Summary
Personal Information
Voyage
Transportation
Mary Bracher was transported on the Sydney Cove, departing 31st Dec 1806 and arriving 18th Jun 1807 with 115 passengers.
Sydney Cove (generic)References
| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 87, Class and Piece Number HO11/1, Page Number 388 - permission to marry - Church Register: NSW Windsor St Matthew CE Marriage |
| 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
Mary died in 1834 and was buried in the churchyard at St. Matthew’s on 6 November 1834
After nearly five months in Fisherton Gaol the order came for Mary to be transported to Australia. She was allocated to a ship named ‘Sydney Cove’ which was waiting at Portsmouth
Mary was incarcerated in Fisherton Gaol in Salisbury, twenty-five miles from home. While her elder children were grown up or teenagers by this point the youngest two – William and James – were aged just nine and five. I can’t imagine what it must have been like for Mary to be separated from her husband and children in the knowledge she would never see them again. The gaol no longer exists as a building, but parts of its walls were incorporated into the base of a clocktower on Fisherton Street in Salisbury
Mary worked at Stourhead House as an under washer-woman, and her crime was not stealing whole items of linen but of cutting sections from them. They were even re-hemmed afterwards, although clearly not very well.
1806 April 15 committed to Fisherton Gaol by Rev T Grove of Mere, George Bracher and Mary his wife, Martha their daughter and Joseph Dommett their son in law, charged with stealing and cutting various table cloths and sheets, the property of Sir Richard Colt Hoare of Stourton House Bart, in width and length, and stealing the pieces cut from the same table cloths and sheets; and also with stealing a damask napkin the property of the said Sir R.C. Hoare Bart. It is presumed this species of depredation on Sir R.C.Hoare’s linen had been carried out for some time, and was at last accidentally discovered by Mrs Easton, Sir Richard’s housekeeper, from the rough manner in which one of the tablecloths in the servant’s hall had been hemmed after being cut. On this discovery a warrant was obtained to search the house of Bracher whose wife was an under washer woman to the laundress of the house linen, and in whose possession as well as in the box of Joseph Dommett, who resided in Bracher’s house, many of the pieces were found, and the damask napkin was found on Martha Bracher the daughter. They all stand committed to take their trial at the Assizes. Mary Bracher was sentenced to be transported for seven years. The others were acquitted.”
Thomas Porter, Residence: this parish Windsor NSW signed: Signed name; Mary Bracher, Residence: this parish Windsor; Signed X; Married: 12 Apr 1830 Registered at St Matthews Church of England, Windsor by Banns with consent of Governor; Joseph Docker, Witness: Margret Bond, Windsor; Signed name; Witness: Miles Lake, Residence: Windsor Signed name List all persons Church Register: NSW Windsor St Matthew CE Marriage About
homas Porter; Age: 43 years; Arrived per ship: Admiral Gambier (1); Trial Sentence: Life; Current Status: Ticket of Leave; Proposed wife: Mary Bracher; Age: 60 years; Arrived per ship Sydney Cove; Trial Sentence: 7 years; Current Status: Free; Application year: 1830; Clergyman: Docker; Event Place: Windsor - permission to marry
1822 Sep census 1822 Mary Bradshaw, Trial Sentence: 7 years; Arrived per ship Sydney Cove Current Status: Free by Servitude; Residence: Windsor [NSW AUS]; Original Remarks: Widow
census 1814 Oct Mary Bratcher, Arrived per ship Sydney Cove Current Status: Free; Employment: Householder; Mustered at, Residence: Windsor