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Transportation
Edward Lyneham 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 | Convict Indents &c; Source Reference: SRNSW ref: SZ115 pp260-65; SRNSW ref: 4/4003; Ship source: Sugar Cane, Year: 1793; Vol entry number: 15482. Newspaper: 'Dublin Chronicle', Tuesday 11 October 1791, p.8 |
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Edward Lyneham, Aged 20 years, Tried at Dublin Oct 1791, Trial Sentence: 7 years; arrived at Sydney per Sugar Cane on 17 Sep 1793. Dublin Chronicle, Tuesday 11 October 1791, p.8 “Quarter Sessions at the Tholsel (Continued from Thursday’s paper i.e. 6 October) "EDWARD LYNAM, for cutting eighteen pounds of sheet lead from the dwelling house of Thomas Kelly ********************* The Tholsel was a civic building, it’s name being a corruption of “Toll Stall”. Tolls could be paid here, there was a merchant’s exchange, and the City Recorder sat here to try less serious crimes. None of the other prisoners recorded with Edward Lyneham as receiving 7 year sentences of transportation were actually transported. This often happened because many convicts were instead respited on condition of entering HM’s navy (or army), or their sentence was reduced to imprisonment (especially in the case of many women).