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Voyage
Transportation
Thomas Kenny was transported on the Bencoolen, departing 24th Apr 1819 and arriving 25th Aug 1819 with 153 passengers.
Departed from Cork. 150 Male passengers - no deaths. 123 of the convicts were trans-shipped to Van Diemens Land in the Admiral Cockburn, arriving there in September 1819.
Bencoolen (generic)References
| Primary Source | Irish Convict Database by Peter Mayberry. Hobart Town Gazette, 9 Dec 1820 |
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Convict Notes
*** TWO THOMAS KENNY'S ON THIS VOYAGE *** Medical Journal of the Bencoolen 1819: Folio 62: Thomas Kenny, aged 18; where and when tried, November 1818, Dublin; crime, burglary; term of transportation, life. Thomas was 5'5¼" tall, fair ruddy complexion, dark flaxen hair, hazl eyes. Occupation: Blacksmith's apprentice. Native Place: Westmeath. September 1819: Transferred to VDL per 'Admiral Cockburn'. 31/3/1821 Hobart Town Gazette: Sentenced to death on a charge of robbery in the dwelling house. 28/4/1821 Hobart Town Gazette: Hanged along with 9 other men for various crimes.
On Wednesday last, Thomas Kenny, one of the prisoners who lately broke out of the jail, went into a stock-keeper's hut at Jericho, where a private of the 48th Regiment happened fortunately to be at the time, but did not know the prisoner, who immediately went out of the hut, when a woman who knew Kenny gave the alarm: he was pursued, and with the assistance of another person soon retaken. - As none of the rest of the gang were about the neighbourhood when he was taken, it is supposed that he must have separated himself from them. Hobart Town Gazette, 23 Dec 1820.
Irish Convict Database: Thomas Kenny, age 18, Bencoolen, Tried at Dublin Co. in 1818, sentenced to Life, native of Westmeath, blacksmith apprentice.
ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY POUNDS REWARD. POLICE OFFICE, HOBART TOWN, 28th November, 1820. WHEREAS THOMAS KENNY (No. 73), a Convict, 5 feet 3¼ inches high, brown Hair, dark grey Eyes, 18 years of Age, a Blacksmith by Trade, was tried in the County of Dublin in 1818, was sentenced to be transported for Life, born in the county of West-meath, has a Crucifix above the Elbow on the right Arm, T. K. on the left Arm, arrived at Sydney in the Ship Bencoolen, and here in the Ship Admiral Cockburn, charged with Wilful Murder ;- Hobart Town Gazette, 9 Dec 1820