William Duggan Prison Records

[Heidi72]

Hi,

I’m trying to find any prison records or any more information that I can on a William Duggan or William Dugan, Born 1800 to 1802.
I’m hoping some of you amazing people may have better luck than I have. What I have been able to learn:

• Parents listed on his death certificate are William Duggan & Susan Miller
• He was convicted in Dublin in Jan 1818 for ‘pick pocketing’, sentence was 7 years transportation to the colonies.
• Convicted January 1818 (exact date unknown, I have hit a wall trying to find any more information regarding this)
• He was sent from Newgate Prison to Kilmainham Goal on 18 March 1818 (unsure why he was sent from Newgate Prison to Kilmainham Goal)
• On 6 June 1818 he was sent to board a convict ship called the ‘Tyne’ (would love to know how prisoners were transported from Dublin to Cork and what that journey would have been like)
• Tyne departed Cork on 16th July 1818 and arrived in Sydney 13th Jan 1819

Happy for any information, suggestions or anything that you can find! 

Update - thanks to 'wivenhoe' I now have a newspaper article about the robbery which states that William had 'been in custody before upon a similar charge'........ AMAZING! but where do I start to look for the last charge....

[wivenhoe]

Use     https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/

Select    Ireland
Select    1818
Search term        "William Duggan"

Finds    Saunder's News-Letter 29 Jan 1818

you can see enough to suggest it is your William DUGGAN. This is a pay-to-view site which is needed to see more.

.........silk handkerchief ....name of plaintiff.....been in custody before.

Earlier offence might be useful.

[wivenhoe]

Is this your William DUGGAN?

NSW BDM death
8260/1879   DUGGAN William   parents William / Susan   @ Paterson

You are fortunate to have a death certificate with parents named for a convict who arrived, 1818.

Who is the informant on the certificate?

[Heidi72]

I have a copy of the death certificate - his wife, Charlotte Duggan, was the informant. I realise that death certificates are not always accurate however it's a start.

Thanks so much for the info re: Saunders Newsletter. I'm trying to create an account now :-)

[chinapaddy]

Prisoner Records for Newgate Prison are held by London Metropolitan Archives:

https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F132475