Summary
Personal Information
Crime
Voyage
Transportation
Jane Brown 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 352 |
| 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, 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 A most mutinous and insolent prostitute.
OLD BAILEY REPORT: 18th September 1817. report of trial immediately preceding jane Brown's was as follows: First Middlesex Jury before mr Justice Recorder: "846. GEORGE BLAKER was indicted for having in his custody and possession a forged Bank of England note, knowing it to be forged . The prisoner pleaded GUILTY . Transported for Fourteen Years." "847. JANE BROWN was indicted for the like offence . The prisoner pleaded GUILTY . Transported for Fourteen Years . First Middlesex Jury, before Mr. Recorder." Jane remained in gaol (probably Newgate) until women were taken out to be boarded on the "Friendship" sitting at Deptford. This process started in early June 1817 (see gentleman's letter dated 5 June 1817 to New Monthly Magazine Vol 7, 1817 pages 517-518) before ship's departure on 3 July 1817. What happened to Jane Brown on the voyage was detailed in a letter. John Gyles, missionary, letter to the Newgate Ladies Committee in London: "This unfortunate woman met an untimely death by the ill timed severity of the captain; she had a quarrel with anther convict woman, and was selected by the captain for punishment; the other was not punished. She told the captain and surgeon that if she was punished above, that she would throw herself into the sea. A wooden collar was put about her neck, which she wore the whole of that day; in the night, she got her collar off; the captain observed it the next day; after tearing her bonnet and shawl off, with many oaths said he would put another collar on; she repeated, that she would throw herself overboard if he did. He ordered the collar, and advanced towards her, when she threw herself overboard, and was drowned; this happened off the Cape of Good Hope. She was a decent well behaved young woman."
Drowned during voyage - off Cape Town - suicide.