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Transportation
Mary Cooper was transported on the Britannia Iii, departing 31st Dec 1797 and arriving 18th Jul 1798 with 102 passengers.
Third voyage to Australia. Arrived in Sydney Cove on 18 July 1798 1814 voyage departed from Bengal with 10 male convicts. All tried in India.
Britannia Iii (generic)References
| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 87, Class and Piece Number HO11/1, Page Number 241 (121) Portia Robinson 'Women of Botany Bay 1788-1827' Craig James Smee 'Births and Baptisms Marriages and Defacto Relationships Deaths and Burials New South Wales 1788-1830' |
| 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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"3rd great grandmother"
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Convict Notes
Family connections for Mary (Cooper) are: Updating my previous Contributions. COOPER Mary (Cooper alias Chapman) was born about 1745/52. She was tried for stealing printed calico at Surrey Assizes on 7 8 1797, sentenced to 14years & arrived in NSW as a convict on 19 7 1798 after a voyage of 6months on BRITANNIA. She commenced a relationship with William (Hutchinson) in Sydney, was sent to Norfolk Island, with him, on CHANCE & married him-his first marriage-on 21 6 1801 on Norfolk Island & produced 9children. She is recorded as sentence expired on stores on Norfolk Island in February 1805. She was Free by Servitude by 1811. She remained on Norfolk Island with her husband from 1813-14 for the clean-up after the final evacuation. She left Norfolk Island with her husband & family on 3 2 1814 on KANGAROO. She is recorded as dying on 25 9 1816 age64 & buried at St Davids CofE Hobart; although it is noted that she left the colony on 6 3 1819 on SHIPLEY to England. [Some details taken from this Website] William (Hutchinson) was born about 1776 & became a butcher. He was tried for breaking entering, w/1other on 4 4 1796, & stealing skins etc of William (Lovell) at Old Bailey on 22 6 1796, sentenced to 7years, held at Middlesex Gaol Delivery & arrived in NSW as a convict on 26 7 1799 after a voyage of 9months on HILSBOROUGH; the ship was riddled with typhoid & bad management. Has sent to Norfolk Island, with Mary (Cooper) on CHANCE. He was appointed overseer in 1803. He was recorded as stock keeper Free by Servitude on Norfolk Island in February 1805. He was Superintendent of convicts in 1809. He was Free by Servitude by 1811. He was Commandant on Norfolk Island from 1813-14 & in-charge of the clean-up party after the final evacuation. He left Norfolk Island with his wife & family on 3 2 1814 on KANGAROO. He became a significant business man in the colony, including the purchase, with his son in law William (Bowman) of Sutton Grange run in Victoria in 1938. Other achievements are referred to on his page of this Website. He was a wharfinger when he married secondly Jane (Longhurst her second marriage) emancipist on 21 6 1825 at St James CofE Sydney - presumably this was possible legally, although we are unsure what status Mary (Cooper) has become. He died on 26 7 1846 age70 father of 9children possibly & buried at St Phillips CofE Sydney-Sydney burial ground Elizabeth & Devonshire Sts 'The Sandhills'-with his father & joined by other members of the family-later relocated to Bunnerong in 1901. [Some details taken from 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'
Date of conviction was 7 August 1797
Mary was convicted of stealing 12 yards of printed calico worth 12s on 25 May 1797
Mary Cooper was living with William Hutchinson in Sydney. In May 1801 she arrived on Norfolk Island with William Hutchinson on the ‘Chance’. They were married on 26 June 1801. Mary’s status as convict remained in place until 30 January 1804 after which her status became free woman from sentence expired. She remained on Norfolk Island with Hutchinson until the final evacuation on the ‘Kangaroo’ in February 1814
UK Criminal Registers - Criminal Entry Records. No; 96 Trial; 7 August 1797 Age; 19 years old. [born abt. 1779]
Mary did indeed Mary William Huchinson (Convict, 'Hillsborough', 1799, whist they were on Norfolk Island. However, on 6th March, 1819 Mary abandoned the colony, William, and her 8 children and boarded 'Shipley' to return to England. This seems quite amazing since the youngest child, Richard, was not even 4 years old. William later married Jane Longhurst (Convict, 'Glatton', 1803). She was a widow having been married to William Roberts (Convict, 'Neptune', 1790) and having 7 young children of her own. William and Jane had no further children but can be located in Census records with their conjoined families.
References show Mary (alias Cooper) as being born about 1748 or 1752. Nothing so far acquaints me with the reason for the alias & there were several Mary (Cooper)s in the colony; however, this Mary is recorded as marrying convict William (Hutchinson) on Norfolk Island in 1801 & produced about 9children. William (Hutchinson) was born about 1776, became a butcher and was transported to NSW on HILLSBOROUGH in 1799 after trial in Surrey. Their children are recorded as Hannah b.1802 d.1806, Charlotte Selina b.&bap.1805 d.1834, Elizabeth b.1806 d.1849, William b.1808 d.1849, Mary b.1809 d.1849, Hannah b.1811 d.1841, Sarah b.1812 d.1890 all born on Norfolk Island: the last 5 were baptised at St Phillips Sydney in 1814; then Martha Ann b.bap.St Phillips Sydney 1815 d.1901. She died 1816 age64-68 St Davids Hobart-although another child Richard Thomas is recorded as b.bap.1817 St Phillips Sydney d.1849. The year 1849 seems not to have been a good one. William died in 1846 William (Hutchinson) has an entry on this Website.