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Personal Information
Voyage
Transportation
Mary Tierney was transported on the Minerva, departing 18th Aug 1839 and arriving 26th Dec 1839 with 119 passengers.
The Minerva was built at Lancaster, England in 1804. 4 voyages bringing convict transportees to Australia.
Minerva (generic)References
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Convict Notes
Absconded. Tierney Mary, Minerva (6), 19, Limerick, nursery maid, 5 feet 0¾ inches, sallow and freckled comp., light brown hair, dark grey eyes, diagonal scar centre of forehead, scar back of middle finger of left hand, from Lewis Barnett, Sydney, since May 24. NSW Govt Gazette, 27 May 1840.
National Archives. ADM 101/54/6B. Medical journal of the convict ship Minerva, for 18 August to 26 December 1839 by Patrick Magovern, Surgeon and Superintendent, during which time the said ship was employed in a voyage from Dublin to Sydney, New South Wales. Folio 4: Mary Tierney, aged 20; convict; case number 6; sick or hurt, pleuritis; put on sick list, 7 September 1839, discharged 12 September 1839.
RULE OF COURT. Transportation—To transported for seven years: … Mary Tierney and Anne Cole, stealing money from Edw. Blake ; Limerick Chronicle, 6 July 1839. The Chief Constable and a party of police last morning left this with the following convicts for Kilmainham:—viz. from the county gaol, Ellen Finherty, Catherine Bradshaw, Margaret Buckley, and Catherine Ryan, to be transported for 7 years for robbery, and the following from the city gaol:— Catherine Kelly, Margaret Fitzgerald, Mary ...ney, Maryanne Young, Sarah Ryan, Mary Kennedy, Ann Gleeson, Ann Cole, Margaret Hartigan, Johannah Courtney, Catherine Sullivan, and Margaret Burke, same offence. and like sentence Limerick Chronicle, 13 July 1839.
Irish Convict Database, by Peter Mayberry. Mary Tierney, alias Tierny, age on arrival, 18, per Minerva II (2) 1839. Tried, 1839 at Limerick City, 7 years, for Stealing money. DOB, 1821, Native place, Limerick. Catholic. Single, Childs maid.