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Transportation
Sarah Mcgregor was transported on the Kains, departing 5th Jul 1830 and arriving 11th Mar 1831 with 121 passengers.
353 tons. 1831 voyage from Britain to Australia: Capt William Lushington GOODWIN. Surgeon: Thrasycles CLARKE. Several children of the female convicts accompanied them. One of the seamen, Charles Picknell, kept a diary of the voyage and excerpts have been published.
Kains (generic)References
| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 89, Class and Piece Number HO11/7, Page Number 437 (221) |
| Source Description | This record is one of the entries in the British convict transportation registers 1787-1867 database compiled by State Library of Queensland from British Home Office (HO) records which are available on microfilm as part of the Australian Joint Copying Pro |
| Original Source | Great Britain. Home Office |
| Compiled By | State Library of Queensland |
| Database Source | British convict transportation registers 1787-1867 database |
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Convict Notes
1831 - New South Wales, Australia, Convict Indents. Kains from England. Mustered;117. Died; 2. In hospital on Board 1. Number Embarked; 120 Indent No; 44 Name; Sarah McGregor Age; 16 years Read & write Catholic, Single Native Place; Liverpool Trade or calling; Nurse Girl Offence; Shop Lifting - Remarks; This woman was convicted in the Sup. Court Sydney of the Murder of Captain Waldron and sentence of Death, commuted by ... to Three years in penal colony & hard Labour - 12 July 1834 1834 - The Sydney Herald. Mon 24 Feb 1834. Page 1. LAW INTELLIGENCE. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/12848744?searchTerm=sarah mcgregor 1834 -The Australian. Fri 28 Feb 1834. Page 3. Law Intelligence. Law Intelligence SUPREME COURT- CROWN SIDE. Monday. - Judge Burton took his seat on the Bench this morning, when Sarah McGregor, convicted of the murder of Captain Waldron, was placed at the bar, and the following Jury of matrons were impannelled, whether she was with quick child, she having pleaded to her execution - Mesdames Curtis, Murdoch, Bolton, Chandler, Burns, Bailey, Burns, Le Burn, Long, Hawthorne, Levy, and Dowling. An officer was then sworn to keep the Jury until they had agreed upon their verdict; they then retired, and prisoner was taken out to them. After an absence of a quarter of an hour, they returned into Court, and found that the prisoner, Sarah McGregor, was not with child of a quick child, she might be pregnant, but whether the was with child of a quick child, they could not tell for a fortnight or three weeks. Judge Burton said, he could not take such a verdict, they had better retire and reconsider it, and if they came to the conclusion that she was pregnant, then whether in their merciful consideration they could not find that she was pregnant of a quick child. The Jury on again coming into Court, found that Sarah McGregor, to the best of their opinion, was not with child of a quick child. They were then discharged. Definition; Quick child is a fetus that has developed to such a stage that it moves within the womb of the mother. 1835 - Sarah McGregor who (with Mary Malony) was sentenced to death for the wilful murder of Captain Waldron, has received a commutation of her sentence from England, and is to be confined in the third class of the Factory, for three years. During the time McGregor has been waiting His Majesty's pleasure, she has been confined in Windsor goal, whence she was removed early on Saturday morning, in order to undergo her commuted punishment
Plenty of good information about Sarah McGregor in the Australian Family Tree connections magazine of January 2004. This can be purchased over ebay.