Folio 26: 7 July 1824, all patients, except Walsh, improving, McDaniel occasionally...

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1824

Folio 26: 7 July 1824, all patients, except Walsh, improving, McDaniel occasionally in a 'strait waistcoat'. Weather fine.

Folio 27: 8 July 1824, Anne Walsh suffering oppressive respiration.

Folio 27: 9 July 1824, Walsh's respiration still oppressed, other patients improving.

Folio 27: 10 July 1824, prison etc. properly cleaned and kept dry.

Folio 27: 11 July 1824, blowing a gale, unable to perform divine service. Convicts have behaved well, some of the free women continually quarrelling. The Surgeon remarks that the health of the prisoners, free women and children surpasses his 'most sanguine expectations'.

Folio 27: Biddy Coggins and Margaret Coggins; disease or hurt, pyrexia. Put on sick list, 12 July 1824. Cured, 16 July 1824 [folio 28].

Folio 28: 13 July 1824, blowing a gale, prison and between decks cleaned as well as circumstances permit.

Folio 28: 14 July 1824, Bridget Fitzgerald punished for disorderly conduct. She had a knife and was threatening the lives of two or three of the prisoners. She had been refused passage by two previous surgeons as being 'not a safe woman to be taken on a voyage' but had been well behave up to this point.

Folio 28: Cunningham; disease or hurt, a contusion from a fall. Put on sick list, 14 July 1824. Cured, 22 July 1824 [folio 30].

Folio 28: 15 July 1824, all patients much the same, between decks cleaned and properly fumigated.

Folio 28: 16 July 1824, Cunningham suffering very oppressive respiration.

Folio 28: 17 July 1824, all patients improving. Mary Rian handcuffed for her violent and intemperate disposition after being detected in a falsehood. 'This old woman is perhaps among the worse in the prison, and is capable of inventing any story to cloak her own conduct'.

Folio 29: 18 July 1824, with a few exceptions the prisoners have been well behaved the last week. The Surgeon comments that punishment shave not been severe or frequent although, in his opinion, 'we have as ill disposed characters aboard' as were ever sent out.

Folio 29: Mary Heny [Heaney]; disease or hurt, acute pain of the thorax and a contusion from a fall a few days earlier. Put on sick list, 18 July 1824. Cured, 21 July 1824.

Folio 29: 19 July 1824, patients much the same, decks cleaned as usual.

Folio 29: 20 July 1824, all patients improving.

Folio 29: 21 July 1824, blowing very fresh, prisoners on deck occasionally. Condron and Margaret Kelly handcuffed for abusive language to the First Officer. Mrs Moore, a free woman, inclined to be abusive to the First Officer, 'I have every reason to believe that this woman is exceedingly ill disposed and would be guilty of any bad transaction, I have already proved she has been knitting stockings from Government [...] for one of the sailors and even employing one of the convicts to do the same'.

Folio 30: 22 July 1824, in direct opposition to orders, Mrs Moore, a free woman, carries on correspondence with one of the sailors, her conduct throughout has been very indifferent.

Folio 30: 23 July 1824, McCarthy much the same, McDaniel much better, Cunningham cured.

Folio 30: 24 July 1824, all on boards as well as can be expected.

Folio 30: 25 July 1824, McDaniel, 'the fear of the strait waistcoat by length brought this poor creature about tolerable well'. Unable to perform divine service due to blowing very hard. There has been more punishment by handcuffing in the last week because some wine was stolen from the hold by some sailors and given to the prisoners. Petty thefts etc. were often practised during the night.

Folio 31: 26 July 1824, prison and between decks cleaned and kept as dry as circumstances would permit.

Folio 31: 27 July 1824, patients improving, all on board as well as can be expected.

Folio 31: 28 July 1824, blowing a gale, prison cleaned as well as circumstances would allow.

Folio 31: 29 July 1824, blowing as yesterday.

Folio 31: 30 and 31 July 1824, has been blowing a gale for four days, prison can only be partially cleaned. Issued 77 towels to free women and convicts.

Folio 31: 1 August 1824, blowing very hard and unable to perform divine service. Between decks kept as dry as possible. Convicts have behaved well for the past week, there has only been occasion to handcuff two or three of them, Mrs Moore continues to be rather troublesome.

Folio 31: 2 August 1824, all except McCarthy in good health.

Folio 31: 3 August 1824, much the same as yesterday.

Folio 32: 4 August 1824, Mary Moore and Jane Murphy handcuffed for fighting. Lemon juice all expended, many of the cases [of lemon juice] were not full.

Folio 32: 5 August 1824, much the same as yesterday.

Folio 32: Judith Masterson; disease or hurt, arterial haemorrhage from the mouth. Put on sick list, 6 August 1824. No date of discharge or cure, last note reads 'Much the same', dated 9 August [folio 33]. Had been under alterative medicine for some time past for venereal nodes and syphilis.

Folio 32: 7 August 1824, Masterson, haemorrhage not so great as yesterday.

Folio 32: 8 August 1824, prisoners have behaved well for the last week. Mustered and inspected free women, children and prisoners, all appeared clean and properly dressed. Divine service.

Folio 33: 9 August 1824, McCarthy and Masterson much the same.

Folio 33: 10 August 1824, at 10am Catharine Moran [Maram] delivered of two female children, born prematurely and with little hope of survival. In the evening they were privately baptised, naming them Mary and Kitty McCarty. Before embarkation she acknowledged the father to be the under gaoler at Cork, who was turned out of his position in consequence.

Folio 33: James Byrne [Byrnes], a free boy; disease or hurt, in a very debilitated state for some time and sinking fast. Put on sick list, 10 August 1824. No date of discharge or cure recorded, last mention reads 'Better', dated 16 August 1824 [folio 34].

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