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Transportation
Mary Beach 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 18 |
| 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
Old Bailey Online MARY BEACH. Theft; burglary. 12th December 1787. Text type Trial account Defendants MARY BEACH Offences Theft > Burglary Session Date 12th December 1787 Reference Number t17871212-49 Verdicts Guilty > Theft under 40s Punishments Transportation 53. MARY BEACH was indicted for burglariously and feloniously breaking and entering the dwelling house of Philip Clarke , about the hour of three in the night, on the 5th of December , and burglariously stealing therein, one silver watch, value 40 s. one steel chain, value 6 d. one seal, value 6 d. one key, value 1 d. his property. A second Count, for that she being in the said dwelling house, and stealing the same goods, the same dwelling house burglariously did break, to get out of the same. The prosecutor deposed that he was a weekly porter , and had a small house in the City-road ; that he was gone to bed, having nobody living with him in the house; and that between one and two an acquaintance of his named William Smith , with the prisoner, knocked at his door, requesting admission; he got up and let them in, fastened his door, and went to bed; they came to bed to him, and he fell asleep; when he awoke between four and five in the morning, the prisoner was gone with his watch and handkerchief; the prisoner was taken on the Saturday following, by John Taylor , a constable, at Mr. Lane's, a pawnbroker offering the watch to pledge. GUILTY, 39 s. Not of the burglary . Transported for seven years . Tried by the first Middlesex Jury before Mr. ROSE.