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Transportation
Thomas O'donnell was transported on the Pekoe, departing 10th Jul 1840 and arriving 7th Nov 1840 with 191 passengers.
Built Dundee, Scotland 1834. 379 tons. Rig type S. Transported convicts from Dublin, Ireland 1840 to New South Wales, Australia. List of 177 - 180 male persons. As this ship sailed direct from Ireland, the details of those on the voyage are NOT fully entered on this site, but being updated by volunteer researchers. Military Guard of the 96th Regiment plus 5 women and 11 children. Two boys, Matthew Wood (son of Michael Wood) and Patrick McArdle (son of James McArdle) - they were considered as free persons. Ship Surgeon, Robert Bower kept a Medical Journal.
Pekoe (generic)References
| Primary Source | Irish Convict Database by Peter Mayberry. |
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Convict Notes
Conditional Pardon. Dated 2 Jan 1852. Thomas O’Donnell, Pekoe. Goulburn Herald, 28 Feb 1852.
LONGFORD SPRING ASSIZES Thomas O'Donnell, Robert Walsh, and Thomas Mathews, for the highway robbery of Thos. Daly, of ten pound note, eight shillings and six pence in silver. Daly proved that he had been to Mount-Nugent with a load of wheat and having sold and received the price, he was returning home about nine o'clock on the evening of the 9th of November, when the prisoners, with two others, jumped out from behind the ditch within a quarter of a mile of Abbeylare, dragged him off his cart, rifled his pockets of the above sum. They were found guilty, and sentenced each to fifteen years' transportation. Roscommon & Leitrim Gazette, 7 March 1840.
Irish Convict Database by Peter Mayberry. Thomas O’Donnell, age on arrival, 20, per Pekoe 1840. Tried at Longford, 1840, 15 years sentence, for Highway robbery. DOB 1820. Native place, Longford Co. Trade, Labourer. Single. Catholic.