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Voyage
Transportation
Denis Keenan was transported on the Kinnear, departing 10th Jul 1842 and arriving 23rd Oct 1842 with 174 passengers.
Built 1834 at Yarmouth. Wood barque of 369 Tons. (Register of persons transported is not yet completed - currently being listed.) 1842 Voyage. OCT. 23. - Arrived the barque Kinnear, Lidderdale master, from Dublin 10th July, with 180 male prisoners, Surgeon Superintendent - G. J. Fox, Esq. The guard consists of Captain Bull (with Mrs. Bull, 4 children, and 1 female servant), and 30 rank and file of the 99th Regt., - 4 women, and 6 children. Colonial Times (Hobart) 25 Oct 1842.
Kinnear (generic)References
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Convict Notes
Indent Kinnear: https://stors.tas.gov.au/CON14-1-17$init=CON14-1-17P34 and https://stors.tas.gov.au/CON14-1-17$init=CON14-1-17P35 6749. Denis Keenan, tried at Kings, 4 March 1842, 7 years. Age 29, height 5ft 6, catholic, can read and write, single. Offence: Obtaining shop goods, veg, tea, sugar, cloth, cording, &c, under false pretences. Surgeon’s Report; Highly recommended, Schoolmaster. Trade, Schoolmaster. Native place, Queens Co. Remarks: F, John at N.P.; M at same place, 2B, McLaughlin, John. --------------------------------------------------- Conduct Record: https://stors.tas.gov.au/CON33-1-28$init=CON33-1-28p91 20 April 1846, Ticket of Leave. Cert, 27/5/1849. -------------------------------------------------- Kings County. Denis Keenan, a national schoolmaster, was found guilty of obtaining goods to the amount of three pounds under false pretences, by means of a forged guarantee, purporting to have been written by the Rev. Patrick Rigney, P.P. of Philipstown. The manner of the prisoner was most hardened, and he was sentenced to transportation for seven years. Warder and Dublin Weekly Mail, 12 March 1842.