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Voyage
Transportation
Mary Mccreevey was transported on the Kinnear, departing 16th Jun 1848 and arriving 7th Oct 1848 with 141 passengers.
Built 1834 at Yarmouth. Wood barque of 369 Tons. (Register of persons transported is not yet completed - currently being listed.) 1842 Voyage. OCT. 23. - Arrived the barque Kinnear, Lidderdale master, from Dublin 10th July, with 180 male prisoners, Surgeon Superintendent - G. J. Fox, Esq. The guard consists of Captain Bull (with Mrs. Bull, 4 children, and 1 female servant), and 30 rank and file of the 99th Regt., - 4 women, and 6 children. Colonial Times (Hobart) 25 Oct 1842.
Kinnear (generic)References
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Claims
"Mary Mccreevey (or Mccreey, or McCrewney) is my 2nd great-grandmother"
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Convict Notes
From my research notes: Mary McCreery was convicted of larceny in Dublin in January 1848. [Conduct record at Libraries Tasmania] She received a sentence of 7 years transportation to Van Diemens Land. She arrived in Tasmania 7 Oct 1848. She was 16 years old at that time. Her profession is listed as Nurse Girl. [Convict description list at Libraries Tasmania] On 21 Jan 1851 she received permission to marry Mathew Sutton. [Marriage Permissions at Libraries Tasmania] As Mary McCrewney she married Mathew Sutton on 11 Feb 1851 in Launceston Tasmania [Australia Marriages, 1810-1980", database, FamilySearch] She was freed of her transportation servitude on 10 January 1855. Mary and Mathew had 5 children. Her husband Mathew died in 1889, in Launceston. From 1891 to her own death in 1898 she was in and out of a Hobart pauper establishment (New Town Charitable Institute). It seems she died in there. She was buried in the pauper section of the Cornelian Bay Cemetery Hobart.
Ticket of leave Granted. Mary McCreey, Kinnear; The Cornwall Chronicle, 13 March 1852.
Conduct Record https://stors.tas.gov.au/CON41-1-19$init=CON41-1-19p82
Kinnear Indent. https://stors.tas.gov.au/CON15-1-5$init=CON15-1-5p34 and https://stors.tas.gov.au/CON15-1-5$init=CON15-1-5p35 Mary McCreevey, tried at Down, 10 Jan 1848, 7 years, age 16, height 4 ft 11 ¾. Catholic, can read and write a little, single. Offence: Stg 1/11/2 from Elizth Tough, Co. Down. 6 mnths for a book; lived 12 months by thieving. 6 months on the Town. Surgeon’s Report: Good. Trade, Nurse girl, Native place, Newry. Remarks: Father Frank; Bros, Thos, transported 4 years since. Sis Mary at N.P.