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Transportation
Honora Joyce was transported on the Janus, departing 23rd Oct 1819 and arriving 3rd May 1820 with 109 passengers.
Rig Type: S. Built: New York 1810 Size (tons): 308 The Janus was also a whaling ship. 1819/20 voyage: Female convicted women embarked in England and then in Cork, Ireland. One Rebecca Connolly embarked at Cork but due to ill health was returned to Depot. Sailed on 19 Dec 1819. Arrived at Port Jackson, NSW 3 May 1820. On 20th May, 68 of the women was boarded on the Princess Charlotte bound for Van Diemen's Land, to Port Dalrymple and Hobart. A formal enquiry was held as to the treatment of the women by the Captain and his crew. Note: Not all of the women from Ireland have been included yet on this Register. Currently being updated. Two of the Women convicts, Mary Long, and Lydia Elsden claimed to be in a pregnant condition on arrival. Mary Long claimed the Captain, thomas Mowat, was the father of her child, and Lydia Elsden claimed the Chief Officer, John Hedges, was the father of her child, to which they both swore before the Magistrate.
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Convict Notes
CLARE. The following persons have been capitally convicted at the above Assizes, viz. P. Conneen, for burglary and robbery in the house of J. Roche—to be hanged the 3d of April. P. Fitzpatrick and J. Beatty, for sheep-stealing— hanged on the 10th of April.—(the. frequency of this crime in the country prevented the Court from extending mercy them) Honora Joice, for killing a sheep – to be hanged on the 12th of April. Public Ledger, 20 March 1819. -------------------------------------------------- Following their arrival in NSW per Janus, sixty-eight of the women were embarked on the 'Princess Charlotte' on 16th May, bound for Van Diemen's Land. They were obliged at first to put back into port for a week because of unfavourable winds however soon resumed this second voyage. Twenty-five women were sent to Port Dalrymple and forty-three to Hobart. https://stors.tas.gov.au/CON13-1-2$init=CON13-1-2p51 List of Prisoners per Princess Charlotte to Port Dalrymple. Honora Joyce, age 50, Farm service, Co. Clare, March 1819, 7 years. -------------------------------------------------- Tasmanian Conduct Record. https://stors.tas.gov.au/CON40-1-5$init=CON40-1-5p163 5. Honora Joyce. per Janus 1820 & P. Charlotte, 1820. Tried at Co. Clare, Lent 1819, 7 years. Transported for Sheep stealing. No other information on this record.
Colonial Secretary Papers: JOYCE, Honora. Per "Janus", 1820 1820 May 16: On list of convicts transhipped from the "Janus" to the "Princess Charlotte" and forwarded to Port Dalrymple; listed as Toyce (Reel 6007; 4/3502 p.38)
Honora was convicted at County Clare in the Lent of 1819 for sheep stealing. Sentence of 7yrs. She departed on 'Janus' 5 Dec 1819 from Cork, arriving Sydney 3 May 1820. She was transferred to van Diemen's Land on the 'Princess Charlotte' arriving George Town 7 June 1820. Age 50yrs. Farm Servant. Present at Muster 1821 Port Dalrymple (George Town). 1826 Free Certificate.