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Catherine Clark 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.
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Family connections for Catherine (Clark) are: CLARK/E Catherine (Clark) was born about 1770. She was tried for stealing muslin at Kent Assizes, sentenced to 7years & arrived in NSW as a convict on 3 6 1790 after a voyage of 12months on Fleet ship LADY JULIANA-a ship with 228females who easily entertained the whole crew & also sailors at Teneriffe stopover. She arrived on Norfolk Island on 7 8 1790. She had a relationship with Richard (Morgan his second relationship) & produced 8children. She was Free by Servitude by 1799. She is shown by Smee as again a convict in 1804. [Noted a Catherine (Clark) is recorded as sentence expired on stores on Norfolk Island in February 1805] She moved to Van Diemens Land (Tasmania) with her family on 6 10 1806 on SURPRISE; settled on grant at Kangaroo Point. She died on 27 7 1828 age58. [Some details taken from this Website] Richard (Morgan) was born about 1761 & became a farmer. He was tried for stealing from a dwelling house & assaulting John Trevillian Ceely (Trevillian) at Gloucester in 1788, sentenced to 7years in Africa. He arrived in NSW as a convict on 26 12 1788 after a voyage of 12months on First Fleet ship ALEXANDER. He married firstly Elizabeth (Lock her first marriage) on 30 3 1788 at St Phillips CofE Sydney. He arrived on Norfolk Island on 17 3 1790 >He was recorded as being a farmer before 1794. He was Free by Servitude by 1796 & had 10acres (plot no.80 on soutwest of the island) on Norfolk Island in 1796. He was recorded as settler from convict overseer of sawyers Free by Servitude on Norfolk Island in February 1805 & was quite successful supplying the government. He moved to Van Diemens Land (Tasmania) with his family on 6 10 1806 as part of the first evacuation (for which volunteers apparantly had been called with appropriate compensation offerred & for which he may have tried to decline as some successful farmers were asked to stay) on SURPRISE; settled on grant at Kangaroo Point. He was recorded as off stores in Hobart Town on 2 10 1818. He produced perhaps 9children in his lifetime. [Some details found on this Website] REFERENCES 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. Irene Schaffer & Thelma McKay 'Exiled Three Times Over! Profiles of Norfolk Islanders Exiled in Van Diemens Land 1807-1813' James Hugh Donohoe 'Norfolk Island 1788-1813-The People and Their Families' Reg Wright 'Forgotten Generation of Norfolk Island & Van Diemens Land'
Catherine Clarke was convicted at Kent in 1789, aged 18, for stealing ten yards of muslin. She was sent to Norfolk Island where she cohabited with Richard Morgan, who arrived as a convict on the Alexander. They were quite successfull farming and supplied a lot of produce on Norfolk to the government. The were transfered to Van Diemans Land on the Surprise on 6 Oct 1806 where they took up a land grant at Kangaroo Point. Catherine's and Richard's life are the bases for Colleen McCulloch's novel "Morgans Run"