Summary
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Voyage
Transportation
John Crowly was transported on the Blenheim, departing 27th Jul 1834 and arriving 14th Nov 1834 with 203 passengers.
Built 1845 at Shields. Wood ship of 808 Tons. Register lists of persons transported on the various sailing is still a work in progress, not all are yet listed.
Blenheim (generic)References
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Convict Notes
Prin. Sup. of Convicts' Office, Sydney, 14th October 1846. Crowly John, Blenheim, 1834, 30, Cork, boatman, 5 feet 6¼ inch, ruddy comp., brown hair, hazel eyes, scar on forehead, nose thick, scar left side of head, scar back of left thumb, finger nails short, scar forefinger of left hand, from Commissariat Transport Establishment, since the 13th instant. NSW Govt Gazette, 16 Oct 1846.
CITY CRIMINAL COURT—YESTERDAT. BEFORE MR. JUSTICE VANDELEUR. ... William Hannigan and John Crowly were indicted for assaulting Patrick Hayes on the 17th May. and taking from his person coat, pair of trowsers, and two handkerchiefs. Patrick Hayes— Was returning from Passage the night of May, when met him on the bridge near Shandon-street, and knocked him down; there were two others with Crowly; when he was on the ground Crowly. took off his (witness’s) coat, shoes, stockings, and 2 handkerchiefs; he was also the act of taking his trowsers, but on the approach of a man, the traversers made off, having first cut off the pocket from his trowsers, which contained in ? money; saw his shoes on the next Monday, at Crone’s Pawn Office; never before that night saw any of the prisoners who attacked him ; could not screech out, one of them had his hand on his mouth ; when Crowly was stripping him, witness caught him by the breast and marked him and told him he knew him ; was quite sober that night; tins happened a little after 12 at night; had been at Passage 40 ; the men were at him for half an hour. John Crone. is a Pawnbroker; the shoes now produced were pawned at his office on the 18th May. Patrick Hayes—identified the shoes. Crowly, Guilty; Hannigan, not Guilty. Cork Constitution, 29 August 1833.
Irish Convict Database, by Peter Mayberry. John Crowly, alias Crowley, age on arrival, 18, per Blenheim I (1) 1834. Tried 1833, at Cork City, Life, for Highway robbery. DOB, 1816, native place, Cork. Single. Catholic. Trade, Boatman.