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Michael Purcell was transported on the Waterloo, departing 18th Dec 1830 and arriving 30th Apr 1831 with 200 passengers.
1829 - Waterloo's first voyage arrived at Sydney Cove 9 July 1829. 180 Male Convicts. 2 Died on voyage. 7 sent to the hospital on landing. Total mustered; 171. Stephen Addison - Commander Michael Goodsire - Surgeon Superintendent [His wife was a passenger] 1842 - The Waterloo voyage of 1842 was wrecked on 28/8/1842. 189 people drowned, these being 143 convicts, 15 men of the 99th Regiment, together with 17 wives and children, the boatswain Mr. Chiverton, the sailmaker, the carpenter and 11 of the crew. Convicts were then received in Cape Town Prison from the wreck of the Waterloo, 2nd September 1842. They then completed their voyage to VDL per “Cape Packet” which arrived on 23/11/1842.
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Convict Notes
Midsummer sessions- Green-Street Michael Purcell, Samuel Walsh, Anne Walsh and Margaret Finnegan were indicted for assaulting John, Bolton and stealing from his person several bank notes and sovereigns amounting in all to 54£. .John Bolton examined- I am a pig-jobber: I met the prisoner Purcell in Michael's-lane, early on the 20th of June, in a house in which I was robbed of twelve shillings; then put myself under his protection and asked him where I could get a lodging for the night; he induced me to go to Walsh's public-house in Exchequer-street, where I got a noggin of whiskey; on our way there I showed him all the money I had, and said I was very fortunate not to have it stolen where I lost the twelve shillings ;. I had 25£ in notes and 19 sovereigns; it was in a back-room I got the whiskey, and Purcell and Anne Finnegan followed me there; Finnegan made several overtures of friendship to me, but I told her I would have nothing at all to do with her; I then gave Mrs. Walsh a half sovereign for whiskey and she returned a bad one for it, which I swear, most positively, was not the one I gave her (witness here produced the half sovereign). I got all my sovereigns weighed before I left England ; but for the curiosity of the thing, I put it into my mouth, and gave her a note. She kept the change so long as made me get into a passion, and say, that I would go away and come back again for it. When I was going off, Purcell caught hold of me; and knocked me down, and then I lost my money; Finnegan was present at the time, but I can't say she laid her hands on me; Mrs. Walsh saw the whole transaction, and Walsh himself was at the door, himself was at the door, and let the others out so quietly as induced me to believe that he was concerned with them in robbing me; Purcell went out first, and Finnegan stopped behind him for a few minutes. A watchman proved that the pig-jobber called on him in Exchequer-street, and said he was robbed in Walsh's house ; that Walsh followed him and charged Ann Finnegan, when she took to Clarendon-street watch-house; that when she was being removed from that to Fleet-street, she said, * we have done a good job.” , Another watchman corroborated the statement. Several other witnesses were examined for the defence. Purcell and Finnegan were found guilty of the stealing, and the Walsh's were acquitted. The RECORDER-The sentence of the Court is, that you, Michael Purcell, be transported beyond the seas for seven years; and that you, Anne Finnegan, be imprisoned for twelve months and kept to hard labour. Freeman’s Journal, 22 July 1830,
Irish Convict Database, by Peter Mayberry. Michael Purcell, age on arrival, 27, per Waterloo (2) 1831. Tried 1830, at Dublin, 7 years for Stealing money from person. 1 former conviction. DOB, 1804. Native place, Kilkenny. Married. Catholic. Cattle herdsman printer.