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Transportation
Peter Murphy was transported on the Asia V, departing 6th Aug 1831 and arriving 2nd Dec 1831 with 90 passengers.
Built in Calcutta in 1814, 523 tons Rig Type: S The Asia transported prisoners from counties throughout Ireland including Wexford, Cork, Clare, Athlone, Mayo, Limerick, Carrick. Galway, Roscommon, Tipperary, Kerry, Waterford, Belfast and Monaghan. Their crimes included varous forms of stealing and robbery, assault, vagrancy, highway robbery, house robbery, receiving, assault, manslaughter and whiteboy crimes.
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Convict Notes
Clare Special Commission John Costello, Maurice Molony, Patrick Hickey, Patrick Maguire, Thomas Curry, Patrick O’Brien, Peter Murphy, Thomas Qualy, and Patrick Collins, were indicted for assaulting and demolishing the habitation of Charles Williams, at Lisdeen, and administering to him an unlawful oath. Verdict Guilty. Williams exclaimed twice thrice during the trial, that he was so persecuted on account of Mr. O’Connell, during the last election, that the prisoners were tenants of O’Gorman Mahon, and himself being a Kerry man. The Attorney-General, prayed the immediate sentence of the Court in those cases, and those the day before, as means were hand for carrying it into instantaneous execution. Judge Moore then passed sentence of transportation for life in a feeling and eloquent manner upon the prisoners, seventeen in all. They were removed from the dock forthwith, placed upon cars outside the Court, and guarded by a strong detachment of the Carbineers, and 76th Regiment, forwarded on their destination, followed the cries of thousands of people in the streets. This makes aggregate of thirty-nine persons actually on their route for transportation to this day. Dublin Evening Mail, 10 June 1831.
Irish Convict Database by Peter Mayberry. Peter Murphy, age on arrival, 21, Per Asia V (2) 1831, Tried at Ennis Clare Co, Life for Unlawful oaths, Irish White Boy rebel, DOB 1810, native place, Clare, Single, Labourer. Catholic.