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Transportation
Cornelius Dwyer Kane was transported on the Hougoumont, departing 10th Oct 1867 and arriving 9th Jan 1868 with 281 passengers.
875 ton ship was built at Moulmein in 1852. http://www.australiangeographic.com.au/journal/on-this-day-in-history-australias-last-convict-ship-docks.htm ---------------------------- Incorrect Image ....This is a four masted steel hulled Barque in the drawing , im surprised Australian Geo didn't do a bit more research on this .......The Hougoumont was a works ship on the Forth Bridge Project in 1885 ....the one potrayed as a drawing in Aust Geo is the later version of this ship.....the photograph i have attached is the correct and original convict vessel. --00-- 1867 "The hired convict ship Hougoumont, which has been taken up by the Government for the conveyance of a numerous party of convicts to Freemantle, Western Australia, left the Nore on October 1, and proceeded down Channel, after receiving on board 150 convicts from the establishments at Chatham and Millbank. The convicts from the Chatham establishment, at St. Mary's, embarked from the dockyard on board the paddle-wheel steamer Adder, Mr. W. J. Blakely, and were in charge of a numerous party of convict guards and wardens, all heavily armed. Among the convicts shipped were a party of fifteen Fenians, who were engaged in the late conspiracy in Ireland, together with the officers and crew convicted of scuttling the ship Severn, and some others who have achieved notoriety from their crimes. The Fenian convicts, like the remainder of the prisoners, were chained together in gangs, but it was observed that they were kept apart from the other convicts in a portion of the vessel by themselves. The steamer Petrel also took down a number of convicts from the establishment at Millbank for shipment on board the Hougoumont, in charge of a strong escort and convict guard. On Tuesday, October 8th, the Hougoumont arrived in Portland roads. Shortly before midday ninety convicts were marched down to the Government pier at Portland under a strong escort of the 12th Light Infantry. The party included twenty-three Fenian convicts, among whom it was said, was Moriarty. The Government steamer employed in the breakwater service was used for conveying the convicts on board the Hougoumont transport ship. The convicts were chained together on embarking, and on board the steamer a strong guard of marines from her Majesty's ship St. George was formed, and saw the convicts safely placed on board the Hougoumont. The Governor of the penal settlement at Freemantle, Captain Young, is on board the Hougoumont, and returns in that ship to his sphere of duty after paying a visit to his native land." Source: Sydney Morning Herald, Thu 19 Dec 1867, p4, English Shipping, available on Trove at https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/28608271?searchTerm=hougoumont.
HougoumontReferences
| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 93, Class and Piece Number HO11/19, Page Number 259 (132). Edgar, W (2018). “The precarious voyage of her majesty’s convict ship ‘Nile’ to the Swan River colony, late 1857”, The Great Circle, 40(1), 20–43. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26783779. Keneally, T (1998), “The great shame and the triumph of the Irish in the English-speaking world”, Random House, New York. convictrecords.com.au/convicts/kane/cornelius-dwyer/62701 |
| 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
1865, 19 September – Cork Examiner, Tuesday, p3: “(From the Irish Times of this day.) ... Cornelius D. Kane in his early life was a teacher under the National Board, but he afterwards forsook that calling, and became a law clerk. He was for some time engaged in the office of an eminent solicitor in the county of Cork. He afterwards obtained some employment in a daily newspaper in the city of Cork, and the last we heard of him previous to his present arrest, was upon the occasion of his arraignment at the last Cork Assizes on the indictment charging him with having tendered a Fenian oath to some person or persons in that county. He had Mr. Butt engaged for his defence; but during his absence in Dublin procuring the legal assistance of Mr. Butt, the case was called on, and Kane not being in attendance, his bail was estreated. However, he appeared on the following day, and, having explained the circumstances to the judge, his case was allowed to stand over until the next assizes.” --00--
1865, 1 August – Cork Examiner, Tuesday, p3: “CROWN COURT. Cornelius Kane, who was called this morning to answer the charge of administering illegal oaths, and whose recognisances were estreated this morning in consequence of his non-appearance, presented himself sometime after the order of the judge, and explained satisfactorily the cause of his absence when his case was called. He had not expected that his case would have been called so early (the "murder case" having been fixed for this morning), and he therefore came by a later train than he otherwise would have come by. Kane's sureties have renewed their bail, and he will be tried before Mr. Justice Keogh probably at the conclusion of the trial of Driscoll for murder.” (https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000425/18650801/028/0003) --0--
1865, 25 March – Catholic Telegraph, Saturday, p3: “UNLAWFUL OATHS. Cork, March 21.—Mr Barry, Q.C., applied on the part of the Crown that the trial of Cornelius Kane, who stands charged with the administration of unlawful oaths at Skibbereen, should be postponed to the next assizes. Mr. Waters, on behalf of the prisoner, applied for the prisoner's discharge on bail. He had been now four months in custody. He was fully prepared for his trial, and if the crown were not ready to proceed they should consent to accept solvent security for the prisoner’s appearance. Mr. Barry opposed the application, which he said should be made to the Queen’s Bench. His Lordship postponed the trial, and refused to admit the prisoner to bail.” --0--
1865, 18 March – Cork Herald, Saturday, p3: “ILLEGAL OATHS. Cornelius Kane pleaded not guilty to two indictments, the one charging him with administering illegally an oath to John Salter, not to relate a certain conversation which took place between them; the other with swearing-in the same John Salter as member of a seditious society which was formed or about to be formed. There were a large number of minor counts. The prisoner was then removed.” --0--
1865, 14 March – Dublin Evening Mail, Tuesday, p4: COUNTY OF CORK, March 13, Spring Assizes... “Another prisoner, named Cornelius Kane, will be tried at this assizes for wickedly swearing in people in Skibbereen as members of the Fenian conspiracy, and to aid the American brotherhood in reconquering Ireland.” --0--
IN IRELAND – BEFORE THE COURTS: 1865, 4 February –Drogheda Conservative, Saturday, p4: “In the Court of Queen’s Bench, on Wednesday, in the case of The Queen v. Cornelius Kane, Mr Keogh applied on the part of the prisoner, now in gaol in Cork on a charge of administering unlawful oaths, that he might be admitted to bail to stand his trial at the next assizes.” --0--
CORNELIUS DWYER KANE / KEANE: The following summary from Keith Amos’s thesis, in 1987, sets the scene for the life and times (condensed here) of Cornelius Kane / Keane: “Keane, Cornelius Dwyer, born 1839, son of James (clerk of works) and Johanna (nee Dwyer) Skibbereen, Cork; married to Margaret (nee Coghlan), 2 children: James Dwyer 4 yrs, Mary Ellen Dwyer 3 yrs; clerk, Skibbereen, Cork; literate, Roman Catholic; convicted Dublin 17/1/66: ‘Had been an active centre for Skibbereen - was brought to Dublin by Stephens and placed on the staff of the Irish People [newspaper]- engaged in swearing in Fenians’; treason-felony, 10 years’ penal servitude; Portland prison (5376) Fremantle prison, West Guildford road party (9790); 6 letters home, character indifferent. Record: (1) Petition to Secretary of State 16/10/66, complaining that his treatment is unnecessarily harsh and that he does not receive proper attention from the Medical Orderly - no grounds. (2) Having clandestinely and without permission written a letter to another prisoner at Guildford, 4/11/68 - 3 days Bread & Water. Release: Conditional Pardon 13/3/71; sailed for Adelaide, 18/9/71 then settled in Queensland; mining registrar at Charters Towers goldfield 1877, mining registrar and clerk of petty sessions at Thornborough 1878, Kingsborough 1881, Cloncurry 1887 and Limestone 1889; never re-married; died 28/10/91, at Limestone.” (Keith Amos (1987), "The Fenians and Australia c1865-1880", Appendix, p370). --00--
PHOTO of CORNELIUS DWYER KANE: Taken in 1866 while he was an inmate of Mounjoy Prison, Dublin, and labelled Image ID 1111430, the photo is available online at https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47dc-975f-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99 (see The New York Public Library Digital Collections, 1866).