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Crime
Transportation
Mary Cassidy was transported on the Kitty, departing 31st Dec 1791 and arriving 18th Nov 1792 with 32 passengers.
The 'Kitty' merchant built ship at Sunderland in 1787. In 1790 she carried slaves from the Gold Coast to Jamaica. Then in 1792 she transported convicts and goods from England to New South Wales, Australia. Voyage to Australia: After leaving England in March 1792 she sprung a leak and had to return to Spithead for repairs, departing again in April. 8 of the 10 male prisoners escaped. Only 30 female convicts, 3 died during the voyage. Carried supplies of stores and provisions for the Colony.
Kitty (generic)References
| Primary Source | NSW Convict Records. NSW Convict General Muster, 1822, HO 10/36. NSW BDM. |
Claims
"Mary Cassidy is my 5x great grandmother. Her daughter Ann married Thomas Rose jnr."
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Convict Notes
Family connections for Mary (Cassidy) are: CASSIDY Mary (Cassidy) was born about 1770/3. She was convicted, as a native of Dublin, at Dublin City, sentenced to 7years & arrived in NSW as a convict on 18 11 1792 after a voyage of 10months on KITTY. She entered a first relationship with William (Crew) & produced 2children (perhaps married in 1796-she is noted as having married William (Crew) about 1796 at Sydney, but Profesor Craig James (Smee)s records do not record this.>>> [Mary (Cassidy) has 2entries on this Website from which some information is taken] William (Crew probably Williams) was born in 1771 at Bristol Somerset. He was tried as William (Williams alias Crew) for highway robbery at probably Old Bailey, sentenced to Life, held at Middlesex Gaol Delivery & arrived in NSW as a convict on 9 7 1791 after a voyage of 6months on Fleet ship ALBERMARLE/ADMIRAL BARRINGTON. He was issued his Conditional Pardon on 12 12 1794 & granted 3,000acres (as was his partner in crime cousin John (Williams alias Miller) on the flats at upper Port Jackson (Concord). He was Free by Servitude by 1798. He died on 26 12 1797 age 26 at Concord & was buried at St Phillips CofE Sydney/Devonshire St cemetery. [Some of this information is taken from this Website: as is the revelation that the highway robber John (Williams) may not have been sent to Australia after all] .. >>>Mary (Cassidy) was Free by Servitude by 1798. On 5 4 1798 she married secondly John (Yeomans) emancipist at St Phillips CofE Sydney & produced 8children. She died on 15 12 1835 age65 mother of 10children. John (Yeomans) was born in 1767. He was tried w/2others for burglary at Warwickshire Assizes on 31 7 1790, sentenced to death reprieved to 7years & arrived in NSW as a convict on 9 7 1791 after a voyage of 6months on Fleet ship BRITANNIA. He seems to have adopted his wifes children. He was Free by Servitude by 1800. [Some details taken from this Website] Reference: Craig James Smee 'Births and Baptisms Marriages and Defacto Relationships Deaths and Burials New South Wales 1788-1830' ..a complete listing from church & other records in the early colony.
Trial Date: 1785 Native Place: Dublin married about 1796 to William Crew in Sydney. William died 1797 married John (James) Yeomans, 1798, St.Philips, NSW Death 13 February 1835, Wilberforce, NSW BDM 2320/1835 V18352320 19 AGE 62 Buried 15 February 1835 at St.Johns Church of England Cemetery, Wilberforce, NSW, Location:left section, row 9 plot 1