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Transportation
William Manning was transported on the Caroline, departing 30th Nov 1830 and arriving 31st Jul 1831 with 7 passengers.
Departed Cove with 120 females from Cork and the surrounding various gaols - also on board were 56 free settlers along with their women and children. wed april 3 1833 .
Caroline (generic)References
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Convict Notes
Conditional Pardon Granted. Pardons available everywhere save in the Madras Presidency and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, William Manning, Caroline. Sydney Morning Herald, 9 Aug 1849.
Born in Wicklow, William Manning was convicted for firing at a serjeant. He was single, and aged 24. He was a soldier, an officer's servant and groom. Allen's Indian Mail reports the following comments: General Orders By the Right Hon. The Commander-in-Chief, (the Earl of Dalhousie). , Head-Quarters, Calcutta, May 24, 1830. “Remarks on the Trial of Private William Manning, of H.M. 16th Lancers.” The prisoner William Manning declares, that he did not intend to murder the serjeant, but only to do sufficient to send him to New South Wales. The court martial have thought otherwise, and sentenced him to an ignominious death. “The commander-in-chief has remitted the capital punishment; the prisoner, according to his declared object, will be transported to New South Wales, where, in the debased and wretched condition in which he is doomed to pass the remainder of his days, he will reflect on the honorable character of a British soldier, which he has voluntarily lost: he will then deplore the miserable delusion prevalent among the European soldiers of this army, that transportation to New South Wales opens a new life with immediate comfort and eventual emancipation. In the early period of that colony, convicts transported for crimes without violence, and noted for subsequent good behaviour conduct, may have been allowed to work separately from the common gang of convicts, and employed in less severe labour; but the most ignorant of soldier cannot believe that a man dismissed from the army, which he has disgraced, and stamped with the character of an attempted murderer, is ever let loose from the chains in which the felon drags on his miserable life, ofr can escape from the abhorrence with which mankind regard the cowardly wretch, who lifts the weapon, entrusted to him for the protection of his king and country, against his officer or comrade, or other confiding or defenceless person.”