Hannah Clarke

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Maureen Withey on 28th December 2021

Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 28 December 2021), April 1826, trial of HANNAH CLARKE (t18260406-27). HANNAH CLARKE, Theft > theft from a specified place, 6th April 1826. 603. HANNAH CLARKE was indicted for stealing, on the 17th of September , 1 damask table-cloth, value 5l., the goods of Robert Schooley , in his dwelling-house . ROBERT SCHOOLEY. I am a bookseller , and live at No. 46, Paternoster-row . The prisoner was my domestic servant for nearly three years. I lived a short way from town for a short time, for the benefit of my health, and she was left in charge of the town house. A table-cloth was stolen - I saw it since at Muncaster's, Skinner-street, in December. On the 7th of November I told her her mistress would sleep in town next night, and to prepare her room; and at half-past ten o'clock on the 8th of November, I went home with my wife, and my apprentice informed me the prisoner had left - she never returned; I did not see her again till Monday last, when a friend stopped her, and brought her to me; I gave charge of her. My name is on the cloth at full length - it was locked up; the drawer must have been opened by a false key; I had had it some years, but it was seldom used. I think I gave 10l. for it. WILLIAM WARRE . I am servant to Mr. Muncaster. - On the 17th of September I took a table-cloth in pawn of the prisoner, for 10s., in the name of Jones - I am certain of her - it is worth 30s.(Property produced and sworn to.) JAMES HART . I am porter to Mr. Schooley. In November I was ordered to take some shavings out of the fire place, and I found a purse there, with a duplicate of the table-cloth - it was given to the pawnbroker. WILLIAM WARRE. It is the duplicate I gave her. WILLIAM ELLIOT. I am a grocer, and am acquainted with Mr. Schooley. Last Monday I met the prisoner on Holborn-hill, and secured her. Prisoner's Defence. I missed some linen, and left the situation on that account. GUILTY. Aged 23. Of stealing to the value of 39s. only . ---------------------------------------------------- Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 28 December 2021), April 1826, trial of HANNAH CLARKE (t18260406-28). HANNAH CLARKE, Theft > stealing from master, 6th April 1826. 604. HANNAH CLARKE was again indicted for stealing, on the 19th of April , 1 tea-pot, value 15l.; 1 table-cloth, value 31s. 6d., and 3 sheets, value 30s., the goods of Robert Schooley , her master . MR. SCHOOLEY. We missed these articles the day after the prisoner left; the sheets were taken from every bed in the house. I lost 40l. worth of property; I never gave her authority to pawn any thing. HENRY VERE THREDDER . This tea-pot was pawned with me, in the name of "Mary Jones, for Mr. Schooley," for 6l. - it is worth 8l. - (looking at a duplicate) - this is what I gave the person, but I do not know who she was. JAMES HART . That duplicate was in the purse with the others. GUILTY. Aged 23. Transported for Fourteen Years .

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Penny-Lyn Beale on 15th December 2020

New South Wales, Australia, Convict Records, Convicts Deaths. Effects of Deceased Convicts, - 38/0634 Name; Hannah Clarke Ship. Grenada Amount; 2. £. 5 Shillings 4. Pence. Deposited in the Savings Bank of New South Wales Date of Death; 11 October 1826 ----------------------

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Maureen Withey on 23rd April 2019

There was a lot of sickness on this voyage and five women died on the journey, according to the Journal of the Ship’s surgeon, Alexander Nesbet. Folio 2: Anna Clarke, aged 24, Convict; sick or hurt, Diarrhoea; put on sick list, 16 September 1826; died 11 October 1826. National Archives, ADM 101/30/6/1