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Voyage
Transportation
Violetta Atkins was transported on the Lady Juliana, departing 31st May 1789 and arriving 3rd Jun 1790 with 247 passengers.
Launched 1777, 401 ton barque, built at Whitby, England. Departed Portsmouth, England on 29 July 1789, via Cape of Good Hope for Port Jackson, New South Wales, Australia on 3 June 1790. 1790 voyage carried 226 female passengers (convicts)- 5 of whom died on the trip. 6 children also on board. Significant because it was the first ship to bring all female women to the Colony.
Lady JulianaReferences
| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 87, Class and Piece Number HO11/1, Page Number 19 (11) |
| Source Description | This record is one of the entries in the British convict transportation registers 1787-1867 database compiled by State Library of Queensland from British Home Office (HO) records which are available on microfilm as part of the Australian Joint Copying Pro |
| Original Source | Great Britain. Home Office |
| Compiled By | State Library of Queensland |
| Database Source | British convict transportation registers 1787-1867 database |
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Convict Notes
THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE OLD BAILEY VIOLETTA ADKINS. Theft; grand larceny (to 1827). 25th June 1788. 447. VIOLETTA ADKINS was indicted for stealing, on the 1st of June , a copper saucepan, value 10 s. four blankets, value 19 s. and divers other things, the property of Major Beale the younger, and one velveret waistcoat, value 5 s. the property of Major Beale the elder. The prisoner came to live servant with the prosecutor, and pawned the things which were produced by the pawnbroker, and deposed to by the prosecutor and witnesses. GUILTY . Transported for seven years . Tried by the second Middlesex Jury before Mr. Justice WILSON. 1788 - 28 July. - 15 December. Register; Newgate Prison. Listed on City of London Coroners: Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths No. 135 Newgate St. Sepulchre Inquisition taken the 17th day of March 1789 on Violetta Atkins who being a Prisoner in His Majesty's Gaol of Newgate died there a natural death London Information of Witnesses taken at the Parish of Saint Sepulchre in the ward of Farringdon without in London aforesaid on the 17th day of March 1789 on view of the ody of Violetta Atkins then and there lying dead. Elizabeth Davis a prisoner in his Majestys Gaol of Newgate who being on Oath saith that the Deceased has been in the Sick ward for these three months last past ill with a decline and continued on a gradual decay until Sunday last when she departed this life says she was regularly attended by the Apothecary of the Gaol and that she died a natural Death Sworn this 17th day of March 1789 before me} Elizabeth Davis