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Transportation
Margaret Masterson was transported on the Palambam, departing 23rd Mar 1831 and arriving 31st Jul 1831 with 122 passengers.
394 tons. 1831 voyage from Cork, Ireland to New South Wales, Australia. Capt. Willis. 114 female prisoners. Also 50 girls from the Foundling Hospital, Cork with 2 Matrons and their husbands and children. Also 4 female wives of convicts already in Australia and their children. Register of passengers currently being updated and not yet complete.
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Convict Notes
Convict Permission to Marry. Israel Woodgate, per Norfolk (1) age 32, 14 years, T of L; and Margaret Masterson, per Palambam, age 26, 7 years, Bond. Date of Permission: Elizabeth Street; Sydney. 9 July 1833. NSW BMD Marriage Ref: 2651/1833. Israel Woodgate and Margaret Masterton, JA district. (Presbyterian, Sydney Scots Church)
Recorder’s Court, yesterday. George Ptolemy, Margaret Masterson, Edward Fitzsimons, Christopher Cooke, and Patrick Magennis, were found guilty of stealing handkerchief. The Recorder, in passing sentence upon the prisoners, said, that one of of the prisoners, Mary Masterson, it was well known, kept a house to the Richmond Penitentiary, in which she received the boys whose period of incarceration had expired, and who , under her instruction, became still more hardened in crime than they had been before they knew her. The court had, under such circumstances, no hesitation in transporting her for seven years. Dublin Morning Register, 13 Oct 1830.
New South Wales, Australia, Convict Indents, 1788-1842. Name; Margaret Masterson Ship; Palambam - 1831 Indent No; 313 - 31. 108 Age; 24 Est birth Year; 1807 Read & Write; Single; Religion; Protestant Native Place; Dublin Calling; Housemaid Offence; Stealing handkerchiefs Date of Trial: City of Dublin, 12 Oct 1830 Sentence; 7 years. Previous; 12 months Height; 5 ft. 1 1/4. in Complexion; Ruddy, freckled, pock pitted Hair; Dark Brown Eyes; Grey Family in the Colony; MOTHER; Judith Masterson. 10 years ago, Lives with Rev. Mr. Fulton [1828 Census. Age; 46. Almorah 2. 1823. Sentence; 7 years. Rev Henry Fulton. Evan. G.S. ------------------------
Irish Convict Database by Peter Mayberry Margaret Masterson, age 24, per Palambam (1831), Tried at Dublin, 1830. 7 years, for stealing handkerchiefs, 1 former conviction. Native of Dublin, single, mother Judith Masterson arrived per Almorah (3) 1824, & Judith lives with Rev Henry Fulton, Housemaid. DOB. 1807. Catholic.