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Transportation
Joseph Savage was transported on the Martha, departing 18th Aug 1818 and arriving 30th Dec 1818 with 175 passengers.
410 Ton, Transported male convicts from Ireland. Register of persons on the ship are currently being listed - incomplete records to date.
Martha (generic)References
| Primary Source | New South Wales, Australia Convict Ship Muster Rolls and Related Records, 1790-1849 Colonial Secretary's Index 2 entries Sydney Gazette 15 Feb 1822 Ancestry.com Sydney Gazette 6 May 1830 |
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Convict Notes
ANTRIM ASSIZES. The following sentences were passed on prisoners convicted at these assizes :— … To be transported for seven years— … —Joseph Savage and James Orr, stealing silver knives — ... Belfast News-Letter, 12 Aug 1817. Joseph Savage and James Orr, for stealing two silver butter knives, the property of George Rippet, Belfast. G Rippet, messman to the 92d regiment—…. Belfast News-Letter, 5 Aug 1817.
Believed to have been executed & buried alongside co-offenders, Thomas Sharpe, brothers Ben & John Burrell on 30 April 1830 in the Glebe Cemetery, East Maitland. His name does not appear on burial registry alongside the others that day, but Sydney Gazette 6 May 1830 lists all to be executed and there is no further record of him living following that date. NSW Death registration 1830 V1830295 127
Sentence of death passed for robbery in the house of Samuel Adair when part of a bushranger gang back on 22 November 1829
1825 Employed by Mr Middleton at Newcastle (Possibly Reverend Middleton)
1822 convict runaway returned to Newcastle via the Elizabeth Henrietta
Listed as having absconded from the Newcastle settlement
On 1821 list of prisoners transported to Newcastle
New South Wales, Australia Convict Ship Muster Rolls and Related Records, 1790-1849 Age; 20. Offence; larceny from House