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Lawrence Lynch was transported on the Sugar Cane, departing 12th Apr 1792 and arriving 17th Sep 1793 with 102 passengers.
Sugar Cane, was a 403 burthen ton merchantman and convict ship that was dispatched in 1793 from Ireland to Australia. She was launched in 1786 upon the Thames River. Under the command of Thomas Musgrave, she sailed from Cork, Ireland, on 12 April 1793, with 110 male and 50 female convicts. During the voyage a mutiny by the convicts was put down and a convict executed. She arrived at Port Jackson, New South Wales on the 17 September 1793. The Sugar Cane left Port Jackson for Bengal in late 1793.
Sugar Cane (generic)References
| Primary Source | Freemans Journals, May 7th 1791, p.4 |
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Lawrence Lynch was transported for seven years on 'Sugar Cane' for pocket-picking, being found guilty at the Monaghan Assizes in April 1791. Lynch had been picking pockets in the court house at the sessions! The Freemans Journals, May 7th 1791, p.4: "MONAGHAN ASSIZES "Laurence Lynch, for picking the pocket of [ ] McKenna, in the Court-house, during the [sessions?], to be transported seven years. There was a James McKenna on trial at the same assizes for burglary, (to be hanged) and a Mile McKenna on a charge of falsely imprisoning another McKenna. So the court house would have had a few McKennas about it that day! The Indent of Sugar Cane (departing early 1793) recorded Laurence Lynch's age as 25 years, so he was born about 1768.