, and a Protestant. his age here would have made him aged 19 in 1818. However, he ask also recorded as being in Gaol in Bathurst in 1828, recorded as aged 31. He probably remained in the employ of William Tindale for many years because John Heaney of Crabby Creek, Goulburn, advertised in the SMH 7 June 1847, page 3 for a mare lost from Bylong, with information to be brought to Mr W. Tindale at Dabee, or to John Heaney.
John Heaney was 28 years old according to the Old Bailey Records (23 according to ship’s indent) when he was found guilty, at the Old Bailey on 28 October 1818, of stealing a jacket and pair of trousers from John Organ, and was transported for 7 years on “Prince Regent”. John Organ, the victim, was a coal-porter who lived at Stratford. John Heaney “often slept in the same room” with him. So Heaney must have travelled to Stratford regularly. On the 17th September, John Organ found his bedroom windows wide open, and a ladder near the window-part where his family slept in the room. His jacket and trousers were missing. A Stepney patrol man found the jacket in the road. However, a chaff-cutter claimed to have found both jacket and trousers in the loft at another place - perhaps it was meant to be reported as shirt and trousers. Heaney lodged in the same house as James Boulcot, who worked as a private watchman to a Mr Gunn in the Commercial Road. Boulcot gave evidence against him. When Heaney had been lodged in prison, charged with the offence, Boulcot took him some food and Heaney told him that a jacket, a pair of trowsers, and a shirt were lodged in Mr. Gunn's hay-loft. He asked Boulcot to “pledge” them, which means take them to a pawnbrokers and get money for then. Boulcot reported to the court that Mr Gunn’s chaff-cutter had found the clothes there. John Heaney was found guilty of stealing the goods - value total 7s - and sentenced to transportation for seven years.