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Voyage
Transportation
Michael Mcnamara was transported on the Andromeda, departing 28th Aug 1830 and arriving 18th Dec 1830 with 71 passengers.
Also, same day, from Cork, whence she sailed May 25th, the ship Andromeda, 401 tons, Benjamin Gales master, with 173 female prisoners; Henry Kelsawl, Esq., Surgeon-superintendant. Passengers — Fourteen free females, viz. Mary Manning, Martha Morron, Margaret Mahon, Margaret Sheedy, Mary Ann Nixon alias Welsh, Catherine Kiernan, Mary Cassock, Catherine Stanton, Johanna Neville, Mary Lyons alias Hynes, Maria Moran, Catherine O'Donnel, Margaret Kennedy, and Mary Sullivan, and twenty-six children; also twenty-three children belonging to the prisoners. Sydney Monitor, 20 Sept 1834.
Andromeda (generic)References
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Convict Notes
Irish Convict Database, by Peter Mayberry. Michael McNamara, age 25, Per Andromeda II 1830, Tried 1830 at Cork, 7 years, for Robbing master. DOB, 1805, Native place, Cork Co. Single, Catholic, Trade, Ploughman shepherd milkman. ----------------------------------------- Michael McNamara, for stealing horse, saddle and bridle, and great coat, the property of George Evans, who deposed that, on the 19th of Jan. last, he was riding from Rathcormac to Fermoy, when he met the prisoner, whom he had known before ; he seemed much fatigued, and witness dismounted and made prisoner ride the horse ; he also gave him his great coat ; coming into Fermoy, witness went into his own house for moment, and coming out, he saw the prisoner riding the horse furiously Cork Hill; he got his horse next day in field near Cork, the bridle and saddle in another place, and the coat in a pawn-office..—Guilty. The same Prisoner was again put forward, charged with having stolen a blue frock coat, property of John Lyons. appeared that he lodged in the same house prosecutor, and that the coat was hanging up in the room where he slept, and in the morning he slipt out with the coat and when taken on the coal-quay, he acknowledged the fact—Guilty. The Court sentenced him transportation for 7 years, Southern Reporter, 27 March 1830.