Folio 24: 10 July 1823, punished G Stewart and J Stewart for fighting, to clean the...

ADM 101/63/6/7

1822-1823

Folio 24: 10 July 1823, punished G Stewart and J Stewart for fighting, to clean the deck for 10 and 8 days respectively.

Folio 24: 11 July 1823, foul wind but weather fair throughout the day.

Folio 24: T Savage, Convict; disease or hurt, dysentery. Put on sick list, 11 July 1823. Discharged, 18 July 1823.

Folio 24: R Collins, Soldier; disease or hurt, lumbago. Put on sick list, 11 July 1823. Discharged, 15 July 1823.

Folio 24: 12 July 1823, barbers employed shaving, 'at 4pm issued 6 ½ gallons wine to convicts and examined their faces and hands and put all clean'.

Folio 24: 13 July 1823, at 11 read prayers to the convicts, all clean dressed.

Folio 24: 14 July 1823, at 10am all the blankets hung out to air and inspected at 4pm. Punished F McCourt and J McDermot with 18 cobs over the [breech] and P Dinning and A Boylan to 12 each, for having dirty blankets.

Folio 24: J Mulligan, Convict [actually a Soldier]; disease or hurt, cephalalgia. Put on sick list, 14 July 1823. Discharged, 20 July 1823.

Folio 24: 15 July 1823, punished J Corcoran for towing his clothes overboard, confined on bread and water. Convicts complained of pork being bad, taken form cask opened on 12th, many pieces rotten and all apparently old.

Folio 25: 16 July 1823, foul wind and fair weather throughout the day, daily routine.

Folio 25: C Brennan, Convict; disease or hurt, dysentery. Put on sick list, 16 July 1823. Discharged, 28 July 1823.

Folio 25: 17 July 1823, punished J Cronin [Cronan] for losing his trousers, confined on bread and water for 24 hours.

Folio 25: 18 July 1823, received a wrapper for repairing trousers. Punished E Quin for losing a shirt, confined on bread and water and to clean the privy for 14 days. Foul wind and rainy weather throughout the day.

Folio 25: 19 July 1823, all the convicts shaved, daily routine.

Folio 25: 20 July 1823, daily routine, a sermon read to the convicts below.

Folio 25: J Classon, convict; disease or hurt, dysentery. Put on sick list, 20 July 1823. Discharged, 31 July 1823.

Folio 25: 21 July 1823, punished A Stewart for bad language to a sentry, confined for 24 hours on bread and water.

Folio 26: 22 July 1823, blowing fresh NNW throughout the day, at 8pm bore up to go round Van Diemen's Land finding a passage could not be effected through Bass Straits.

Folio 26: 23 July 1823, punished T Mahir for insolence to a sentry, confined on bread and water for 24 hours. Steering round Van Diemen's Land with strong westerly breezes throughout the day.

Folio 26: 24 July 1823, at 3pm sighted Jarman's Head, Van Diemen's Land, at 20 miles distance. Fair wind throughout the day.

Folio 26: 25 July 1823, punished E Quin, R Moyley and L Mooney for going aloft, to clean the deck for 10 days.

Folio 26: 26 July 1823, light southerly wind and fine weather throughout the day, usual daily routine.

Folio 26: 27 July 1823, at 11am read prayers to convicts below. Punished J Garvan for striking B Flanigan, confined on bread and water.

Folio 27: 28 July 1823, daily routine, a bread bag received for trousers.

Folio 27: 29 July 1823, Mount Dromedary, New South Wales, sighted 50 miles to the West.

Folio 27: 30 July 1823, at 4pm mustered all the convict clothes and found deficient on the voyage 7 pairs trousers, [11] shirts and 2 beds and blankets. At 10pm anchored in Port Jackson.

Folio 27: 31 July 1823, anchored in Sydney Cove at 3pm, received notice from the Colonial Secretary of inspection of convicts to take place in the morning.

Folio 27: 1 August 1823, at 11am the Colonial Secretary came aboard and mustered all the convicts, no complaints being made.

Folio 27: 2 August 1823, at daylight washed clothes and the main deck, convicts freely admitted to the deck. Usual daily routine.

Folio 28: 3 August 1823, at 11am read prayers below, at 4pm issued the last of the wine. At 9pm received notice that the convicts are to disembark the following morning.

Folio 28: 4 August 1823, at 5am all the convicts dressed in their new clothes and breakfasted. At daylight dockyard boats came alongside and disembarked all 180 convicts, being the original number put on board at Cork. At 11am all the convicts examined at the gaol yard by His Excellency the Governor who expressed himself much pleased at their healthy appearance. All satisfied with their treatment during the voyage.

Folio 28: David Ivors, aged 10 months, Soldier's Child; disease or hurt, 'idiotic and subject to convulsions from birth, constantly rolling its head and eyes about, appears quite insensible to all external objects but gives a faint smile on being shaken. Face pale and body emaciated'. Put on sick list, at Cork. Died at sea, 9 July 1823. Treated with warm baths, purgatives, opiate frictions over the breast and belly.

Folios 28-29: John Burns, aged 40, Convict; disease or hurt, foul ulcer on the left leg and a severe cough, stuffing in the breast and considerable thick mucus expectoration. Put on sick list, 4 March 1823, at Cove of Cork. Discharged, 16 May 1823.

Folio 29: James Gallon, aged 35, Convict; disease or hurt, severe cough and mucous expectoration mixed with pus and blood, evidently advance in phthisis. Put on sick list, 4 March 1823, at Cork. Discharged to Cork Jail, 15 March 1823.

Folio 29: William O Berne [Byrne], aged 25, Convict; disease or hurt, cynanche tonsillaris. Put on sick list, 4 March 1823, at Cork. Discharged, 11 March 1823.

Folio 29: John Horne, aged 21, Convict; disease or hurt, pain of right side and short cough, bad appetite and constipation with lumbago. Put on sick list, 4 March 1823, at Cork. Discharged, 3 April 1823.

Folio 29: Patrick McGarthaney, aged 30, Convict; disease or hurt, just been discharged from hospital where he was under salivation for venereal, an open bubo still in his groin, caught cold in the brig from Dublin and is now labouring under catarrh. Put on sick list, 5 March 1823, Cork. Discharged, 22 April 1823.

Folio 29: Hugh Galaghy, aged 22, Convict; disease or hurt, had cough and expectoration for 15 weeks, aggravated by a cold caught in the brig. Put on sick list, 22 March 1823, Cork. Discharged, 27 March 1823.

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