Summary
Personal Information
Crime
Voyage
Transportation
Mary Sullivan was transported on the Australasia, departing 26th Jun 1849 and arriving 29th Sep 1849 with 203 passengers.
Built 1847 at Sunderland. Wood barque of 500 Tons. Passenger/transportee's are currently being listed (incomplete at this date)
Australasia (generic)References
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Claims
"Family connection - spouse is a descendant"
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Convict Notes
Name: Sullivan, Mary Record Type: Convicts Employer: Ball, Thomas: 1851 Dowling, William P.: 1851 Lloyd, John: 1851 Departure date: 26 Jun 1849 Departure port: Dublin Ship: Australasia Place of origin: Cork Origin location: Latitude and Longitude Voyage number: 314 Index number: 68456 Record ID: NAME_INDEXES:1438396 https://libraries.tas.gov.au/Record/NamesIndex/1438396
Tasmanian Records. Australasia Indent: https://libraries.tas.gov.au/Digital/CON15-1-6/CON15-1-6/CON15-1-6P46 and https://libraries.tas.gov.au/Digital/CON15-1-6/CON15-1-6/CON15-1-6P47 Mary Sullivan, age 22, proper name Mary Leary, Country servant, tried at Kings Co, 28 Dec 1848, 7 years. Native place, Co Cork, single, catholic, can neither read or write. Relations: F, Denis, M, Betty; B, Ml, Pat, john, Denis; S, Bridget, N=Margaret, Betsy at N.P. Offence: Stg clothes, pro Hersy; Ship character, Good. 3 months for a pig.
Research by several branches of descendants now believe the surnames occasionally used by Mary Sullivan uxor Livingstone : "Lucas" and occasionally "Leary" and "O'Leary" - were all employed to confuse authorities and to distance Mary, Charles and their 6 daughters from their earlier involvement with the VDL penal system. Mary's choice of "Leary" most probably stems from her mother's maiden name, and not from a previous marriage of Mary before she was transported. With husband Charles' repeated criminal activity once the family moved to Victoria ~1859, and his subsequent frequent imprisonments in that state, Mary was largely left to support and raise her children all by herself. Daughter Susan died in 1864 of accidental scalding at just 2 years of age; daughter Jane Agnes aka "Jennet" died of TB aged 22 in 1884. Charles & Mary's 4 surviving daughters between them produced 44 grandchildren.
Mary Sullivan/nee Leary/Livingston/Lucas was transported for 'Stealing a shirt'. Mary "Leary" must have married a "Sullivan" before she arrived, then married Charles "Livingston/e" who then changed his name to "Lucas" when they moved to Victoria. Mary was born at Bantry, County Cork, Ireland, was 22 years old on arrival, illiterate, 4'11" tall, fresh complexion, slightly freckled, dark hair, blue eyes, single. Father Denis Leary; mother Betty; brothers Michael, Pat, John and Denis; sisters Bridget, Margaret and Betsy. Assigned to Simeon Benjamin, Liverpool St, Hobart. 31 January 1851: Assigned Thomas Ball, Macquarie St, Hobart for 12 months at £7 pa.8 1 April 1851: Assigned William P Dowling, Harrington St, Hobart for 12 months at £7 pa.8 8 August 1851: Assigned to John Lloyd, Huon for 12 months at £7 pa. 10 May 1852: Married Charles Livingstone (Lord Petre) at St John’s CE Church, Franklin; Mary aged 22, spinster, servant, illiterate; Charles aged 34, bachelor, labourer; They had 6 children. 27 July 1852: Ticket of Leave granted. c28 September 1852 Absconded from her authorised place of residence at Franklin. 28 December 1855: Free by servitude. c1859 Moved to Victoria with family and changed name to Lucas. 29 December 1879: Husband Charles Livingstone/Lucas died from a self-administered overdose of morphine at Cobar, NSW. 5 July 1901: Mary died of senile debility and hypostatic pneumonia at Daylesford Hospital, VIC; aged 73.