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Transportation
Marcella Rooney was transported on the Caroline, departing 15th Apr 1833 and arriving 6th Aug 1833 with 122 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
LIST OF RUNAWAYS APPREHENDED DURING THE LAST WEEK Rooney Marcella, Caroline, M. Reiby, Sydney. NSW Govt Gazette, 6 July 1836. Absconded. Rooney Marcella, Caroline, 23, Dublin, nurse-girl, 4 feet 7¾ inches, and upwards, fair, ruddy and freckled comp., sandy brown hair, grey eyes, slight scar inside left wrist, from M. Bloodsworth, Sydney, since March 5. NSW Govt Gazette, 14 Mar 1838.
SUPREME CRIMINAL COURT. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 5th. Maria Fellowes was indicted for assaulting Marcella Rooney, at Parramatta, on the 8th Dec, by kicking and striking her on the belly and right side of her head, thereby inflicting divers hurts and injuries so that the life of the said Maria Rooney was despaired of. Marcella Rooney.-I was assigned to Mr. Fellowes, a shopkeeper at Parramatta ; I went to him a week before Whitsuntide ; I think I am about 20 years of age ; I was transported from Dublin four years ago for stealing from a shop; about three weeks before Christmas my mistress asked me if I would light her pipe I said I would not ; this was on a Saturday evening, she had been out from the Wednesday before and came home at 10 o'clock on the Saturday night ; she was not drunk; she asked me again and I told her a second time I could not ; I had lit it for her several times and it made me quite sick ; as I sat on the hearth she said I was a very flash lady, and she up with her foot and kicked me in the side ; I got up and she knocked me down ; on the Sunday I found myself ill ; she was drunk all day on the Sunday, and in the evening began to abuse me ; I was in such pain that I went to the watch-housekeeper and gave myself up ; I was very ill in the night and in the morning was taken to the hospital, where I was detained five or six weeks ; Mr. Canny was the first person that saw me ; there was no bruise, I felt hurt inwardly ; I did not go to church on the Sunday. Cross-examined. - I had not been ill before ; the only illness I had was from the kick ; I did not complain of illness on Saturday before I received the kick ; I did not send for any spirits for a pain in the belly during the prisoner's absence ; when I was taken into the hospital I told Mr. Canny my mistress had kicked me ; I did not tell Dr. Anderson ; I told Dr. Hill when I had been in the hospital for fourteen days ; I was not very saucy to my mistress before she kicked me ; my side still pains me, and I shall never get the better of it. By the Jury.-My mistress was sitting in the chair when she struck me. Mr. Henry Canny, overseer at Parramatta hospital. - The prosecutor was received into the hospital on the 4th December ; she complained of a violent pain in her bowels and side ; I asked her if she had received any injury, and she denied having received any, but I ascertained from the nurse three days afterwards that she had been kicked ; she was that day examined by Dr. Ganning of the 80th Regt., particularly on the place where she said she had been kicked ; she was examined when she first came in by Dr. Ganning and Mr. Anderson, and it was supposed she had an inflamation in her bowels ; when Dr. Ganning examined her the second time she was pronounced to be in danger, and she was visited by the Police Magistrate who took her deposition ; she was considered in danger for fourteen or fifteen days : she laboured under inflamation of the bowels brought on by external violence ; there was a slight discoloration on the side which I saw when she came in, and this induced me to ask her if she had received any injury and she said no ; the discoloration was on the right side of the belly ; it was black and yellow ; she complained of pain particularly there ; she could not stand up ; when giving her deposition before the magistrate she said she had received two kicks. Cross-examined. - She is quite well now ; the prisoner did not send any comforts to Rooney, nor did she visit her; Rooney did not make any statement until she had been three days in the hospital. Dr. Anderson.-I recollect this girl being in Parramatta hospital for inflammation of the bowels ; I questioned her but could ascertain no cause; it had been told me she had been kicked or received some injuries, and I asked her, but she denied it ; I saw no marks of violence on her person ; I left the hospital in charge of Dr. Gunning when she had been there four days, I was away nearly a month, and on my return found her better ; I do not think she had received any violence ; I examined her very closely and found no marks ; she was very ill, in imminent danger; Canny, the overseer, has medical knowledge, he has been with the department about fourteen years, I examined Rooney three or four times every day ; it was a bad case ; I treated it as on ordinary case of inflammation of the bowels ; I have no reason to believe that Rooney has any chronic disease. Francis Kinchella, a stonemason lodging with the prisoner-On the 4th December Mrs. Fellowes returned from Liverpool, between eight and nine o'clock ; I can't exactly say she was sober ; she might have been after drinking something ; I had been drinking ; when the prisoner and her husband came in there was some rum and half-and-half on the table ; she had some drink ; the servant woman lit her pipe for her ; I do not recollect that the prisoner and Rooney had any quarrel ; I was drunk ; the next morning the other lodger and I went out to have something more to drink, and when we came home to breakfast some more drink was sent for ; Rooney said, that because of the row between her and her mistress, she would give herself up ; on the Wednesday or Thursday before Rooney told me that she was ailing. Cross-examined.-The prisoner might have kicked Rooney without my knowing it. Marcella Rooney recalled-I did not like to tell Dr. Anderson what had been done to me because I did not wish to hurt my mistress ; I told Mr. Campbell so. Canny recalled-There was a mark about the size of a dollar discolored ; it looked like a bruise ; I saw it the first day the girl came into the hospital ; she distinctly denied that any one had hurt her. This was the case for the Crown. The prisoner denied having kicked the girl ; she called no witnesses. Not Guilty. Sydney Gazette, 10 Feb 1838
Convict Applications to Marry. Abraham Mellor per Tottenham, age 45, Life, Condition, T. of L.; widower; and Marcella Rooney, per Caroline, age 19, 7 years, Bond; Date of permission, 10 Apr 1835, Liverpool. NSW Convict Index. Marcella Rooney, per Caroline, 1833, Certificate of Freedom, 30 Oct 1840, No 40/1807.
The following are the most important cases disposed of by the Recorder this day : ... ; Marcella Rooney, for stealing a handkerchief, was also sentenced to seven years transportation; Warder and Dublin Weekly, 6 Oct 1832.
Sessions court, Dublin. ... Marcella Rooney was found guilty of shop lifting, and being an old offender, was also sentenced to seven years transportation. Westmeath Journal, 11 Oct 1832.
Irish Convict Database, by Peter Mayberry. Marcella Rooney, age on arrival, 18, arrived per Caroline, (1833) Tried 1832 at Dublin, 7 years, for Stealing handkerchiefs silk. DOB 1815, native place, Dublin, Single, Catholic. Trade, Nurse girl.