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Transportation
Florence Sullivan was transported on the Eliza, departing 10th May 1832 and arriving 6th Sep 1832 with 196 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
On Monday Richard Stark, James Nowlan, and Florence Sullivan, also pleaded guilty to the charge; (drunkennesss) Stark was fined 10s, Nowlan 20s., and Sullivan was sentenced to three months' imprisonment with hard labour, as a vagrant, it being his fifth offence within twelve months, and evidence having been taken that he had no visible means of living. Maitland Mercury, 8 Aug 1849.
Source: Newcastle Court of Petty Sessions, Bench Books, 1833-1836 (Ancestry) Newcastle, 21 Aug 1835. Florence Sullivan, per Eliza 1832. Details: Florence Sullivan, patient in the hospital charged with absconding. William Button wardsman in the hospital, testified.....I was at the top hospital about 29 July four weeks ago when the prisoner was sent in from the lower Hospital to work. He worked about the hospital all day. In the evening about sun down he left the hospital to go home to the lower hospital. I have not seen him since until about ten days ago when he was brought down the country by a constable as a runaway....Charles Jones testified....The prisoner left the lower hospital on the 29th July last to go to the upper hospital to work. I took him to the upper hospital myself and gave him in charge of Mr. Craig. It was his duty to return in the evening to the lower hospital in the evening. He did not do so. He absconded and I have not seen him since until he was taken in custody....George Brooks, surgeon testified....The prisoner was a patient in the hospital at the time mentioned by the former witness. I admitted him in consequence of a letter from the Police Magistrate at Patrick Plains. He is of weak intellect but quite accountable for his conduct. I received him from the gaol where he had undergone the punishment of solitary confinement in my medical opinion ... East Maitland, Tuesday, Dec. 21, 1841. Before E. D. Day, Esq., P M. Florence Sullivan, a person of dissipated habits, a noisy and incorrigible scoundrel, one of those disagreeable persons, who, when they get too much grog on board, become noisy and quarrelsome, and disturb the whole town with their drunken brawls, was charged with being drunk for the fourth time, and as there could be no question that his general conduct had brought him within its operation, he was sentenced to six weeks' imprisonment in Newcastle Gaol under the Vagrant Act. Hunter River Gazette, 25 Dec 1841. A Very Nice Man.-At the last Quarter Sessions, a denizen of Maitland, named Florence Sullivan, better known as " Ould Killarney," was sentenced to one week's imprisonment, for assaulting a constable who was taking him to the watchhouse, under a charge of drunkenness. With the last day of his week's imprisonment Killarney was in West Maitland, and towards the evening commenced his old system of " clearing the streets," and vaunting the superior prowess of the boys of Killarney over the depraved race of other towns and counties. By some miracle this very decent gentleman escaped the clutches of the police on that evening, and has not since been heard of. Maitland Mercury, 23 Jan 1847. On Wednesday Florence Sullivan was brought up on the same charge, (drunkenness) for the fourth time within twelve months, when it appeared that he had, while drunk, begged some tobacco of Mr. Hyam Alexander, and when offered a piece, grumbled at its size, and demanded more, and some rum; Sullivan then began to use such threatening and obscene language that Mr. Alexander pushed him out, and shut the door; Sullivan then kicked at the door till he kicked a panel in, on which he was handed over to the constables. Sullivan was sentenced to three months' imprisonment as a rogue and vagabond. Maitland Mercury, 29 July 1848.
Tralee Spring Assizes. The following convictions hove taken place since the commencement of our assizes:— … Florence Sullivan, for stealing money and different other articles from Jeremiah Sullivan.—-Guilty. Same prisoner, for stealing sovereign from another man, named Casey.—Guilty. … Kerry Evening Post, 14 March 1832.
Irish Convict Database, by Peter Mayberry. Florence Sullivan, age on arrival, 40, per Eliza II (4)(1832), Tried 1832 at Kerry, 7 years, for Stealing money. DOB, 1792. Native place, Kerry Co. Catholic. Single. Labourer.