Margaret Voyage 30th Apr 1840 - 18th Aug 1840

Margaret
  • Set sail

  • In transit

    110 days
  • New South Wales

Margaret

Built 1829 at Chepstow. 365 tons. Female prisoners were transported to New South Wales on the 'Margaret' in 1837, 1839 and 1840. The 'Margaret' was the last convict ship to transport female prisoners to New South Wales. Another voyage to Van Diemen's Land in 1843. The 1840 sailing also carried 17 free female passengers and one male. The registers of persons is not yet complete on this web site, so please note this if researching. (A work in progress.)

78 Convicts Onboard

ConvictConvictionTransportation
1823
Ireland, Cork
Not Recorded
30/4/1840 - 18/8/1840
New South Wales
1805
Ireland, Fermanagh
Stealing clothes
30/4/1840 - 18/8/1840
New South Wales
1823
Ireland, Cork
Not Recorded
30/4/1840 - 18/8/1840
New South Wales
1801
Ireland, Cork
Stealing clothes
30/4/1840 - 18/8/1840
New South Wales
1805
Ireland, Galway
Not Recorded
30/4/1840 - 18/8/1840
New South Wales
1820 - 1897
Ireland, Galway
Stealing clothes
30/4/1840 - 18/8/1840
New South Wales
1814 - 1910
Ann Burnside
Ireland, Down
Not Recorded
30/4/1840 - 18/8/1840
New South Wales
1817
Ireland, Dublin
Stealing clothes
30/4/1840 - 18/8/1840
New South Wales
1819
Caffry
Ireland, Wicklow
Not Recorded
30/4/1840 - 18/8/1840
New South Wales
1823 - 1865
Carlyle, Blackster, Blaxter
Downpatrick/County Down/Meath
Not Recorded
30/4/1840 - 18/8/1840
New South Wales
1816
Ireland, Antrim
Not Recorded
30/4/1840 - 18/8/1840
New South Wales
1822 - 1875
Tipperary Ireland
Stealing clothes
30/4/1840 - 18/8/1840
New South Wales
1822
Ireland, Dublin City
Shop lifting
30/4/1840 - 18/8/1840
New South Wales
1824
Ireland, Dublin City
Stealing clothes
30/4/1840 - 18/8/1840
New South Wales
1816
Ireland, Monaghan
Not Recorded
30/4/1840 - 18/8/1840
New South Wales
1783
Ireland, Monaghan
Not Recorded
30/4/1840 - 18/8/1840
New South Wales
1817 - 1841
Ireland, Down
Vagrancy
30/4/1840 - 18/8/1840
New South Wales
1818
Ireland, Dublin City
Shop lifting
30/4/1840 - 18/8/1840
New South Wales
1825
Ireland, Donegal
Not Recorded
30/4/1840 - 18/8/1840
New South Wales
1814 - 1876
Barry
Ireland, Mayo
Not Recorded
30/4/1840 - 18/8/1840
New South Wales
1821
O'connor
Ireland
Manslaughter/culpable homicide
30/4/1840 - 18/8/1840
New South Wales
1818
Ireland. Tipperary
Arson
30/4/1840 - 18/8/1840
New South Wales
1820
Donoghoe, Donohue
Ireland, Longford
Perjury
30/4/1840 - 18/8/1840
New South Wales
1812
Mary A Doyle
Ireland, Dublin City
Stealing sugar
30/4/1840 - 18/8/1840
New South Wales
1816
Ireland, Louth Assizes, Dundalk
Not Recorded
30/4/1840 - 18/8/1840
New South Wales
1812 - 1857
Dunne
Ireland, Dublin City
Not Recorded
30/4/1840 - 18/8/1840
New South Wales
1810
Antrim Court (Ireland)
Stealing money
30/4/1840 - 18/8/1840
New South Wales
1821
Ireland, Kilkenny
Stealing clothes
30/4/1840 - 18/8/1840
New South Wales
1810
Ireland, Tipperary
Not Recorded
30/4/1840 - 18/8/1840
New South Wales
1815
Farlong
Ireland, Wexford
Not Recorded
30/4/1840 - 18/8/1840
New South Wales

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