Name: | Mary Cully |
Aliases: | none |
Gender: | f |
Date of Birth: | 1811 |
Occupation: | Housemaid |
Date of Death: | - |
Age: | - |
Life Span
Female median life span was 59 years*
* Median life span based on contributions
Sentence Severity
Sentenced to 14 years
Crime: | Stealing |
Convicted at: | Bristol (City) Session of Peace Oyer Terminer and Gaol Delivery |
Sentence term: | 14 years |
Ship: | America |
Departure date: | 30th December, 1830 |
Arrival date: | 9th May, 1831 |
Place of arrival | Van Diemen's Land |
Passenger manifest | Travelled with 181 other convicts |
Primary source: | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 89, Class and Piece Number HO11/7, Page Number 545 (275). Tasmanian Archives. |
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 Project. |
Nell Murphy on 25th May, 2016 wrote:
Mary Cully was convicted at Bristol City for stealing from her employer - money. 14 yr sentence. Transported to Van Diemen’s Land (Tasmania) on the ship ‘America’ arriving May 1831.
Single woman; aged 20 yrs; housemaid.
Native place - Tipperary, Ireland.
Assignments of service in Colony.
Appears to have been assigned to Mr. John Griffiths who later became her husband.
Several notes of misconduct & time at the Female House of Correction, Launceston.
Ticket of Leave 22 Dec 1842.
Conditional Pardon no. 413 in 1844.
Nell Murphy on 25th May, 2016 made the following changes:
source: Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 89, Class and Piece Number HO11/7, Page Number 545 (275). Tasmanian Archives. (prev. Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 89, Class and Piece Number HO11/7, Page Number 545 (275)), date
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