Andromeda Voyage 16th Oct 1826 - 23rd Feb 1827

Andromeda
  • Set sail

  • In transit

    130 days
  • Van Diemen's Land

Andromeda

Also, same day, from Cork, whence she sailed May 25th, the ship Andromeda, 401 tons, Benjamin Gales master, with 173 female prisoners; Henry Kelsawl, Esq., Surgeon-superintendant. Passengers — Fourteen free females, viz. Mary Manning, Martha Morron, Margaret Mahon, Margaret Sheedy, Mary Ann Nixon alias Welsh, Catherine Kiernan, Mary Cassock, Catherine Stanton, Johanna Neville, Mary Lyons alias Hynes, Maria Moran, Catherine O'Donnel, Margaret Kennedy, and Mary Sullivan, and twenty-six children; also twenty-three children belonging to the prisoners. Sydney Monitor, 20 Sept 1834.

147 Convicts Onboard

ConvictConvictionTransportation
1807
Derby (Borough of Derby) Quarter Sessions
Theft - larceny
16/10/1826 - 23/2/1827
Van Diemen's Land
1793
Gloucester (City) Assizes
Stealing money
16/10/1826 - 23/2/1827
Van Diemen's Land
Derby Assizes
Not Recorded
16/10/1826 - 23/2/1827
Van Diemen's Land
1786
Leicester (Borough) Quarter Sessions
Stealing clothes
16/10/1826 - 23/2/1827
Van Diemen's Land
1804
Lancaster Assizes
Uttering/passing forged notes
16/10/1826 - 23/2/1827
Van Diemen's Land
1805 - 1886
Middlesex Gaol Delivery
Theft - grand larceny
16/10/1826 - 23/2/1827
Van Diemen's Land
Lancaster Quarter Sessions
Not Recorded
16/10/1826 - 23/2/1827
Van Diemen's Land
Surrey Assizes
Not Recorded
16/10/1826 - 23/2/1827
Van Diemen's Land
Sadberge Durham Assizes and Gaol Delivery
Not Recorded
16/10/1826 - 23/2/1827
Van Diemen's Land
1807
Salop Assizes
Burglary (house breaking)
16/10/1826 - 23/2/1827
Van Diemen's Land
1805 - 1863
Stratton
Hertford Assizes
Not Recorded
16/10/1826 - 23/2/1827
Van Diemen's Land
1807 - 1889
York (Leeds Borough) Quarter Sessions
Burglary (house breaking)
16/10/1826 - 23/2/1827
Van Diemen's Land
1808 - 1831
Hertford Assizes
Highway robbery
16/10/1826 - 23/2/1827
Van Diemen's Land
1805 - 1842
Lancaster (Liverpool Borough) Quarter Sessions
Theft - larceny
16/10/1826 - 23/2/1827
Van Diemen's Land
1811 - 1827
Northumberland (Town of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne) Assizes
Not Recorded
16/10/1826 - 23/2/1827
Van Diemen's Land
1785
Gloucester Assizes
Highway robbery
16/10/1826 - 23/2/1827
Van Diemen's Land
1803 - 1853
Warwick Assizes
Not Recorded
16/10/1826 - 23/2/1827
Van Diemen's Land
York (Leeds Borough) Quarter Sessions
Not Recorded
16/10/1826 - 23/2/1827
Van Diemen's Land
1802
Smith (Alias)
Leicester Assizes
Not Recorded
16/10/1826 - 23/2/1827
Van Diemen's Land
1798 - 1882
Wagstaffe
Warwick (City of Coventry) Assizes
Theft - larceny
16/10/1826 - 23/2/1827
Van Diemen's Land
1791 - 1827
Aberdeen Court of Justiciary
Uttering/passing forged notes
16/10/1826 - 23/2/1827
Van Diemen's Land
1804 - 1870
Gloucester Assizes
Burglary (house breaking)
16/10/1826 - 23/2/1827
Van Diemen's Land
Gloucester Assizes
Not Recorded
16/10/1826 - 23/2/1827
Van Diemen's Land
1783
Hertford Assizes
Handling/receiving stolen goods
16/10/1826 - 23/2/1827
Van Diemen's Land
1806
Lancaster Quarter Sessions
Larceny from a person (including picking pockets)
16/10/1826 - 23/2/1827
Van Diemen's Land
1805 - 1855
Hertford Assizes
Burglary (house breaking)
16/10/1826 - 23/2/1827
Van Diemen's Land
York (North Riding) Quarter Sessions
Not Recorded
16/10/1826 - 23/2/1827
Van Diemen's Land

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