Genealogical Society of Victoria Online Shop

Book

Together with the first two publications in this series Desperate set of Villains (A) :The convicts of the Marquis Cornwallis, Ireland to Botany Bay 1796 and A Nimble fingered tribe: The Convicts of the Sugar Cane, Ireland to Botany Bay 1793, biographical details of over 500 Irish Convicts are revealed. The combined indexes contain over 2000 names.

This third book in a series of five traces the lives of 145 convicts on one of the smaller ships to arrive during the 1790s. It nevertheless had a violent element to its cargo, and a large contingent of convicts from the North of Ireland.

Arrivals include Laurence Davoren, fiery republican lawyer and his wife Alice; Thomas Biggers, a short-tempered overseer; John Kenny, school teacher and murderer; Mary Bryan, Mary Curran and Catherine McLean, highwaywomen who dressed as men to rob the Wicklow Mail; robber Joseph Flood, father of Edward Flood, a Lord Mayor of Sydney; James McCarthy, labelled a rebel in Ireland, and who became a well respected Catholic leader in Sydney; Bryan Reilly, rebel and marshal of the croppies at the Battle of Vinegar Hill; and many more.

260pp, extensive bibliography with index and footnotes