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Bridget Rourke was transported on the Francis And Eliza, departing 15th Dec 1814 and arriving 8th Aug 1815 with 125 passengers.
The Francis & Eliza was built on the Thames in 1782 (345 tons). The Francis & Eliza and the Canada departed Cork in convoy on 5 December 1814.The Francis and Eliza was taken on 4th January by the American Warrior privateer. She was plundered before being given up and allowed to continue on the journey. Captain Harrison was removed on board the privateer, and detained many hours but was afterwards liberated and restored to his own ship. Captain Harrison later reported that while the ship lay at Sierra Leone, in the month of March, a terrible fever raged at that settlement, occasioning a mortality most dreadful.The Francis & Eliza and Canada sailed from Sierra Leone together for the Cape of Good Hope, where they arrived the 12th May and remained three weeks to refresh. Fifty-two male prisoners and sixty-five female prisoners arrived in Port Jackson on the Francis and Eliza on 8 August 1815. (Ref. Sydney Gazette 12/08/1815)
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Convict Notes
1825 - New South Wales and Tasmania, Australia Convict Musters. 1825 Name; Bridget Rourke Age; No Details Class: T. L. Vessel; Francis & Eliza- 1815 Employment/Remarks; LIVES with Thos. Hughs
Windsor Quarter Sessions. On Wednesday last, a Court of General Quarter Sessions of the Peace was holden in the Court-house at Windsor, before the Chairman (WILLIAM FOSTER, Esq.) and a Bench of Magistrates. During the sittings, which terminated on Saturday, the following prisoners were convicted: Bridget Rourke, for stealing a piece of print, the property of John Tighe, twelve months in the 3rd class of the factory. Sydney Gazette, 22 Oct 1828.
Irish Convict Database by Peter Mayberry Bridget Rourke, age on arrival, 50, per Francis and Eliza, (1815), Tried at Roscommon Co., 1814, 7 years. DOB, 1765, native place, Roscommon. Servant.
ROURKE, Bridget. Per "Francis and Eliza", 1815 1815 Aug 14 - On list of convicts disembarked from the "Francis and Eliza" & sent to the Govt Factory at Parramatta (Reel 6004; 4/3494 p.139) 1816 May 6 - Re permission to marry at Windsor (Reel 6004; 4/3494 p.478) NSW 1828 census at the Government Factory, Parramatta. Brit. Rourke, age 57, Free S. (By servitude) Franc. & Eliza, 1812, 7yr sentence & 12 months Colonial . religion: catholic.