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Transportation
Esther Clark was transported on the Brothers, departing 20th Nov 1823 and arriving 5th Apr 1824 with 91 passengers.
Brothers (generic)References
| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 88, Class and Piece Number HO11/5, Page Number 109 (56); Proceedings of the Old Bailey 9th April 1823, re Esther Clark. "Memoir of the Life of Elizabeth Fry - with extracts from her Journal and Letters" Edited by Two of her Daughters. Volume I, London 1847 p.445. |
| 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, Convict Indents. Brothers - 1824 Indent No; 15 Name; Ester Clarke Trade or calling; Mantra Maker and Milliner Trial where & Date; Newgate - April 1823 Sentence; 7 years Age; Year of birth; 1790 Native Place; Limerick Height; 5 ft. 0 Eyes; Dark Brown Hair; Dark Brown Completion; Brown Remarks [Behaviour on board ship] Excellent Additional remarks noted against name; Husband a carpenter in Shropeshire ----------------
Esther Clark was found guilty at a trial at the Old Bailey on 9th April 1823, for stealing. She was transported for 7 years on the Brothers. OLD BAILEY Proceedings: "ESTHER CLARK was indicted for stealing, on the 11th of April , twenty-four yards of printed cotton, value 44 s., the goods of John Bickers and Robert Nash , privately in their shop. " ROBERT NASH . I live at Aldgate . On the 24th of March, about half-past four o'clock, the prisoner came to the shop; a young man attended to her who is not here, I stood at the door for two minutes, and on returning into the shop saw a piece of print in her apron; she was looking at calico. I charged her with stealing it, and took it from her. She wanted me to let her go. JOHN LAMB. I saw Mr. Nash (my master) take the print out of her apron. She asked him to let her go. [Property produced and sworn to] GUILTY, aged 32, of Stealing, but not privately. TRANSPORTED for seven years. From "Memoir of the Life of Elizabeth Fry - with extracts from her Journal and Letters" Edited by Two of her Daughters. Volume I, London 1847 at p.445 " .. a simple tribute of affectionate remembrance from a convict who was transported in 1823 on the Brothers, should b recorded in referring to that ship, a calabash from the garden of Hester ____ . The present referred to has reached Mrs Fry's family, it was accompanied by a message of gratitude. The donor recalled herself to their memory as having been school-mistress in Newgate and that, when she left the prison, Mrs Fry had given her a pound of lump sugar, and half a pound of tea. Hester__ has been married twenty years in NSW, and is very comfortably established, and wished her former benefactress to be informed that she has "plenty of pigs and fowls; buys her tea by the chest; and that the patchwork quit which now covers her bed, was made of the pieces given her by the ladies when she embarked." "The women on board the Brothers seem to have been orderly and well conducted. The Surgeon who directed their passage afterward wrote as follows: "Port Jackson, May 1824 "How steady is the pace of those who have forsaken the evil of their ways; such are the females (at least a great number) who have been under moral discipline in Newgate. I have every reason to be pleased with their exemplary conduct; they submit to restraint and conform themselves to discipline."