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Transportation
Rose Morgan was transported on the Mariner, departing 2nd Mar 1825 and arriving 10th Jul 1825 with 115 passengers.
The 1825 Journey. The ship Mariner, Captain Fotherley, arrived from Ireland with female prisoners, on Sunday evening. She left the Cove of Cork, the 12th of March, and brings 112 female prisoners, having lost only one on the passage. A few passengers also came per this opportunity. Surgeon Superintendent Dr. Cochrane, R. N. Sydney Gazette, 14 July 1825.
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Convict Notes
Theft. George, Elizabeth, and Ann Mellish, and Rose Morgan, were found guilty of stealing £l3 in notes, and 19 tenpennies, off the person of a countryman who had been seduced into Mellishs’ infamous house; old Mellish had returned about £5 of the money.— George Mellish and Rose Morgan were sentenced to be transported for seven years; and Elizabeth and Ann Mellish were also sentenced to a similar term of' banishment but were told that they would be recommended to the Executive as fit objects for the Dublin Penitentiary. Belfast Commercial Chronicle, 16 Aug 1824. ------------------------------------------------------------- On Monday the undermentioned convicts passed through this town, on their route to Dublin, from the Gaol of Carrickfergus :— To be transported for seven years.—Ellen Dunn, Anne Mellish, Frances Stewart, Eliz. Heyburn, Margaret M‘Guire, Mary Patterson, Rose Morgan. To be transported for fourteen years.—Mary Screen, alias Johnston. To be transported for life.--Elizabeth Moon, alias Harkin. Belfast Commercial Chronicle, 8 Dec 1824.
Irish Convict Database by Peter Mayberry. Rose Morgan, age on arrival, 24, per Mariner (2) 1825, Tried Antrim Co., 1824, 7 years, for Stealing from person. DOB 1801, native of Cavan Co. Catholic. Married husband soldier in 91st Regiment. Washer woman. -------------------------------------------------- Marriage Permission – Disallowed. John Bax, per Speke (2), age 32, 7 years, Bond, Disallowed; and Rose Morgan, age 26, 7 years, Bond, Disallowed. Parramatta, 3 Jul 1830, Revd. Samuel Marsden. -------------------------------------------------- Convict Index 1791-1873. Rose Morgan, Per Mariner 1825, Certificate of Freedom, 16 Aug 1831.