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William Meads was transported on the Cambridge, departing 2nd Jun 1827 and arriving 17th Sep 1827 with 71 passengers.
Departed Dublin 2/6/1827 Arrived Port Jackson 17/9/1827
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Convict Notes
To the Out-Pensioners. William ? for having personated John Mulligan, late an Out-Pensioner from the 8th Regiment of Foot, ?d. per diem, with the to fraudulently to obtain the Quarter’s Pension, from the 25th of December, 1826, to the of March, 1827, which John Mulligan would have been entitled, to had he lived. Convicted at Dublin, in February, 1827, and sentenced to transportation for life. Catherine Mulligan, for aiding and assisting in the above fraudulent attempt, was likewise convicted and sentenced to suffer the same punishment. William Wheeler, for tendering a Forged Pension Bill. Convicted at Dublin, and sentenced to transportation for life. William Russell, for personating and receiving the Pension of John Russell, an Out Pensioner from the ? Regiment of Foot, at 2d, per diem. Convicted at Dundalk, and sentenced to transportation for life. Saunders’s News-Letter, 20 Sep 1827.
FALSE PENSION DOCUMENTS. William Meades and Catherine Mulligan, two wretched looking beings were placed at the bar. The former charged with having falsely represented himself as a pensioner order to obtain a pension in the name of a soldier who had died some time before, and the female prisoner for having aided and abetted him in his attempt to commit the fraud. After examining witnesses and after a brief charge from Judge Jebb, who stated, that the capital count for forgery was not proved, but that the evidence was complete, as to the uttering and personating, for the purpose of committing a fraud. The Jury found both prisoners guilty. —ln the course of the day the Court sentenced them to transportation for life. The woman, on hearing the sentence, wept aloud the dock, from which the gaoler was obliged to have her removed. Dublin Mercantile Advertiser, 26 Feb 1827. William Meades and Catherine Mulligan were placed at the bar—the male prisoner on a charge of personating John Mulligan, a Chelsea pensioner, for the purpose ... ... Michael Maguire knew the real John Mulligan, who-had been a broad cloth weaver, and' heard that he had a pension from his Majesty.— The female prisoner lived with him as her husband. He was at his wake, and he seemed to be dead. At any rate was buried … ...furnished to John Mulligan, who had received the pension up to the 3d of October last—that the female prisoner had applied at the office of Major Cane, in Dawson-street, and produced this paper, stating that she was the wife of John Mulligan, and that he ... Saunders’s News-Letter, 21 Feb 1827.
Irish Convict Database by Peter Mayberry. William Meads, alias Meeds, age on arrival, 39, per Cambridge (1827). tried 1827 at Dublin, Life, for Obtaining money falsely. DOB 1788, native place, Dublin. Married, 3 children. Protestant. Weaver.