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Richard Ryan 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.
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Convict Notes
Richard Ryan and George Freeman, were indicted for stealing glass, the property of Messrs. Richard and Edward Ronayne, of the Terrace Glass works—and Thomas Harris, Mary Harris, Jeremiah Murphy, Timothy Keily, and Johanna Kelly, were indicted for receiving the same, knowing it to have been stolen. Edward Ronayne deposed to his glass-cutting concern at Douglas having been broken into, and robbed of glass to a considerable amount—Maurice Connell (an approver) deposed that he, in company with the prisoners, (Ryan and Freeman,) went to Douglas, and got over a ditch to the rear of the building ; that they took a number of the slates from off a part of the work shop, and having got down through the roof, they took the the glass in question, which they afterwards conveyed to the house of Connell, where it remained for a short time. Elizabeth Martin, the mother-in-law of Freeman, deposed, that Connell sent her for the bag containing the glass that she hesitated to go until she was desired to by Freeman,and having got them, she took them to the house of the Kellys’, and they were afterwards sold to the Harris’s, on the Coal-quay, who are notorious receivers of stolen property ; part of it was also offered to be pledged, and it was then stopped. Here approver, Connell, was confronted with the last witness, and both maintained their evidence, which was diametrically opposite, and notwithstanding the most acute discriminalion it was difficult to say who was the perjured parly—it would seem that both were. Anne Oakley, of Cove, purchased some of the glass from the prisoner Harris, but she could not identify her.—Charles Robinson, of Cove, deposed that his mother bought some glass from the prisoner Harris—but suspecting it had been stolen, he followed and overtook her in the street, and gave her to the police. Wm. Platt, glass cutter, identified the glass produced as Messrs- Ronayne’s property—it was in the cutting shop, on the night of the 19th August last, but not there on the following morning. Knows the prisoner Ryan, he served part of his apprenticeship to Messrs. Ronaynes’ as a glass cutter. Paul Pomeroy, foreman Messrs. Ronayne, identified more of ihe property, and matched piece into a glass plate, which plate was admitted by approver to have been broken in his endeavours get up through the roof; the piece was found on the wall near the pent house over which the robbers retired. Thiis closed the case for the prosecution, and the prisoners being celled on for their defence had nothing to offer.—Sergeant Lefboy then charged the Jury at some length, recapitulating the evidence in the most clear and distinct manner it bore on the case of each of the prisoners. The Jury after a short deliberation, returned a verdict of Guilty against Ryan and Freeman for stealing, and Mary Harris for receiving the property, and acquitted all the others—The two former were sentenced to be transported, and Mary Harris be imprisoned for six months . Cork Constitution, 3 April 1827.
Irish Convict Database by Peter Mayberry. Richard Ryan, age 21, per Eliza II (1) 1827, Tried at Cork, 1827, crime, Robbing master, sentence 7 years, Native of London England, trade – Glasscutter shoemaker, protestant, Single. DOB 1806. Colonial Secretary's Office, Sydney, 3d June, 1834 CERTIFICATES OF FREEDOM. THE undermentioned persons have obtained Certificates of Freedom since last publication :— Eliza 3, Richard Ryan Sydney Herald, 16 June 1834.