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The female prisoners per the Almorah were drafted to Parramatta on 25th August
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The 'Almorah' arrived from ireland with female prisoners having sailed from Cork 8 April. Also brought 15 free women and 50 children. One prisoner and one child died on the passage out. Surgeon Superintendent Dr. Price R.N.
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Convict Indents. State Archives NSW; Series: NRS 12188; Item: [4/4009A]; Microfiche: 654
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Muster Roll of Female Convicts arrived in Sydney Cove on Friday 20th day of August 1824 on board the Transport ship Almorah (3rd). Boyd master, from Ireland. Held on board the said ship on Monday the 23 of said month by Frederick Goulburn Esq., Colonial Secretary by Command of His Excellency. Original number embarked of whom one died on the voyage and one disembarked at Cork. Recapitulation - Mustered 108, died 1, disembarked 1. Total 110. The prisoners mustered appear in good health, declare themselves well treated and have been well spoken of by the Surgeon Superintendent and Commander, signed Morgan Price, Surgeon and G.H. Boyd, Commander
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Application to marry
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Bond. Application to marry John Dorkins
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Convict Indents. State Archives NSW; Series: NRS 12188; Item: [4/4009A]; Microfiche: 654
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Penelope Bourke, age 20. Tried in Galway August 1822. Sentenced to transportation for life. Conduct during the voyage very good
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Laundress assigned to William Ogilvie
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Granted ticket of leave
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Application to Marry
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Penelope Burke aged 21, application to marry John Kelly per Guildford.
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Colonial Secretarys Papers
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Sentenced to 2 hours in the stocks and the Factory for 6 months for drunk and disorderly conduct
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Penelope (Penny)
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Charged with being repeatedly drunk although frequently admonished. Carried in a state of drunkennes to the watchhouse and sentenced to 2 months in Class No.3 of the Female Factory
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Bourke (Burke) (Dorkins)
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Register Book of Christ Church Cathedral, Newcastle
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Marriage of John Dorkins and Penelope Burke both from Merton
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Bourke (Dawkins)
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Penelope Dawkins nee Bourke, daughter of Edward. Died at Singleton in 1872
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Bourke (Dorkins)
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Penelope Bourke Revisited - Norma Townshend
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Sentenced to transportation for life for aiding and abetting one John McDonnell in an attempt to commit a rape on the body of Mary Connor, a woman of bad repute http://www.jstor.org.rp.nla.gov.au/stable/27516677
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Convict Indents. State Archives NSW; Series: NRS 12188; Item: [4/4009A]; Microfiche: 654
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Bridget Carroll, age 25. Occupation knitter. Tried at Limerick 26 July 1823. Sentenced to 7 years transportation. as 1 child. Husband in Co. Limerick. Very well behaved on the voyage out
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Carroll (Mitchell)
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Application to Marry
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Joseph Allwright aged 41 arrived per Earl St. Vincent application to marry Bridget Mitchell aged 31 arrived per Almorah
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Application to marry
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Free. Application to marry Robert Smith
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Convict Indents. State Archives NSW; Series: NRS 12188; Item: [4/4009A]; Microfiche: 654
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Margaret Delaney, age 25, occupation housemaid. Native place Cork Co. Tried in Cork 15 July 1823. Sentenced to 7 years transportation. Unmarried. Very good conduct on voyage out
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Convict Indents. State Archives NSW; Series: NRS 12188; Item: [4/4009A]; Microfiche: 654
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Catherine Donnley age 29. Native place Dublin. Tried at Dublin 29 October 1823, sentenced to 7 years transportation. Has one child in the north of Ireland, her husband came as Hugh Brannigan on the Prince Regent. Very quiet on the voyage out
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Donnley (Donald) (Donnelly)
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NSW Courts Magistrates, Newcastle Police Court: 1823-1825 (Ancestry)
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Catherine Donald per Almorah in the service of John Smith. Charged with drunkenness and disorderly conduct. Mr. Smith states the prisoner was directed to assist another of my servants yesterday in preparing dinner, when she went into the kitchen she commenced quarrelling with the other servant, refusing to assist her, broke the plates and threw a knife at the other which missed her but lodging against the wall, turned the point. She was drunk and is frequently insolent to me and her mistress. Her insolence corroborated by Mr. Smith s servant. The prisoner denies being either drunk or insolent. Sentenced to solitary confinement for 48 hours.
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Donnley (Donnelly)
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Colonial Secretarys Papers. Copies of Letters Sent Within The Colony, 1814-1827
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Correspondence to Rev. Middleton - At the requst of John Large a constable of Newcastle Gaol, I have the honor of stating that Catherine Donnelly when mustered at the time of her arrival in the ship Almorah, acquainted me that Hugh Brannagan was her husband, a convict who came to this colony by the transport Prince Regent