LIST OF EMMIGRANTS ASSISTED BY THE HIGHLAND AND ISLAND SOCIETY AND EMBARKED ON  BOARD THE SHIP LOUISA WHICH SAILED FROM PLYMOUTH FOR VAN DIEMENS LAND ON THE 24th SEPTEMBER 1852.
 
 

Surnames - McDIARMID.

McDIARMID      Donald          34   Stein          Skeabost      236                   Malcolm        13

The particulars of this case will be found at page 123, in the  second  volume of the  correspondence  of  the Highland Emmigration Society.

"The family was in a state  of extreme destitution. The young son  brought  home  a sheep from the hills & induced his mother to dress a portion of it, but the father when he returned hence expressed  extreme  disapprobation  at  what  they had done and caused mother and son to walk 25 miles to Portree and surrender themselves to justice. The son was pardoned, and was afterwards sent to  Australia,  but  the mother  was  transported  and she was permitted to take the three youngest children with her."
 

(Appended by W.B.C.)
A search of the convict records held at the Archive Office in Hobart shows that Marion McLeod alias  McDearmit  (should be spelt McDiarmid) arrived  on the  Sir Robert Seppings, which sailed from Woolwich on the 18th March 1852, and arrived in  Hobart on the 8th July 1852.

The record states that she was transported for sheep stealing and was allowed to take 4 children with her. In the "Service" column of the report after a date of 7th Feb 1853 it states that her husband D. McDiarmid was at Mr. Murdoch's New Norfolk.
(Number of children does not agree with HIES record)

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