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Transportation
Elizabeth Brodie was transported on the Friendship, departing 31st May 1817 and arriving 14th Jan 1818 with 102 passengers.
This convict ship, being 274 tons and 75 feet long was one of the light weight ships in the fllet and was skippered by Master Francis Walton. Built in Scarborough in 1784, she carried 76 male and 21 female convicts. During her return voyage to England her crew came down with scurvy and with insufficient crew to man her, she was scuttled in the straights of Macassar. The survivors were transferred to the Alexander.
FriendshipReferences
| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 88, Class and Piece Number HO11/2, Page Number 354 |
| 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
New South Wales, Australia, Convict Indents Name Elizabeth Brodie Age 23 Date of Conviction 26 Apr. 1817 1818 - 4 July 1818. Colonial Secretary's Papers Permission to Marry James Coddington, Free & Elizabeth Broady, ** Convict per Ship; Friendship 1832 - Certificate of Freedom. 30 Mar. 1832 Offence; Privately stealing
Scottish Indexes - High Court of Justiciary Trial Papers Trial papers of Elizabeth Brodie and Mary McNair, present prisoners in the tolbooth of Glasgow, for the crime of theft. Name Elizabeth Brodie Role Accused Designation prisoner in the tolbooth of Glasgow Crime Theft Trial Date 26 April 1817 Trial Location Glasgow Verdict Guilty Verdict Comments Guilty in terms of own confession Sentence Transportation for 14 years NRS Reference JC26/1817/123 Notes Pled guilty Mary McNair, prisoner in the tolbooth of Glasgow. Guilty on terms of own confession Sentence Imprisonment in the tolbooth of Glasgow for 12 months
appears on 1822 muster as Elizabeth Brody (Friendship) wife of J Coddington at Windsor and on 1823-25 muster as Elizabeth Brodie with same husband at Wilberforce
New South Wales, Australia, Colonial Secretary's Papers, 1788-1856 Main Series of Letters Received, 1788-1826 - names of convicts with their characters during the voyage from London to New South Wales on the transport ship Friendship. pp 6597 to 6605 Mutinous and a prostitute