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Transportation
Elizabeth Brown 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 18 |
| 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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Old Bailey Online ELIZABETH BROWN. Theft; grand larceny (to 1827). 24th October 1787. Text type Trial account Defendants ELIZABETH BROWN Offences Theft > Grand larceny Session Date 24th October 1787 Reference Number t17871024-53 Verdicts Guilty Punishments Transportation 864. ELIZABETH BROWN was indicted for stealing, on the 2d of June last, a scarlet cloth cloak, value 3 s. a printed cotton gown, value 10 s. a bonnet, value 12 d. one silk handkerchief, value 12 d. a shift, value 12 d. the property of Alice Martin . ALICE MARTIN sworn. I am a silk-winder , the prisoner was my weekly servant ; I found some part of my property in a pawnbroker's shop, where she gave me intelligence. DAVISON sworn. I am a pawnbroker; on the 4th of June this property was brought to me, but I cannot say it was the prisoner; I have no recollection of them, it is so long ago; it is a cloth red cloak, I advanced 3 s. upon it; it has been in my possession ever since. MARY GARDINER sworn. I work with the prosecutrix as well as the prisoner; I heard the prisoner confess she had pawned the things: my mistress made her no promises or threats; she said, Betty, where are my things; and she said, mistress, I will tell you where they are, and she told her of three different pawnbrokers, where they were pawned. Prosecutrix. She said, if you do not hurt me, I will tell you where they are; I said, I do not want to hurt you, produce my property; she said, she had pawned them at three different places. PRISONER's DEFENCE. She told me, if I would tell her where the things were, she would not hurt a hair of my head. Court to prosecutrix. Did you tell her so? - No such word was mentioned. Jury. When did she confess it? - The 6th of October when I found her; I did not know where she was. GUILTY . Transported for seven years . Tried by the first Middlesex Jury before Mr. Justice HEATH.