Summary
Personal Information
Crime
Voyage
Transportation
Sarah Bird was transported on the Grenada, departing 25th Sep 1824 and arriving 23rd Jan 1825 with 82 passengers.
Grenada (generic)References
| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 88, Class and Piece Number HO11/5, Page Number 181 (92) |
| 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
Sarah Bird, and Ann Harrison, (two notorious characters) charged with stealing a silver watch, with gold seals and watch key, snuff box, and other articles, from a person whom they had enticed into the house of the said Sarah Bird ... Cumberland Pacquet, 26 Jan 1824. -------------------------------------------------- [Our readers will recollect that Sarah Bird was found guilty, and Ann Harrison acquitted.] Tuesday. Sarah Bird was brought up receive sentence. The Judge told her that there was reason conclude that that she had long obtained living by the most abandoned and licentious courses, and was familiar with crime. I was therefore necessary to make an example of her, as he found she was perfectly incorrigible. The sentence of the Court was, Seven Years Transportation beyond the seas. Bird: My Lord. I wish to say a few words. The sentence passed upon me is hard, very hard indeed ; but I am quite satisfied it, my Lord, though it is not just. It is very bard that I should be transported for seven years while the woman who murdered her child should get for it so short imprisonment. But I do not care, my Lord. I am as tired of this country, the Country is of me, and the sooner I sent out of it the better. Here she went down, and as she descended the steps to return the gaol by the subterranean passage. the Court resounded with her voice — Oh! murder! murder! murder! Oh, murder! I am murdered by inches false arera ! Cumberland Pacquet, 15 Mar 1824. ------------------------------------------------- Convict Permissions to Marry.Disallowed. William McKenna, per Prince Regent (2), age 28, 7 years, Free, disallowed; and Sarah Bird, alias per Grenada (3), age 30, 7 years, bond. Date of Permission, 15 Feb 1828, Parramatta, Revd. Samuel Marsden. -------------------------------------------------- Convict Index. Sarah Bird, per Grenada 1825, Certificate of Freedom, 7 Mar 1831, 31/01236. Wife of Robert, (as stated on her CF.)
NSW 1828 census at Government Factory, Parramatta. Sarah Bird, age 30, arrived 1824, Grenada, sentence 7 years, protestant.