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Personal Information
Crime
Transportation
Margaret Thompson was transported on the Eliza, departing 3rd Nov 1829 and arriving 24th Feb 1830 with 118 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.
Eliza (generic)References
| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 89, Class and Piece Number HO11/7, Page Number 235 (120) |
| Source Description | This record is one of the entries in the British convict transportation registers 1787-1867 database compiled by State Library of Queensland from British Home Office (HO) records which are available on microfilm as part of the Australian Joint Copying Pro |
| Original Source | Great Britain. Home Office |
| Compiled By | State Library of Queensland |
| Database Source | British convict transportation registers 1787-1867 database |
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Convict Notes
Folios 25-30: Margaret Thomson, aged 36, convict, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, mania, seized suddenly with hysteric pyroxyms consisting of fits of violent convulsive movment, incoherency and violent delirium, has been long subject to fits of epilepsy; put on sick list 6 December 1829, died 28 January 1830. Folio 30: 29 January 1830, inspected the body of the above patient, found the lungs generally adhering with many tubercles in the substance of the lungs, but none in state of suppuration, the abdomen liver was found toberculated and much contracted in bulk, stomach toward the pyloric extremely thicken and hard with diffused redness.