This item from an Australian newspaper may be interesting to listers: The Hobart Town Gazette and Southern Reporter (Tasmania, Australia) Saturday, April 3, 1819 Police Office, March 22d, 1819 The under-mentioned convicts having, on the night of the 27th February last, piratically cut-out and carried off the schooner Young Lachlan from this port, their names and descriptions are now published for general information. (There follows a list of escaped convicts including:) PATRICK COTTON, 5 f. 6 ins. high, black hair, hazel eyes, aged 42, is a labourer, was born in the County Tyrone and tried at Omagh in August 1817, is sentenced for life; in the Minerva he arrived both at Sydney & Hobart Town. Regards Len Swindley, Melbourne, Australia