would this John Ward be the same as the one listed on the Ireland - Austalia transportation database ?
Name : John Ward
Place of Imprisonment: Hulk "Surprise" Cork
Document date: 19/12/1824
Sentence: Transportation
Document reference: PPC 2501
Notes : Letter from the convict to his
father, John, c/o James Armstrong, 45 Cook Street,
Dublin, asking him to petition for mitigation
of his sentence to confinement.
The details in that records suggest that the Cook Street address is that of Mr. James Armstrong rather than for John Ward snr. One of the other entries on the database mentions that John snr's occupation is labourer.
Someone else was on here searching for this John Ward a while ago - I'll try to locate the post.
A copy of the Transportation database can be searched on the National Archives website :
here Shane
