Hi all felt it was time to express my appreciation for these great Tipperary lists and wish all a Merry Christmas. In particular thanks to Janet, Mary & Christine for their energy & generosity. I didn't find any of my rels on the list of men arrested under the Act but was intrigued by the list of transportees, so started having a look at who on the list actually did end up in Australia. So far it looks like 25 of the 35 named as transported were, and in short order; they were almost all agricultural labourers, ploughman, shearers, fencers reapers ( there was one soldier and one indoor servant) and I haven't yet found any other sentence than 7 years which was the shortest given to transportees. Unfortunately the actual 'crime' was often not specified in this period but it's likely that there wasn't violence involved or they would have been given longer sentences. It's an irony that men who were probably protesting about their inability to earn their living because of lack of work were sent to a place where they could be used as cheap labour but where their services were in demand. Robyn Hardie Sydney

Thank you, Robyn, for looking up the fate of the transportees. Perhaps when you have finished, you could add an addendum to the Arrests List as to when they arrived where and the length of the sentence. It appears here that most of them were just "absent from home" when some mischief was going on in the neighborhood, and so were implicated in the trouble. It would also be interesting to know if they stayed in Australia or returned back to Ireland, but that might be too much to ask of you, or too hard to determine. I would assume that if they stayed, their family, or part of them, would follow them. Janet On Dec 17, 2007 7:41 AM, D and R Hardie <darnhard@ozemail.com.au> wrote: > Hi all > felt it was time to express my appreciation for these great Tipperary > lists and wish all a Merry Christmas. > In particular thanks to Janet, Mary & Christine for their energy & > generosity. > I didn't find any of my rels on the list of men arrested under the Act > but was intrigued by the list of transportees, so started having a look > at who on the list actually did end up in Australia. > So far it looks like 25 of the 35 named as transported were, and in > short order; they were almost all agricultural labourers, ploughman, > shearers, fencers reapers ( there was one soldier and one indoor > servant) and I haven't yet found any other sentence than 7 years which > was the shortest given to transportees. Unfortunately the actual > 'crime' was often not specified in this period but it's likely that > there wasn't violence involved or they would have been given longer > sentences. > It's an irony that men who were probably protesting about their > inability to earn their living because of lack of work were sent to a > place where they could be used as cheap labour but where their services > were in demand. > Robyn Hardie Sydney > _______________________________________________________ > Websites for Tipperary: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~irltip2/ > http://www.rootsweb.com/~irltip/tipperary.htm > http://www.rootsweb.com/~irlarchive/tipperary/index.htm > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > IRL-TIPPERARY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >