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Transportation
Mary Kirby was transported on the Elizabeth, departing 27th Aug 1827 and arriving 12th Jan 1828 with 195 passengers.
1828 - Elizabeth arrived from Ireland with Female Irish Convicts. Total No Embarked; 194. Drowned on voyage; 1 Died on Board; 1. Total mustered 192 on arrival at Sydney Cove 12 January 1828. 16 Children on Board Walter Cock - Commander Joseph H Hughes - Surgeon Superintendent.
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| Primary Source | Irish Convict Database by Peter Mayberry. |
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Convict Notes
Eleanor Egan, and Mary Kirby, for assaulting and robbing John Brien of 16£.— death recorded; Limerick Chronicle, 7 April 1827. Eleanor Egan and Mary Kerby, were next indicted for assaulting and robbing John Brien, at Youghal, on the 4th August. John Brien deposed, that he went into public-house to drink with the two prisoners, women of bad character, and having taken some whiskey and porter, he went out into the street, and was proceeding to a house of ill fame with them, when a boy ran from another part of the street, and having joined the prisoners, they all three attacked him; the boy caught him the neck, and with the assistance of the women, succeeded in knocking him down; they then proceeded to rob him, and took from his pocket £16 11s. 6d.—they also took off his shoes and stockings and hat, with which they all made off; witness applied instantly to a Constable, who took the women into custody the next day. The Constable was produced and corroborated this last circumstance, but did not find any of the articles in the prisoners’ possession ; he however discovered the prosecutor’s stockings near the house in which he apprehended the prisoners, concealed under a large stone—Guilty. His Lordship ordered sentence of death recorded against both prisoners, but promised to interest himself in getting the punishment changed to that of transportation for life. Cork Constitution, 5 April 1827.
Irish Convict Database by Peter Mayberry. Mary Kirby, age on arrival, 23, per Elizabeth II, 1828, tried 1827 at Cork, Life for stealing money. DOB 1805, native place, Cork, Single. Protestant, Washer woman house maid.