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Michael Sullivan was transported on the Castle Forbes, departing 28th Sep 1823 and arriving 19th Jan 1824 with 142 passengers.
The Castle Forbes was a 439-ton merchant ship built by Robert Gibbon & Sons at Aberdeen, Scotland in 1818. She made two voyages transporting convicts from Ireland to Australia. Castle Forbes arrived at Port Jackson, New South Wales on 27 January 1820. After their arrival in Sydney, 136 men were sent on to Van Diemen's Land Colony (now named Tasmania), arriving in Hobart 1 March 1820. 4 men remained in New South Wales and 4 deaths recorded on this voyage. Alexander Pearce (the infamous bushranger) was one of these men. (Incomplete register of persons transported - records are currently being inputted)
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| Primary Source | Irish Convict Database, by Peter Mayberry. |
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Colonial Secretary Index. SULLIVAN, Michael. Per "Castle Forbes". 1824 Feb On monthly return of prisoners punished at Newcastle (Reel 6023; 4/1718 p.177) --------------------------------------------------- Place: Newcastle, 23 February 1824 Source: NSW Courts Magistrates, Newcastle Police Court: 1823-1825 (Ancestry) Details: Michael Sullivan, William Neale, John Jones, Timothy Coffee, Martin Briant and Dennis Hasset, all arrived on the Castle Forbes in 1824, and assigned servants to Alexander McLeod at Luskintyre, charged with violently assaulting their overseer and beating and ill treating him in a most cruel manner ....Thomas Biggers states… I am upwards of sixty years of age. I am Mr. McLeod’s overseer at Luskintyre. I desired the prisoners to go to work in the morning. They refused generally and said go to Hell you old bugger. Sullivan then came to me and asked if I had not reported that his father had been hanged. I replied No. Upon which he struck me with a hand spike. Neale struck me with a hand spike. The others stood by laughing and gave me no assistance. I was knocked down and beat repeatedly as I lay on the ground and am severely bruised in different parts of the body. By order of the court this witness was stripped of his upper clothing and his arms and shoulders exhibited the marks of very severe bruises. Michael Sullivan and William Neale were sentenced to 100 lashes each and sent to Port Macquarie for the remainder of their sentence for violently assaulting beating and ill-treating their overseer and for refusing to work. John Jones, Timothy Coffee, Martin Briant, and Dennis Hasset were sentenced to 50 lashes each for refusing to work and encouraging and abetting Sullivan and Neale in their outrageous conduct. -------------------------------------------------- Convict Index, 1791-1873. Michael Sullivan, Castle Forbes, 1824, Ticket of Leave, 28/332. District, Wallis plains. Lim 1823. Michael Sullivan, Castle Forbes, 1824, Certificate of Freedom, 26 July 1830. 30/0543. TL 28/332; (reported to have died)
Irish Convict Database, by Peter Mayberry. Michael Sullivan, age on arrival, 34, Castle Forbes (2) 1824. Tried Limerick, 1823, 7 years, DOB 1790. Native place, Limerick Co. Ploughman.