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Voyage
Transportation
John Mcneill was transported on the Guildford, departing 12th Jul 1829 and arriving 4th Nov 1829 with 201 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
| Primary Source | Irish Convict Database, by Peter Mayberry. |
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Convict Notes
ADM 101/31/5 Medical journal of the Guildford, male convict ship, for 14 May to 14 November 1829 by J Stephenson, Surgeon and Superintendent, during which time the said ship was employed in a voyage to New South Wales. Folios 25-33: John McNeil, aged 20, convict; sick or hurt, dysentery; put on sick list 23 September 1829, discharged 4 November 1829. Folios 25-33: 23rd September 1829, the first of these patients [Peter Hart] was a stout florid, very well looking young man but lazy and inanimate, the other [John McNeil] an idiot from infancy with a paralytic affection of the right hand and arm, active, bustling and very passionate, they were put on the list the same day for the same symptoms, but of the two McNeil was the more severely affected, they were both as cold as ice had intolerable pain in the bowels, constant inclination to go to stool, the dejections were almost entirely blood.
Irish Convict Database, by Peter Mayberry. John McNeill, age on arrival, 22, per Guildford (8) 1829. Tried at Longford. 1829, 7 years for Stealing cotton cloth. 3 former convictions. DOB, 1807, native place, Longford. Single. Catholic, Trade, Farm boy.