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Transportation
Anne Mcmahon was transported on the Brothers, departing 3rd Oct 1826 and arriving 4th Feb 1827 with 159 passengers.
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Convict Notes
Convicts Index 1791- 1873. Anne McMahon, per Brothers 1827, Certificate of Freedom, Date: 10 Jul 1833. Wife of Patrick Bradley, per Almorah (1820), fbs, (as stated on her C.F.)
Colonial Secretary’s Office, Sydney, 23d July, 1833. THE undermentioned Persons have obtained Certificates of Freedom during the last week, viz. Brothers (2), Ann M‘Mahon
Dundalk Assizes. Child Stealing. Anne McMahon, indicted for stealing a female child, 14 months old. the daughter Michael McCarter, barber, at Dundalk, in the month of August last. M. McCarter lives in Dundalk. At the time mentioned, his eldest daughter, 11 years age, was sitting near the church of Dundalk, with the child in her arms. Prisoner came to her and gave her a penny, desiring her go and get her tobacco for it; she went, returned, and both child and prisoner were gone. After period three days, which were spent by poor McCarter and his wife in searching every where, even as even far as Dublin, the prisoner and child were taken by the police, at Enniskeen, seven miles from Dundalk. On her way to Dundalk she acknowledged to the police that she had taken the child. It did not appear nor did she state what motive had induced her to commit such an act. The child died on Wednesday last. She was found guilty; to be transported 7 years. Belfast Commercial Chronicle 15 March 1826.
Irish Convict Database by Peter Mayberry Anne McMahon, aged 26, ship - Brothers (2), 1827, tried at Dundalk Louth Co., 1826, sentence 7 years, for Stealing child, DOB, 1801. Native of Monaghan. Single 1 child. her trade was country woman. Catholic.