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Transportation
Thomas Mcgrath was transported on the Guildford, departing 30th Nov 1814 and arriving 8th Apr 1816 with 229 passengers.
The ‘Guildford’ was built on the River Thames, England in 1810. Used as a Convict Transport ship to Australia - voyages 1812, 1816, 1818, 1820, 1822, 1824, 1827 & 1829. The ship was lost at sea near Singapore in 1831, loosing all aboard.
Guildford (generic)References
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Convict Notes
PRINCIPAL SUPERINTENDANT'S OFFICE, Sydney, September 14, 1816. SEVERAL Prisoners having absconded from their Employment during this Week, and particularly the undermentioned, it is hereby directed that every Exertion shall be made on the Part of the Police, as well as the Settlers and Inhabitants of the Colony, to apprehend the Persons referred to, who are suspected of the Piracy of the Brig Trial, on the Night of the 12th Instant. Thomas McGrath, tried at Limerick County in March 1815, for life, aged 26, a stonemason, native of Limerick and Garryowen boy, 5 feet 8½ inches high, grey eyes, dark brown hair, dark ruddy complexion, arrived per ship Guilford, and was lately employed as a labourer at Macquarie Tower. Sydney Gazette, 21 Sept 1816.
Thomas McGrath was convicted at Limerick in March 1815. Life sentence. Transported to New South Wales, Australia per the 'Guildford' arriving 1816. Aged 26yrs; stonemason. One of the convicts who escaped from the Colony 12/09/1816 having seized the brig ‘Trial’. No trace of them was found despite attempts to trace them. The wreck of the ‘Trial’ was however found. Some were believed to have gone bush or went in a small boat made from the shipwreck.