Mary Barnard

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Robin Sharkey on 10th September 2021

______________________________ 1814 REQUEST FOR FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE FROM BANK OF ENGLAND When she was put on board the ‘Northampton’ at Deptford, Mary wrote a letter to the Bank of England on 23 November seeking financial assistance. Three days later, the Bank paid her 5 pounds, the usual amount given to women guilty of offences in forging BoE notes. From the letter we learn: • Mary, now being on board the Northampton, would have learned of the bank’s usual small philanthropy from the other more worldly Newgate ‘forgery’ women on board • She'd been fifteen months kept in Hartford Gaol. • She really was in distress. Her first request for money had not been answered. Her hopes were small “a little tea for my sea store” • She gave receipt for the 5 pounds with her mark, so she couldn’t write. From Deidre Palk (ed) “Prisoner’s letters to the Bank of England” : 191. [F25/3/49] Mary Barnard, "Northampton transport ship, Deptford, 20 November 1814 "Honnored Sir I take this Liberty of Riting to you to Enform you of My Destressed Situation at present being Confined this 15 Months In Heartford Gail for the Bank Business and quite at this present time destitude of friends hopes that your honour Sir will have Compashon On Mee and Let mee have Some Relief as I am Now On bord of the Northamton Going to the Bay In the Greates Destres In this World I have Applyed to you before and there Is Some Unfortuneate Whomen as Receved Great favour from you and I hope to find the Same Sir for I am in very Great Destress Sir I have Not One Shiling to by mee A Littel tea for my Sea Store and I the prisoner Marey Bernerd Shall be Ever In Dutey Bound to pray for you Sir Annotated: £5 to be given to her, numbers and dates of notes to be paid, Mrs Barnard and her mark on 23 November 1814"

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Penny-Lyn Beale on 9th February 2021

List of Bond Female Patients remaining in the Lunatic Asylum at Tarban Creek on the 12 February 1846. No; 4 Name; Mary Barnett Age; 48 Ship; Northampton Date Admitted; 15 April 1827 Whence Admitted; Liverpool By whose authority; Unknown Remarks; Fatuity

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Robin Sharkey on 28th January 2016

INFORMATION ABOUT HER MARRIAGE, COLLECTED BY SHIP SURGEON: Attachment to Letter from Joseph Arnold, Surgeon of “Northampton", dated 19 June 1815, to Governor Macquarie Mary Barnard What is your age? 25, transported 14 yrs Have you your marriage certificate? Has them. signed by John Ashe (?), clerk Where were you married? Temple Church, Bristol What was the clergyman’s name? unknown What is your maiden name?’ Mary Hughes When were you married? 1812 What is your husband’s name? George Barnard What trade is he? Baker What age is he? 33 What ship was he transported in? 'Somersetshire' May 1814 Where was he convicted? Old Bailey For how long is he transported? 14 years ENGLISH CRIME: "Windsor and Eton Express. 27 Feb 1814 page 4: "[HERTFORD] SPRING ASSIZES Mary Barnard, charged with uttering forged notes, purporting to be Bank of England notes: transported for fourteen years."

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Robin Sharkey on 25th February 2015

As Mary BARNARD arrived on "Northampton" under sentence of 14 years handed down at Hertford, said to be aged 35 on departure in 1814. Musters and Settlers Lists: 1816, 1817 - servant to W Thompson, Hawkesbury 1817 -servant to John Hosely (?) 1818 - said to be in Newcastle -apparent error in clerks’ department 1820 - Twine Spinner 1821 - Twine Spinner 1822 - not listed either as Barnett or Barnard 16th April 1827 - Admitted to the Lunatic Asylum at Liverpool, as a prisoner of the Crown (per Tarban Creek 1844 List of Prisoner of the Crown who were admitted as patients and "are now considered harmless" 1828 “Mary Barnet” Northampton - age 35. Patient, Lunatic Asylum, Liverpool PROBABLY 1838 - transfer to Tarban Creek Lunatic Asylum when all LIverpool Asylum patients were moved to the new Tarban Creek Asylum, together with the insane from the Female Factory at Parramatta. 1844 -On Tarban Creek list (as "Barnett") as having been admitted as a prisoner but "are now considered harmless". Prob DEATH April 1860 - She is almost certainly the Mary Barnett who died in 1860 at Parramatta said to be “aged 84 years”. In fact she would be about 80 years based on earlier convict records. She was buried at All Saints’ Anglican Church, Parramatta (see Aust cem index) on 22 April 1860 and her name is now recorded there on the wall of all those buried there without a headstone.