The Troubled Life of Bridget Magahan

Bridget Magahan had a bad temper and liked a drink: Magahan's…
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Bridget Magahan had a bad temper and liked a drink: Magahan's Convict Record indicates that, following her trial at Middlesex in May 1827, where she was found guilty of larceny, Magahan was sentenced to be transported for 7 years, arriving in Van Diemen's Land in November 1827 aboard 'Sovereign', along with 80 other female convicts, many of them also having passed through the court at Middlesex. Her offence, which she admitted, was stealing a gown. Despite periods in the Cascades Female Factory and being 'free by servitude' her record indicates a tendency to gross and disorderly conduct (including striking her husband, William Peel, a fellow convict), being drunk and disorderly, removal 'to the other side of the Island', receiving wine and spirits taken from the Government Stores, etc.,. The final entry of November 1841 (14 years after her arrival in the Colony) was for a sentence of 10 days in solitary confinement for disorderly conduct while she was working as a laundress at the Colonial Hospital at Launceston.

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