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Personal Information
Crime
Voyage
Transportation
Margaret Pealan was transported on the Waverley, departing 4th Sep 1842 and arriving 15th Dec 1842 with 139 passengers.
Built 1838 at Whitby. Wood barque of 436 Tons. (Incomplete registers for persons transported on these sailings of the Waverley - a work in progress) 1847 - 129 female prisoner, 32 children. 39 Free females
Waverley (generic)References
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Convict Notes
Name: Pealon, Margaret Record Type: Convicts Departure date: 4 Sep 1842 Departure port: Dublin Ship: Waverley (2) Place of origin: Belfast, Antrim Voyage number: 206 Index number: 55602 Record ID: NAME_INDEXES:1425200 https://libraries.tas.gov.au/Record/NamesIndex/1425200
Marriage Registration record, District of St Georges. https://libraries.tas.gov.au/Digital/RGD37-1-6/RGD37-1-6P110 John Richards, age 32, labourer, and Margaret Palin, age 27, spinster, were married 21 Sep 1847, at Bethesda, according to the rites of the Church of England, by the minister, H. P. Fry. Witnesses were James Bellwell and Catherine Belwell.
Marriage Permission. https://libraries.tas.gov.au/Digital/CON52-1-2/CON52-1-2P092 John Richard, free, and 337. Margaret Palen, per Waverley, permission requested 6 Sep 1847. Approved.
Convict Conduct Record. https://libraries.tas.gov.au/Digital/CON40-1-8/CON40-1-8/CON40-1-8P162 237. Margaret Pealan. See record for details.
Belfast Quarter Sessions. Margaret Pelan, for stealing a shawl the 24th of Jan., the goods of James Gardner, at Belfast. Guilty, third conviction; seven years’ transportation. Vindicator, 20 April 1842.
Tasmanian Records. Waverley Indent Record, https://libraries.tas.gov.au/Digital/CON15-1-2/CON15-1-2/CON15-1-2P78 and https://libraries.tas.gov.au/Digital/CON15-1-2/CON15-1-2/CON15-1-2P79 No 237. Margaret Pealan, age 28, House & Nurse maid, tried Antrim, 12 April 1842, 7 years. Native place, Belfast. Single, religion, C.E., can read. Relations: 3 B, Thos, Alexr. And Wm. At N.P. Offence: Transported for stealing a shawl, pr in Belfast, once 3 mos for a cap, 1 mo for shoes.