Summary
Personal Information
Voyage
Transportation
John Mcveigh was transported on the Blenheim, departing 29th Jul 1851 and arriving 31st Oct 1851 with 309 passengers.
Built 1845 at Shields. Wood ship of 808 Tons. Register lists of persons transported on the various sailing is still a work in progress, not all are yet listed.
Blenheim (generic)References
| Primary Source | Linc Tasmania. Tasmanian Archives - convicts, conduct record & indent. http://search.archives.tas.gov.au/ImageViewer/image_viewer.htm?CON14-1-42,539,440,L,80 |
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Convict Notes
A search on the convict indent gives his family as: Father - Owen Mother - Katherine Sisters - Katherine & Mary all at his native place of Co. Armagh. John was 5'5 3/4"; aged 28yrs; not literate; single.
Rosie Drysdale (35) at 1:40pm, 31st August 2013 wrote of John Mc Veigh: John McVeigh was tried in Armagh, Ireland on 8th March 1849 for the crime of burglary, house robbing and stealing money from Mr Wood of Armagh. He was aged 28 years, a farm labourer, and arrived in PA on 31 Oct 1850, departing Cork, Ireland. John died at PA 10th March 1869. Database No 47009. John is an interest to my research, as I believe he may be related to my ancestor, Sarah McVeigh from Armagh Ireland, who arrived in Melbourne in 1854. I suspect that she may have come looking for her brother, but with no family information available about convict John McVeigh, there is no evidence to connect the two. John could not read or write, was RC, fresh complexion, dark brown hair, brown eyes, slightly pockpitted, and his native place was Armagh.