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Transportation
Catherine Mulligan was transported on the Elizabeth, departing 27th Aug 1827 and arriving 12th Jan 1828 with 195 passengers.
1828 - Elizabeth arrived from Ireland with Female Irish Convicts. Total No Embarked; 194. Drowned on voyage; 1 Died on Board; 1. Total mustered 192 on arrival at Sydney Cove 12 January 1828. 16 Children on Board Walter Cock - Commander Joseph H Hughes - Surgeon Superintendent.
Elizabeth (generic)References
| Primary Source | New South Wales, Australia, Convict Indents. Elizabeth - 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.
1835 - New South Wales, Australia, Registers of Convicts' Applications to Marry, Name: Cathe. Mulligan. Age: 31 [1805] Ship; Elizabeth. Sentence; Life. Spouse: Hugh Abernethy. Age; 30. Ship; Mellish. 7 years. Free. Granted - 6 Dec 1836 1840 - Ticket of Leave; 40/979 1856 - Conditional Pardon. No; 56/24. Dated 18 April 1856.
New South Wales, Australia, Convict Indents. Elizabeth - 1827 Indent No; 57 or 37 Name; Catherine Mulligan Age; 30 Catholic, Widow, 3 children, 2 in Ireland, and 1 WITH HER Native Place; Dublin Trade or calling; Housemaid Trial where & Date; Forgery - 26 Feb - Dublin Sentence; Life Height; 5 ft. 2 1/2 Eyes; Hazel Hair; Black Completion; Ruddy. freckled 1828 - New South Wales, Australia, Wives & Children of Irish Convicts. Name John Mulligan Ship Departure Year 1828 Arrival Place New South Wales, Australia Ship Elizabeth II Remarks Child mother convict on board Page number 258 © 1997-2025 Ancestry