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Voyage
Transportation
Mary Buxton 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
1812 - Stealing one linen sheet valued 10 pence - 14 March 1812 1815 - Yorkshire, England, Quarter Session Records * Mary Buxton was lately committed to the House of Correction kept for the said Riding charged with Vagrancy and being now brough before this court appears to be guilty * To pass Mary Buxton to Sheffield in the said Rising of the place of her last legal settlement - 2 Aug 1815. 1816 - Yorkshire, England, Quarter Session Records Mary Buxton, late of Wakefield in West Riding, county of York Single-woman Convicted of Vagrancy at a former session and recorded as incorrigible rogue and vagabond 1816 - Date of Conviction 23 Oct 1816 1822 - Convict Musters. Govt. Factory Parramatta 1825 - Convict Musters. F.S. Factory Parramatta Possible Burial Record - Find a Grave. Mary Buxton Birth; 1764 Death; 6 Aug 1836 (aged 71–72) Burial; Liverpool Pioneer Memorial Park Liverpool, Liverpool City, New South Wales, Australia Memorial ID; 274930946 · Profession: FREE, Place of Death: ASY, Address: ASYLUM LIVERPOOL
appears on 1828 census age 45 at the Factory Parramatta
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 An insolent inoffensive woman