Mary Bleeze

Mary Bleeze, one of 89 convicts transported on the Earl of Liverpool, December 1830

Name, Aliases & Gender

Name:	Mary Bleeze
Aliases:	Walker (alias), Bleese
Gender:	f

Birth, Occupation & Death

Date of Birth:	1805
Occupation:	House servant
Date of Death:	-
Age:	-

Life Span

Female median life span was 59 years*

* Median life span based on contributions

Conviction & Transportation

Sentence Severity

Sentenced to 7 years

Crime:	Stealing
Convicted at:	Nottingham (Town) Quarter Session
Sentence term:	7 years
Ship:	America
Departure date:	30th December, 1830
Arrival date:	9th May, 1831
Place of arrival	Van Diemen's Land
Passenger manifest	Travelled with 181 other convicts

References

Primary source:	Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 89, Class and Piece Number HO11/7, Page Number 539 (272). Tasmanian Archives - convict records.
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 Project.

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Nell Murphy on 28th March, 2017 wrote:

Mary BLEEZE (nee Walker) was convicted at Nottingham, England on 14 July 1830 for stealing clothes. Previous offence fro receiving stolen property. 7yr transportation sentence. Sent to Van Diemen’s Land (Tasmania) per the ship ‘America’ arriving 9 May 1831.

Married woman - husband Charles Bleeze, a traveller for Mr. Dakin of Warrington.
Child - Charles Bleeze, aged abt 3yrs - accompanied his mother on the voyage.
Aged 25yrs; can read & write; house servant; Protestant.

VDL:
Child, Charles admitted to Queens Orphanage, New Town, Hobart on 21 May 1833, aged 5yrs (a requirement by the Govt of the day). Returned to his mother’s care 28 Dec 1841 (now settled and remarried, in Tasmania). (ref. SWD24/28)
Charles grew up, became a farmer, married and had a family.

Application for permission to remarry:
18 Nov 1835 - to Thomas COWAN (listed as “Free” which may mean free settler or free by servitude). (ref. 52/1/1 no. 24)(note: remarriages were permitted, even encouraged, as persons transported vary rarely could return to Britain.)

Marriage:
2 Feb 1836 - Mary Blease, convict, per ‘America’, spinster to Thomas Cowan, bachelor. St. David’s, Hobart. (ref. 36/1/3 no. 3135)

Nell Murphy on 28th March, 2017 wrote:

n.b. Mary Bleeze/Bleese, nee Walker does not appear to have sailed on the Liverpool but the ‘America’ to VDL.

Maureen Withey on 20th April, 2020 wrote:

Hobart Town Courier, 7 July 1837,
The period for which the undermentioned persons were transported, expiring at the date placed after their respective names, certificates of their freedom may be obtained then, or at any subsequent period, upon application at the Muster Master’s Office, Hobart town, or at that of a Police Magistrate in the interior :
Mary Bleeze, alias Walker 14th July 1837, America;

Convict Changes History

Nell Murphy on 28th March, 2017 made the following changes:

voyage, source: Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 89, Class and Piece Number HO11/7, Page Number 539 (272). Tasmanian Archives - convict records. (prev. Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 89, Class and Piece Number HO11/7, Pag

Nell Murphy on 28th March, 2017 made the following changes:

alias2: Bleese