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[004539] [Convict Transportation] Patrick Fallan – Transportation Document. Lancaster: No Publisher, 1835. First Edition. 4to. Unbound. Ephemera. Good. Single sided (though with docket title to reverse), part printed, part manuscript document, approximately 205mm x 245mm in size

Creased from old folds, browned and lightly spotted, chipped to edges, with small closed tear to one fold

Transportation order for Patrick Fallan who had been convicted of “feloniously marking and counterfeiting silver coin”, and was duly transported “beyond the Seas for the term of his natural life”. Fallan was held on the ‘Justitia’ hulk (the second prison hulk so named, see Campbell, The Intolerable Hulks, page 227) at Woolwich, before being transported with three hundred and five other convicts on the ‘Mary Ann’, leaving Sheerness on the 6th July 1835, and arriving in New South Wales on the eleventh of November 1835. Fallan was presumably Irish, and doesn’t seemed to have been rehabilitated, as a later record from 1847, noting that though Fallan was ‘a ticket-of-leave’ holder, he was admitted to Newcastle (NSW) gaol from the circuit court, and was sentenced to another fifteen years transportation for robbery from the person (from jenwilletts.com)