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Thomas Hennaghan was transported on the Eliza, departing 10th May 1832 and arriving 6th Sep 1832 with 196 passengers.
The Eliza was a 511-ton (later 538 ton) merchant ship built in British India in 1806. She made five voyages transporting convicts from England and Ireland to Australia.
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Thomas Henaghan was indicted for the wilful murder of John at Westport, on the 13th December, by giving him blow of an iron bar the head, of which he languished and died in four days. Mary Parks stated that she knew the deceased John Parks ; he was killed in Westport on a Thursday night, three weeks before Christmas twelve month ; witness is sister in law to deceased ;the deceased, witness, her husband and daughter were walking in the street when Thomas Henaghan the prisoner, whom she identifies, came up with them ; he had a piece of iron in his hand, a short piece, Henaghan, came to deceased, and knocked him down; her husband also fell at the same time ; attempted to strike a second bllow at deceased and witness cried murder—that he was killed, and made off; deceased was carried into Doctor Bourke’s ; her husband was carried down Peter Heraghtv’s by two men ; the deceasod died the following, they were five or six minutes after leaving Heraghty's when the deceased was struck the prisoner was in Heraghtys when they wore coming out of it; the prisoner is relation the witness. Cross examined Mr. Blakeny-They drank a noggin whiskey in Heraghty’s. but prisoner was not with, was walking up and down the shop ; saw the bar ... Mayo Constitution, 22 March 1832. MAYO ASSIZES. CROWN COURT THURSDAY. On passing sentence upon Thomas Henaghan, who was convicted the manslaughter of Parkes at Westport, Mr. Justice Vandeleur addressed him as follows: Thomas Henaghan you have been tried and found guilty of the crime of manslaughter and I would be guilty of a deriliction of duty, as Judge and a Christian, if I was to suffer you to depart from the place where you now are, without endeavouring to bring you to a sense of the enormity of the offence of which you have been convicted. Upon referring to the records of this Court, I find that efforts to reform you have proved unsuccessful —by these I find that before me. some years, and not many years ago, you were convicted of a similar offence. I trust that on that occasion I endeavoured to impress on your mind, that you had been found guilty of a breach of one of the first laws of your Creator. which is, Thou shalt not commit murder.’ The lenity of the law on that occasion, did not make your life pay the forfeit of having deprived another of his life ; and the records of the court that on that occasion, l sentenced you to imprisonment in the hope and belief that reflection would be the means inducing never again to raise your hand against the life a fellow creature. Unfortunately neither what aid nor reflection, if you had any, proved of any , to you ; but notwithstanding this I still entertain hopes that reflection must sometimes come to you….. Mayo Constitution, 26 March 1832. MAYO ASSIZES. On Tuesday Thomas Henaghan was indicted for the wilful murder of John Parkes at Westport, on the 13th of December, 1830, by giving him a blow of an iron bar on the head, of which he died in four days, the Jury found him guilty of manslaughter Dublin Evening Packet, 27 March 1832.
Irish Convict Database, by Peter Mayberry. Thomas Hennaghan, alias Hannagan, age on arrival, 30, per Eliza II (4)(1832), Tried 1832 at Mayo, Life for Manslaughter. Former conviction, 1 year. DOB, 1802, Native place, Mayo Co. Catholic. Married, 2 children. Blacksmith. Died 1837, at Port Macquarie Hospital.