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Transportation
Bryan Roveen was transported on the Eliza, departing 19th Jul 1827 and arriving 8th Nov 1827 with 194 passengers.
The Eliza was a 511-ton (later 538 ton) merchant ship built in British India in 1806. She made five voyages transporting convicts from England and Ireland to Australia.
Eliza (generic)References
| Primary Source | Various convict records (per Ancestry) BDM NSW Death Reg. No. 4714/1876 NSW Govt. Gazette of 25 Nov 1845, page 1323 |
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Convict Notes
Ireland National Archives. Ireland Australia Transportation Database. Bryan Roveen, Trial at Co Longford, Trial Date: 00/03/1827 Crime: Administering unlawful oaths. Sentence: Transportation Life. Doc Ref: CRF 1845 R 21. Doc Date: 11/1/1845.
Dublin Morning Register 14 March 1827: 'LONGFORD ASSIZES ...Bryan Ruein (sic) and James Cox were tried under the Whiteboy Act, for administering an unlawful oath, the purport of which was, to be ready to take up fire arms. They were sentenced to transportation for life.'
Irish Convict Database by Peter Mayberry. Bryan Rovcen, alias Rucein Reeson, age 28, per Eliza II (1) 1827, Tried at Longford, 1827, crime, Unlawful oaths, sentence Life, Whiteboy rebel, Native of Longford, trade – Farm man stockman, Catholic, Married 1 child. DOB 1799. --------------------------------------------------- Colonial Secretary's Office, Sydney, 24th November, 1845. PARDON. HIS Excellency the Governor directs it to be notified, that the Right Honorable the Secretary of State for the Colonies, has transmitted in his Despatch of the 30th June, 1845, No. 68, a Free Pardon which Her Majesty has been graciously pleased to grant to James Cox and Bryan Roveen, both by the ship 'Eliza’ 3. By His Excellency's Command, E. DEAS THOMSON. New South Wales Government Gazette, 25 Nov 1845.