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Transportation
Alexander Maguire was transported on the Anne 1, departing 26th Jun 1800 and arriving 26th Jan 1801 with 54 passengers.
Departed from Cork, Ireland. # Also recorded as "Luz St Anna"
Anne 1 (generic)References
| Primary Source | Irish Convict Database by Peter Mayberry. |
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Source: “Unfinished Revolution: United Irishmen in New South Wales” by Anne-Maree Whitaker. Page 136. She is talking of the 1806 muster: “The muster shows ten of the convicts who had arrived on the Anne, five years earlier, as emancipated or free by service. ... Two of the Anne convicts who evidently had a good education were Alexander Maguire, clerk to Matthew Kearns, and John Gillespie, schoolmaster. Maguire was a United Irishman from Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, while Gillespie had been convicted of bestiality.
List of Convicts sent out from Ireland in 1800 in the Ship “Anne” (Stewart Master), whose periods of Transportation have never been sent out till now, and who are to be allowed to go Home, in case their sentences have expired, Viz. Dated Sydney, 5 April 1820, signed L. Macquarie. (A true Copy, Principal Sups. Office, 20 Aug 1822.) Alexr. McGuire, tried at Fermanagh, 7 years, at Mr Inch’s, Pitt St. Sydney, Recd. a Certif. No 152/607.
Irish Convict Database by Peter Mayberry. Alexander Maguire, alias McGuire, McGwire, age 21, Irish rebel, per Anne I (1801), Tried 1799 at Enniskillen Fermanagh Co., Life, Clerk, DOB, 1780. ---------------------------------------------------- 1828 NSW census at Dunheved, South Creek, Melville district, the household of Mrs King, wife of Captain Phillip Parker King, R.N. Mrs King had a large estate, with many employees, and livestock. Alexander McGuire, age 48, F.S. per 1st Anne, 1801, catholic, Clerk, Mrs King, Melville district. -------------------------------------------------- http://findingaids.nationalarchives.ie/index.php?simpleSearchSbm=true&searchDescTxt=alexander+Maguire&simpleSearchSbm=Search#searchfocus There are 2 matches in the Ireland- Australia transportation database which may refer to this man: Alexander Maguire, Imprisonment place, Enniskillen gaol, trial date, October 1798. Sentence 7 years transportation, Petition of self. Document date, 18/6/1799, Doc Ref: SSP 702. Alexander Maguire, Trial place, Court of King’s bench, Imprisonment place: New Prison Dublin; Crime: High Treason. Petitioner- prisoner. Petitioner is the young son of a tradesman. He was taken into custody at Enniskillen, Co, Fermanagh. Doc Date: 12/12/1798; Doc Ref: SPP 207.