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Voyage
Transportation
Norah Cobbett was transported on the Persian, departing 10th Apr 1827 and arriving 5th Aug 1827 with 60 passengers.
Persian (generic)References
| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 88, Class and Piece Number HO11/6, Page Number 146 Don Bradmore author: https://www.femaleconvicts.org.au/67-recent-additions-to-convict-stories/387-cobbett-norah-per-persian-1827 |
| 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
Daughter of Patrick Cobbett (or Corbett) and wife Catherine nee Fitzgerald, was born at Cork, County Cork, Ireland, in 1805. While living in England she was convicted of the crime of stealing a shawl and nineteen shillings and sixpence from a Martha Smith. Norah was unmarried and seventeen when she gave birth to a daughter who was left in the care of another family when she was transported to VDL. Found guilty at the Surrey Quarter Sessions on 23rd October 1826, A report of the trial in the Morning Post of 26 October revealed that the court had been told that Norah was ‘one of the greatest thieves in the Borough’. In passing sentence, the judge had remarked that ‘her infamous conduct had shown her to be too bad a character to remain in this country’ and that she should be transported ‘beyond the seas’ for the term of her life. After the trial, she was taken to Milbank Prison, London, to await transportation to VDL, her behaviour there was described as ‘bad’.
Wife of famous Danish-born adventure and convict, Jorgen Jorgenson. Corbett was arrested as part of a sheep-stealing gang lead by William Sheldon in the late 1820s, and turned crown witness. In the process, she met Jorgenson, who was at the time working for the police in investigating Sheldon's gang. Corbett and Jorgenson married a few years later, but their life together was marred by alcohol abuse, with Norah dying at the age of 40. She (along with Jorgenson) is immortalised as one of the faces on the stone bridge at Ross.