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Transportation
Mary Lavery was transported on the Palambam, departing 23rd Mar 1831 and arriving 31st Jul 1831 with 122 passengers.
394 tons. 1831 voyage from Cork, Ireland to New South Wales, Australia. Capt. Willis. 114 female prisoners. Also 50 girls from the Foundling Hospital, Cork with 2 Matrons and their husbands and children. Also 4 female wives of convicts already in Australia and their children. Register of passengers currently being updated and not yet complete.
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Convict Notes
Mary Lavery, for stealing out of the house of Robt. Wood, Markethill, on 12th July last, fifteen hanks of linen yarn, a cotton shawl, and other articles. The prosecutor, when sworn, stated that, on the 12th of July, he and his family all went out to see the Orangemen, and locked up the house ; on his return to the house he found that a back window had been forced open, and that some person had entered and taken fifteen hanks of yarn, a shawl, and other articles, his property; prosecutor suspected the prisoner, and, on making search, got her in a field or garden convenient to his own house, and the shawl (which he now produces) in her hand ; when prosecutor asked her what she had done with the rest of the things, she said she had given them to one Biddy Reilly; prosecutor got the fifteen hanks yarn and other things, his property, with said Biddy Reilly. Biddy Reilly swore to the getting of a bundle off the prisoner, which she said she had brought from her uncle’s ; and that the same bundle, which had fifteen hanks of yarn, some meal and beef, in it, was claimed by the prosecutor—Guilty; to be transported for 7 years Newry Telegraph, 30 July 1830.
Irish Convict Database, by Peter Mayberry. Mary Lavery, alias Laverty, age 20, Per Palambam 1831, Tried 1830 at Armagh, 7 years, for Stealing yarn. DOB, 1811, Native place, Armagh. Single, Catholic, Trade, All work.