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Crime
Transportation
John Swaine was transported on the Anne 1, departing 26th Jun 1800 and arriving 26th Jan 1801 with 54 passengers.
Departed from Cork, Ireland. # Also recorded as "Luz St Anna"
Anne 1 (generic)References
| Primary Source | Irish Convict Database by Peter Mayberry. |
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Irish Convict Database. John Swaine, per Anne I (1801), Tried 1799, Life. ---------------------------------------------------- The following record may relate to this John Swaine: https://csorp.nationalarchives.ie/search/index.php?simpleSearchSbm=true&category=27&searchDescTxt=john+Swain&simpleSearchSbm=Search#searchfocus Irish National Records: CSO/RP/1819/493 Letter from William Downes, Lord Chief Justice, concerning case of a convict John Swaine, mistakenly sentenced to transportation for life Letter from William Downes, Merrion Square, Dublin, Lord Chief Justice of Ireland, to Charles Grant, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, concerning the case of a prisoner, John Swaine, transported to New South Wales for 7 years, but who owing to an error, was treated as under sentence of transportation for life. Downes states that he received Swaine's petition, recalling the details of the trial in which he presided over in 1799. States that Swaine, and another individual, John Flannigan, being then both young boys, were sentenced for stealing money, having been 'made part of a gang of Boys who lounged about the Banks in Dublin watching those who entered the Banks for business with the view of picking their pockets'. Recalls having received a petition several years ago from one of the prisoners in New South Wales, concerning the mistake in their sentence, and which Downes had urged Chief Secretary Robert Peel to send orders to authorities in New South Wales. Downes urges that justice now be done, and the men liberated, having already 'suffered 20 years transportation on a sentence for seven'.