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Transportation
Margaret Henderson was transported on the Sugar Cane, departing 12th Apr 1792 and arriving 17th Sep 1793 with 102 passengers.
Sugar Cane, was a 403 burthen ton merchantman and convict ship that was dispatched in 1793 from Ireland to Australia. She was launched in 1786 upon the Thames River. Under the command of Thomas Musgrave, she sailed from Cork, Ireland, on 12 April 1793, with 110 male and 50 female convicts. During the voyage a mutiny by the convicts was put down and a convict executed. She arrived at Port Jackson, New South Wales on the 17 September 1793. The Sugar Cane left Port Jackson for Bengal in late 1793.
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"From the information my daughter and I have found in tracing our family tree, we believe that Margaret was my 4th Great Grandmother."
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Convict Notes
Margaret Henderson was 25 when she was convicted in Dublin of stealing money. It is quite possible she intentionally committed the offence in the hope that she would be sent to New South Wales with he husband Thomas, who had been sentenced to transportation several months earlier. If this was her intention, she was successful, and sailed with Thomas aboard the Sugar Cane. Some sources suggest she gave birth to a son named John during the voyage, although I have seen no official records supporting this. A John Henderson linked into some family trees can be traced to a later convict arrival. The only confirmed child is Robert Henderson, baptised at parramatta in 1796. Margaret died in 1803. Her burial record may have been misinterpreted as a baptism by some researchers. Margaret’s son Robert became a successful landowner and businessman in the Colony and died a wealthy man.