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Transportation
Susannah Bray 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 21 (12) |
| 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 SUSANNAH BRAY. Theft; theft from a specified place. 22nd April 1789 Text type Trial account Defendants SUSANNAH BRAY Offences Theft > Theft from place Session Date 22nd April 1789 Reference Number t17890422-48 Verdicts Guilty Punishments Transportation 331. SUSANNAH BRAY, alias GAY , was indicted for stealing, on the 14th of April , a linen sheet, value 4 s. the property of John Raynes , in her lodging-room , &c. JOHN RAYNES sworn. I live in Blue-cross-street, Leicester-fields ; the prisoner lodged with me, on the 14th of April she came to me, and took a room under pretence that she was come out of the country; I let her a room for 5 s. a week; she staid the Tuesday night and the Wednesday night; I then missed my sheet; she was taken up, and the sheet that was missing was found wrapped round her; I delivered her the sheets myself when she came into the room. CHARES ELLIOTT sworn. I am an officer; I apprehended the prisoner on Thursday the 16th, I believe it was about four o'clock in the afternoon; I saw her near Litchfield-street office door; I searched her, and this sheet was pinned to her petticoats by her pocket-hole, in a long bundle, it came down to her heels almost. (The property deposed to.) PRISONER's DEFENCE. I had not the sheet when the officer took me. FOR THE PRISONER. ANN FIELD sworn. I keep a clothes shop; the prisoner has bought several things of me, and sold me several things; I always thought her very honest. GUILTY . Transported for seven years . Tried by the first Middlesex Jury before Mr. Baron HOTHAM .