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Transportation
Richard William Vigneau was transported on the Martha, departing 18th Aug 1818 and arriving 30th Dec 1818 with 175 passengers.
410 Ton, Transported male convicts from Ireland. Register of persons on the ship are currently being listed - incomplete records to date.
Martha (generic)References
| Primary Source | Colonial Secretary Index. Irish Convict database by Peter Mayberry. |
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Convict Notes
UK, Royal Navy Medical Journals, Martha - Age: 28. Nature of the Disease; Symptoms of Typhus Fever Date taken ill: 19th Aug 1818. Notes; the Hospital and prisoner well washed and fumigated
New South Wales, Australia Convict Ship Muster Rolls and Related Records, 1790-1849 Age; 28. Offence; Vagrant
City of Dublin Quarter Sessions. The only case particularly worthy of notice was that of Richard Vigneau, who was indicted under the Statute as a vagrant and vagabond, one who had no visible means of earning his bread. He was convicted under the clearest testimony of Hadly, Turpin and Ward, Peace Officers of the Sixth Divisional Office of Police, as an idle, dissolute character, who had been leagued with robbers of the worst description, and who, to save his own neck, had given evidence against his comrades in crime and who had perjured himself on the table at the trial of the two Moores (who were since executed) for the robbery of Mr. Orr’s house Templeogue. In defence, he called upon George Hill, Esq. of the Common Pleas, who stated that he certainly had given him an account of the robbery of his house, full and circumstantial—which afterwards turned out to be exactly the truth; but that Gentleman’s testimony did not in the slightest degree exculpate him from the charge of being a vagrant, vagabond, &c. &c. The Recorder passed sentence—that he should be transported for seven years, pursuant to the Statute, unless he could, in the course of three months, procure good, substantial and solvent bail, two sureties in fifty pounds each and himself in one hundred pounds. This will be the means of ridding society of a being who ought to have been an ornament to it, instead of being the veriest wretch that ever disgraced humanity. Saunder’s Newsletter, 18 March 1818.
Irish Convict database by Peter Mayberry. Richard William Vigneau, age 27, per Martha (1818), tried at Dublin City, 1818, 7 years, native of Dublin, Revenue Clerk, DOB 1791. -------------------------------------------------- https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C4106788 ADM 101/51/1 . Medical and surgical journal of W Morgan Price, Surgeon, from Cove of Cork to New South Wales in the transport ship Martha between the 18 August 1818 and the 4 January 1819. Folio 3: 19-22 August 1818. R W Vigneaux, aged 28; disease or hurt, symptoms of typhus fever. Taken ill, 19 August 1818. Folio 7: 9-11 September 1818. R W Vigneaux discharged 9 September 1818. Colonial Secretary Index. VIGNEAU, Richard William. Per "Martha", 1818 1819 Jan 4 - On list of convicts disembarked from the "Martha" and forwarded to Parramatta for distribution (Reel 6006; 4/3499 p.245) 1819 Dec 10 - On list of prisoners to be sent to Newcastle per "Princess Charlotte"; listed as Vigman (Reel 6007; 4/3501 p.104) 1822 Oct 11; 1823 Feb 8 - On list of prisoners assigned; listed as Vignear and Vigneaue (Fiche 3291; 4/4570D p.126)