The Honour Costello Family

Children:

Known Localities:

• St. Clement Danes parish, Westminster, London, Middlesex County, England (1756)

• Middlesex County, England (1756)

• Annapolis, Anne Arundel County, Maryland (1756)

• Prince William County, Virginia (1762)

Chronological Timeline:

On 17 Jun 1753 within St. Catherine's parish in Dublin, Ireland, was baptized John son of Thos. and Honor Costella; the sponsors were Arthur Walsh and Honor Springthorp.

NOTE: Is this the same Honor?

SOURCE: https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/61039/images/07138_02_0031
SOURCE: https://www.irishgenealogy.ie/view/?record_id=f5ccfe2d0a-47282

On 25 Feb 1756, within the Proceedings of the Old Bailey, appears the widowed Honnor Castellow:

"119. (M.) Honnor Castellow, widow, was indicted for stealing one linen shirt, value 6 d. one silk handkerchief, value 2 s. one dimity stock, value 2 d, one metal stock-buckle, value 1 d. and one linen apron, value 1 s. 6 d. the goods of Richard Bilton, Feb. 25 .

Richard Bilton . I lost the goods that are mentioned in the indictment last Wednesday about 12 o'clock: I was just come in with these things from the washerwoman, and went to draw a tankard of beer; the prisoner and 3 Irish men were just come in; when I came up with the beer, they and the things were gone; I ran out and met the woman in Fleet-street, near the end of Salisbury-court; I asked her if she had been at the Castle in Portugal-street; she said no. I laid hold of her hand, and the apron and things dropped from under her arm; a man struck me, and said she should not go with me, but a gentleman said she should go; then the man went away and left us. The goods produced in court."

SOURCE: https://www.oldbaileyonline.org/record/t17560225-11
SOURCE: https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/70814/records/347042

On 23 Mar 1756, the churchwarden of St. Clement Danes parish in Westminster, London, Middlesex County, England paid 2 pounds & 2 shillings to "Mr. Jno. Smith for prosecuting & convicting Honour Costello of shoplifting."

SOURCE: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-GYWB-BSY

The publication The Complete Book of Emigrants in Bondage, 1614-1775, by Peter Wilson Coldham (published 1988 by Genealogical Publishing Co.; Baltimore, MD), states the following:

"Costello, Honor. S Feb-Apr T Jun 1755 Lyon. M."

The publication's introduction includes a list of abbreviations used:

• M = Middlesex

• S = Sentenced to transportation

• T = Transported

From that information we can deduce Honor Costello was sentenced to transportation in Feb-Apr 1755. In June 1755, he was transported out of Middlesex aboard the Lyon.

NOTE: I suspect 1755 is an error; it should be 1756.

SOURCE: https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/61074/images/46253_542970-00201

The publication The Kings Passengers to Maryland and Virginia, by Peter Wilson Coldham (published 1997 by Family Line Publications; Westminster MD), states Honor Costello arrived in 1756 at Annapolis, Maryland.

NOTE: Review actual book for all data provided.

SOURCE: https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/7486/records/401968

In June 1756 in London, 91 convicts were loaded aboard the ship Lyon, which arrived in Annapolis, Maryland on 30 Aug 1756. The convicts were sold into 7 years of indentured servitude.

NOTE: Another known convict aboard Lyon was William Logan, appearing as "William Login" in the 28 Apr 1756 court record above.

NOTE: Honor Costello's indentured servitude would've been completed as early as August 1763, at least seven years after the ship Lyon arrived in Annapolis, Maryland.

SOURCE: https://www.historiclondontown.org/post/william-logan

On 7 Jun 1762 in Prince William County, Virginia, the court oversaw "the examination of Honor Castilo and Edward McDonaugh on suspicion of felony. Honor Castilo and Edward McDonaugh being & brought before the court by precept from under the hand of William Tebbs gent. on suspicion of stealing a treasury note of five pounds belonging to John Baylis gent. being examined by the court and the witness against them being heard the opinion of the court is that the said Honor Castilo be hence discharged, and that the said Edward McDonaugh received on his bare back at the Publick Whipping post twenty lashes well laid on & that he be hence discharged."

SOURCE: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS4X-MHZZ-S