Ireland to Australia on the 'Mangles 2' 1822
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Re: Ireland to Australia on the 'Mangles 2' 1822
 fcm131
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Posted: 27 Jan 2009 5:29AM GMT |
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http://www.irishmidlandsancestry.com/content/offaly/communit... is good background to the times and the Insurrection Act.
James Sperin (sic) on the Mangles Indent was 28; Convicted in Co Limerick at Special Sessions (i.e. Insurrection Act); for "Offence under the Insurrection Act; 7 yrs; Native Place Co Limerick; calling Ploughman. On arrival he was assigned to Thomas Chaseling, Portland Head Windsor (agricultural outside Sydney).
Dublin Freeman's Journal of 21 Mar 1822 covered seven trials incl Jim.
"The Court observed that this prisonerhad the benefit of acquittal in point of law on his first trial; but the prisoner was found absent on the second night from his dwelling, and that he had come wqithin the letter of the law. The prisoner had come from a neighbourhood from whence he might have derived the benefit of a good character; yet not an individual was produced to exculpate the prisoner from the charge preferred against him. He was therefore a fit object to be transported for seven years."
The Sydney Morning Herald of Monday April 18, 1831 has Govt Notice :
To Be Constables….James Sperin, per Mangles (2) from 11th ultimo.
The name Sperin or any derivatives does not/not appear in Catholic Croagh Church records of Baptisms/marriages 1837-1900.
James Sperin (sic) on the Mangles Indent was 28; Convicted in Co Limerick at Special Sessions (i.e. Insurrection Act); for "Offence under the Insurrection Act; 7 yrs; Native Place Co Limerick; calling Ploughman. On arrival he was assigned to Thomas Chaseling, Portland Head Windsor (agricultural outside Sydney).
Dublin Freeman's Journal of 21 Mar 1822 covered seven trials incl Jim.
"The Court observed that this prisonerhad the benefit of acquittal in point of law on his first trial; but the prisoner was found absent on the second night from his dwelling, and that he had come wqithin the letter of the law. The prisoner had come from a neighbourhood from whence he might have derived the benefit of a good character; yet not an individual was produced to exculpate the prisoner from the charge preferred against him. He was therefore a fit object to be transported for seven years."
The Sydney Morning Herald of Monday April 18, 1831 has Govt Notice :
To Be Constables….James Sperin, per Mangles (2) from 11th ultimo.
The name Sperin or any derivatives does not/not appear in Catholic Croagh Church records of Baptisms/marriages 1837-1900.