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Transportation
Margaret Carter 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 21 (12) |
| 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 MARGARET CARTER. Theft; shoplifting. 22nd April 1789. Text type Trial account Defendants MARGARET CARTER Offences Theft > Shoplifting Session Date 22nd April 1789 Reference Number t17890422-70 Verdicts Guilty > Lesser offence Punishments Transportation 355. MARGARET CARTER was indicted for stealing, on the 9th of March , one pair of cotton stockings, value 2 s. and one pair of silk stockings, value 8 s. the property of William Somerset , privately in his shop . WILLIAM SOMERSET sworn. I live in Newport street, Leicester-fields , I am a linen-draper and hosier ; my house was broke open, on Monday the 9th of March, between three and four in the afternoon, I was in the shop, and saw the prisoner and another woman walk past the shop several times; I lifted up a shawl, which hung on a rail before the window, and saw the prisoner and another woman at the window, the window was not open; I heard a noise, and looked and missed two pair of stockings immediately; I believe the glass was cracked before they pushed the piece out; I am sure the piece was not taken out before; I saw the piece in the sash not ten minutes before; I followed them, and overtook them in Gerrard street, Soho; I asked the prisoner to go back with me, for I thought she had stole some stockings out of my window, she said she would, she went back; I immediately sent for a constable, and searched her, we found one pair of stockings upon her. Was the prisoner out of your sight? - Yes, but I took particular notice of her, as I saw her walk past several times, I can swear she is the same. CHARLES YOUNG sworn. I was sent for to take the prisoner into custody, and in searching her I found these tied stockings underneath her apron, she did not say how she came by them; they have been in my possession ever since. (Deposed to by the prosecutor by the private mark.) PRISONER's DEFENCE. I have nothing to say. GUILTY, Of stealing, but not of the burglary . Transported for seven years . Tried by the second Middlesex Jury before Mr. Baron HOTHAM .
Margaret Carter was tried 3 times for theft http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/browse.jsp?id=t17830910-61-defend748&div=t17830910-61#highlight http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/browse.jsp?id=t17880402-34-defend373&div=t17880402-34#highlight The third time she was sentenced to 7 years transportation. http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/browse.jsp?id=t17890422-70-defend646&div=t17890422-70#highlight Margaret died in 1796 on Norfolk Island.