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Personal Information
Crime
Voyage
Transportation
Sarah Barnes was transported on the Midas, departing 22nd Jul 1825 and arriving 17th Dec 1825 with 109 passengers.
Midas (generic)References
| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 88, Class and Piece Number HO11/5, Page Number 281 (142) |
| 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
Committed to our Gaol. —Sarah Barnes, (by the Rev. J. Gee Smyth) charged with having on Wednes- day night the 9th inst. stopped Mr. John Raynham on the King's highway, in the parish of Layham, and stolen from his person 1£. and upwards. Bury and Norwich Post, 23 March 1825. Sarah Barnes, aged 21, was convicted of having on the 9th of March, stopped Mr. John Raynham on the Kings, highway, in the parish of Layham, and feloniously taken from his person 1£. and upwards. ... Bury and Norwich Post, 6 April 1825. On Monday last Sarah Barnes, who was tried and convicted at the last Assizes of a highway robbery at Hadleigh, was removed from our Gaol to the female convict' ship Midas, now lying at Woolwich, bound for Botany Bay.— She is to be transported for life. Bury and Norwich Post, 29 June 1825.
NSW Convict Index. Sarah Barnes, per Midas 1825, Conditional Pardon, 1 Jan 1841, No 41/258. Wife of Henry Holmes per Marquis of Hastings, free by servitude.
Thomas Grimsey, aged 21, and John Mann, aged 27, were indicted for a highway robbery on the person of John Raynham, of Kersey. Sarah Barnes, one of the persons concerned in this offence, was convicted at the Lent Assizes, and sentenced to be transported for life. Bury and Norwich Post, 3 Aug 1825.
Conditional Pardon, Dated 1st January 1841. Sarah Barnes, Midas 1; Sydney Gazette, 30 Dec 1841.