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Transportation
Mary Bateman 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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Mary Bateman and Elizabeth Durand were teenage prostitutes. They met a tipsey biscuit maker's servant, James Palmer at Wellclose Square, London on the evening of the 19th April and had a drink of ale with him before taking him back to their lodgings at Long Alley off Cable Street in the East End. Mr Palmer admitted at the trial that he had been so drunk that he did not exactly remember what had happened or when he left the house. He later missed his watch, valued at 3 Pounds, and a constable was sent to the house the next morning. The timepeice was found hidden in the bed of the landlady Elizabeth 'Bet' Sully. On May 7, 1788, fifteen year old Mary Bateman was tried at the Old Bailey for the theft of a silver watch from James Palmer and Elizabeth Sully was tried for receiving the watch as stolen goods at her lodgings at 45 Cable Street, East London. Elizabeth Durand gave evidence against Mary Bateman in return for ammuity from prosecution. She said they had 'decoyed' the man to Sully's residence which was a house of ill fame. Mary Butler and Mary Randall had been sentenced to transportation previously for an offence committed in similar circumstances at Bet Sully's place. The watch stolen by Mary Bateman was deliberately undervalued at 39 shillings by the court to avoid the imposition of a death sentence. At the time of commital Mary Bateman had signed a statement marked with an X denying her guilt. She was sentenced to seven years transportation to New South Wales, and sent from Newgate gaol to the 'Lady Juliana' which formed part of the Second Fleet, arriving in Sydney 3 June 1790, and then travelled on the 'Surprise' to Norfolk Island, arriving 7 August, 1790.
On 5 November 1790 George Guest and Mary Bateman were married by the Rev. Richard Johnson when he visited the Island briefly. No records of the individual ceremonies have survived. George Guest wrote in 1810 that Mary had been deprived of her reason by their difficulties and he had to employ two men to restrain her. She was mustered at Sydney in 1814 and later confined to the Lunatic Asylum in Liverpool, NSW, where she died aged 56 years on the 2 April, 1829
Mary's trial was at the Old Bailey London, this can be viewed online http://www.oldbaileyonline.org
Mary was sent to Norfolk Island shortly after arriving on the Lady Juliana into Sydney. She met and married George Guest a 1st Fleet convict. She had 5 children one of whom (Mary) died on Norfolk Island. Sarah 1792-1868 George 1794-1845 John 1799-1863 Mary 1803-1804 William 1804-1835
Mary Bateman, born 1773; died 1829 in Liverpool, NSW, Australia (Insane Asylum); buried in St Lukes, Liverpool. She was 15 when convicted at the Old Bailey for stealing a watch. http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/browse.jsp?id=t17880507-37-defend304&div=t17880507-37#highlight Mary married George Guest/Gess in 1790 on Norfolk Island