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Patrick Sullivan was transported on the Hadlow, departing 2nd Apr 1820 and arriving 5th Aug 1820 with 153 passengers.
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CLARE ASSIZES ENNIS, JULY 29. The present Assizes have Been more remarkable for capital convictions than any held here for a considerable time past. On Monday was capitally convicted, James and Patrick Sullivan, and John Burns, for murder, at Moyrhee, in March, 1818; Burns and James Sullivan were executed yesterday at the front of the New Jail, in the presence, we believe, of from ten to twelve thousand ; Pat. Sullivan, in consequence of the interference of the jury, was respited. Saunder’s News-Letter, 6 Aug 1819.
Colonial Secretary Index. SULLIVAN, Patrick. Per "Hadlow", 1820. 1824 Aug 31 On list of Government servants in the employ of Sir John Jamison; from Aug 1820 (Reel 6061; 4/1780 p.257b) 1825 On list of convicts mustered in the employ of Sir John Jamison; in 1823-25 (Fiche 3138; 4/1842B No.413 p.668) 1825 Dec 9 Convict in the service of Sir John Jamison of Regent Ville at the last two musters (Reel 6016; 4/3516 p.102) -------------------------------------------------- NSW 1828 Census Index. Patrick Sullivan, age 26, G.S. Hadlow, 1820, Life, catholic, Labourer, Sir Jno Jamieson, Evan district. -------------------------------------------------- NSW Convict Index. Patrick Sullivan, Hadlow, 1820, Ticket of Leave, 29/224.. District, Evan/Bathurst; Patrick Sullivan, Hadlow, 1820, Ticket of Leave, 32/37. District, Parramatta; Born Clare; Trade, Labourer; Tried, Clare. Patrick Sullivan, Hadlow, 1820, Conditional Pardon, 31 Dec 1836. No 860.
The Times of Saturday May 23 1818 reports a barbarous murder of an alleged informer as follows: "For some time past the Excise officers in the district of Ennis in Ireland paid visits to the Commons of Moyree where illicit distillation seemed to take its stand and bid defiance to law and civilisation. On a late occasion some bailiffs accosted in the following manner a Revenue officer and bailiff in that quarter: "We know who gives you information against our still and by God you shall never see Bridget Cullinan alive again". This declaration was not regarded with any seriousness because Bridget Cullinan was totally unknown to the officer. However it appears that a woman of that name resided in the above neighbourhood, whom these illicit adventurers suspected of having given information against them; and this marked victim of foul suspicion was most barbarously murdered on the night of Wednesday se'nnight, and was thrown into a well or pool, where her body was discovered the following morning. An inquest has been held on the body by Thomas Ievers, Esq., Coroner, when, after a full investigation of the dreadful circumstance, the Jury found - "that on the night of the 13th inst. John Burns, Martin Burns, Thomas Roughan, Patrick Sullivan, James Sullivan, Michael O'Connor and J. Whelan, together with other persons unknown, broke into the house of John Hynes of Moyree and thereout dragged Bridget Cullinan, late of Moyree, whom they beat and abused in so savage a manner as to occasion her immediate death, and after her decease they conveyed her body to a pool of water, about 500 yards from Hyne's (sic) house, into which they threw it." -------------------------------------------------- Clare assizes. The execution of the four unfortunate wretches who were hanged , pursuant to sentence, at the Ennis Assizes on Wednesday and Thursday week, is calculated to awaken those horrified feelings which accounts of savage ferocity perpetrated centuries since, would fail to inspire. We would almost wish to avoid the contemplation of these scenes that led the fatal consummation of this miserable Drama, but our duty wills it otherwise, and sickening at the retrospect, we must still look on it, till vision, disgusted, refuses to perform its wonted office; the crime for which the first two suffered was murder; murder in such a shape as renders description hideous; the victim, an unfortunate female, who was supposed to have given information relative to illicit distilleries in the district of Moyree. .At the close of a fine evening a few months since, she passed, as frequently her custom, the house of John and James Sullivan, wherein their companion, John Burns, was, employed in the making of whiskey--- as the woman passed, Sullivan's mother called out in Irish, “there goes Biddy, the informer”— the men paused, gazed at each other, and at that instant, revenge and murder expelled reason and humility their souls—the ill-starred Biddy pursued her course, and they resumed their work, until they found it completed, without the hindrance, which Biddy's appearance had led them to expect; joy at their success induced them to drink, freely of the newly-finished spirits —but this only added to their thirst for vengeance, and nought but the blood of their miserable victim could quench its fire—armed with various weapons they left their cottage, and in one short hour Biddy the informer was no more. On entering the hut, which could not resist their attack, the foremost struck her a blow on the head with a stone which fractured the scull, and laid her at his feet : a yell of savage joy announced the triumph, and the prostrate, almost inanimate being was raised from the earth to undergo some more refined cruelties — she was placed against the wall, and her breasts were severed from the body; all trembling with agony, she shewed signs of life, till with more pity than the rest, by repeated hits with a knife and pitchfork, made in the side and stomach, completed the work of carnage ; Finding her no longer capable of administering to their horrid pleasures, they precipitated the fallen carcase into an adjacent river, and cooly informed a man who lived near to it, that there was a woman drowning. He, perhaps, aware of their character, or at least suspecting something, he told them he would not open his door, that if drowned, his assistance would be of no use. They could gain no admittance, and retired—their hands and persons begrimed with gore. When they had gone, he came out, and found what to him appeared to have been a human body, but so mutilated as scarce to retain the semblance. They were arrested, convicted, and received that punishment they merited —forty-eight hours from the time sentence was passed, were allotted to them — A clergyman of Roman Catholic faith attended, and, we trust, his constant admonitions were not lost. (Limerick Advertiser) Morning Chronicle, 21 Aug 1819. -------------------------------------------------- Monday, July 2th. John Burns, James Sullivan and Patrick Sullivan for the murder of Bridget Collision, at Moyrhee. One of these misfortunate men has been respited, the other two are to be hanged at five o'clock this evening. ... John Burns and James Sullivan were executed on Wednesday evening, at the drop in front of the new gaol, in the presence of a great concourse of people, for the murder of Bridget Cullinan at Moyrhee; British Press, 10 Aug 1819.
Irish Convict Database by Peter Mayberry. Patrick Sullivan, age on arrival, 24, per Hadlow (2) 1820, Tried 1819 at Clare, Life, DOB, 1796, native place, Clare, Trade, Labourer.