Ballinrobe Courthouse and Assembly Rooms featured many interesting trials and meetings including those involved in the Boycotting event c. 1880, with others being tried for manslaughter, pig stealing, robbing the mills, wives petitions to join transported husbands etc…
Can you imagine the utter helplessness of a man caught poaching, perhaps a rabbit from land his family might have previously owned, to feed his starving family…
Over the centuries since the Courthouse and Assembly Rooms opened c. 1750 many trials of people from the community took place, with resulting transportation or jailing. It has been brought to my attention by Gerry Walsh of Australia, who forwarded the records shown below which are now available to the public.
Records
Upon research it was discovered that The National Archives of Ireland holds a wide range of records relating to the transportation of convicts from Ireland to Australia, covering the period 1788 to 1868. In some cases these include records of members of convicts’ families transported as free settlers.
While the collection of convict petitions dates from the beginning of transportation from Ireland to Australia in 1791, all transportation registers compiled before 1836 were destroyed in the Four Courts fire of June 1922.
If you are researching family history these records maybe helpful. However, for convictions before 1836, but not the subject of a petition, he or she will not appear on this database. In other words, the records from which the transportation database was compiled such as the transportation registers, convict reference files and petitions to government for pardon or commutation of sentence, are incomplete.
To get further information go to:
http://www.nationalarchives.ie/topics/transportation/search01.html
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