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Catherine Loftus was transported on the Catherine, departing 8th Dec 1813 and arriving 4th May 1814 with 98 passengers.
325 ton ship. Built in New Bedford 1811. Sailed from Falmouth, England to Cove, Ireland. Departed Dec 1813 and arrived Sydney, Australia 4 May 1814. 98 female passengers (4 children), 1 death en route. Register of passengers on this web site is currently being updated - not yet complete (researchers please note) R
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Family connections for Catherine (Loftus) are: LOFTUS Catherine (???/Loftus) was born about 1755. She may have married firstly ??? (Loftus) in Ireland. She was tried at Dublin city Ireland in September 1813, sentenced to 7years & arrived in NSW as a convict on 4 5 1814 after a voyage of 5months on CATHERINE. She was sent to Derwent Van Diemen’s Land (Tasmania) on KANGAROO on 24 5 1814. She married secondly Zachariah (Sponsford/Spoonsford/Ponsford his second marriage) on 18 5 1820 at St Davids CofE Hobart. She was issued her Ticket of Leave in November 1824. She died 16 2 1832 at Coal River. [Some details taken from this Website] Zachariah (Sponsford/Spoonsford/Ponsford) was born about 1742. He, as Zacariah (Ponsford), was convicted at Wells Lent Assizes Surrey on 28 7 1788, sentenced to death reprieved to 7years & arrived in NSW as a convict on 9 7 1791 after a voyage of 6.5months on Fleet ship ATLANTIC. He was sent to Norfolk Island on FANCY, arriving on 4 7 1795. He was recorded in 1796 on plot. no.42 of 60 acres at Phillipsburg. He was an emancipist when he married firstly Catherine (Williams her third marriage) emancipist on 28 1 1804 on Norfolk Island. He was recorded in February 1805 as settler/landowner on Norfol Island. He left Norfolk Island on 9 11 1807 as part of the first evacuation (for which volunteers apparantly had been called with appropriate compensation offerred & for which he may have tried to decline as some successful farmers were asked to stay) on HMS LADY NELSON to Derwent Tasmania, arriving on 28 11 1807 & being recorded as renting land & being very industrious; to New Town/Glenorchy. On 20 9 1813 he was granted 30acres at New Town parish of Argyle. He also leased land at Pittwater. On 31 1 1817 he was a settler & charged with assaulting Dennis (Geary) at New Town with a musket with intent to kill. He was recorded on 2 10 1818 as off stores at Hobart town-Ref:'Forgotten...' shows him as arriving in Australia on ALBEMARLE (same Fleet). He is recorded as off stores on 2 10 1818 at Hobart town. He died on 8 10 1832 age97 at Coal River. [Some details taken from this Website] References: Craig James Smee 'Births and Baptisms Marriages and Defacto Relationships Deaths and Burials New South Wales 1788-1830' ..a complete listing from church & other records in the early colony. Irene Schaffer & Thelma McKay 'Exiled Three Times Over! Profiles of Norfolk Islanders Exiled in Van Diemens Land 1807-1813' James Hugh Donohoe 'Norfolk Island 1788-1813-The People and Their Families' Reg Wright 'Forgotten Generation of Norfolk Island & Van Diemens Land'
Government Public Notice. THE under-mentioned Persons have obtained Certificates and Tickets of Leave during the last Week: Certificates. Catherine Loftus, now Sponsford … Catherine. Hobart Town Gazette, 19 Nov 1824.
https://stors.tas.gov.au/CON13-1-1$init=CON13-1-1p36 List of sixty female convicts embarked on board Kangaroo to land at the Derwent in Van Diemen’s Land, and their indents from the Catherine Convict ship. Sydney 24 May 1814. No 26. Catherine Loftus, age 45, tried City of Dublin, Sept 1813, 7 years.