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Voyage
Transportation
Julia Cane was transported on the Princess Charlotte, departing 27th Mar 1827 and arriving 6th Aug 1827 with 90 passengers.
Princess Charlotte (generic)References
| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 88, Class and Piece Number HO11/6, Page Number 135 (69) |
| 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, Tickets of Leave, 1810-1869 for Julia Cane Ticket of leave butts (NRS 12202) dated 8/9/1843 dated 43/2229. cancelled in 1849 as obtained a conditional pardon 49/1040
Old Bailey Online (DoB from here) 1807. JULIA CANE was indicted for stealing, on the 5th of October , 1 purse, value 4d.; 1 sovereign, and a 5l. Bank note, the property of Thomas Davies , from his person . THOMAS DAVIES. I am a mariner , and live in Great Sutton-street, Clerkenwell. On the 5th of October, a little after twelve o'clock at night, I was going from Fore-street; the prisoner accosted me in Bridgwater-square - I was perfectly sober - she said she was a widow, and told me a tale of distress; said she had been to seen a sick friend, and asked me for money; I said I had none, but through her importunity I took out some loose silver, and not having a 6d., I gave her 1s. - I then felt my purse safe in my pocket; nobody was near enough to take it but her. I walked to the top of Fann-street, and putting my hand into my pocket, missed the purse - she was gone then. I went to the watchman, told him, and described her as a woman dressed in black, without a bonnet; we traced her to Smithfield, and in consequence of information from a watchman there, we found her at two o'clock - I am certain of her person; she was taken to the watch-house and searched; I described the purse and money - the purse was found on her, with the 5l. note and 12s. remaining in it. Prisoner. Did I not meet you in Long-lane, when another young woman was talking to you? You insisted on my laying hold of your arm - you gave the purse into my hand, after we had been down a passage. Witness. It is all false; I made no proposal to her; I was not in Long-lane; I asked where her friend lived, and where she lived - she said, in Cow-lane. I was not out of the city while she was near me. WILLIAM GLOVER . I am a watchman. Davies came to me in West-street, about half-past twelve o'clock, and described a person to me; I afterwards found the prisoner, by his description, at supper in a lodging-house in West-street; she answered his description; he spoke positively to her, on seeing her - I took her to the watch-house; she was searched in a room upstairs, and a purse was afterwards produced which Davies claimed. JOHN IVERSON . I am constable of the night. I searched the prisoner, and found a purse coutaining a 5l. note and 12s. on her - Davies claimed the note and purse - the purse was in her month - I saw her take it from her bosom, and put it into her mouth; he described the name on the note.(Purse and note produced and sworn to.) Prisoner's Defence. I was unpinning my clothes, and had the purse in my hand - he thought it was in my mouth. He gave the note into my hand in a passage of a house; he asked my direction, which I told him, and in an hour and a half he came and asked if I was within - I said, "Yes, who wants me?" but if I had robbed him, I would have said nothing. GUILTY . Aged 24. Transported for Life .
NSW Govt. Gazette, 8 June 1836. Colonial Secretary's Office. Sydney, 7th June, 1836. TICKETS OF LEAVE CANCELLED. THE Tickets of Leave granted to the following Prisoners have been Cancelled for the reasons set against their respective names. Cain Julia, Princess Charlotte, drunkenness, and haying no visible means of obtaining an honest livelihood.