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Transportation
Esther Curtis was transported on the Lady Juliana, departing 31st May 1789 and arriving 3rd Jun 1790 with 247 passengers.
Launched 1777, 401 ton barque, built at Whitby, England. Departed Portsmouth, England on 29 July 1789, via Cape of Good Hope for Port Jackson, New South Wales, Australia on 3 June 1790. 1790 voyage carried 226 female passengers (convicts)- 5 of whom died on the trip. 6 children also on board. Significant because it was the first ship to bring all female women to the Colony.
Lady JulianaReferences
| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 87, Class and Piece Number HO11/1, Page Number 20 |
| 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
Old Bailey Online ESTHER CURTIS. Theft; grand larceny (to 1827). 10th December 1788. Text type Trial account Defendants ESTHER CURTIS Offences Theft > Grand larceny Session Date 10th December 1788 Reference Number t17881210-74 Verdicts Guilty Punishments Transportation 74. ESTHER CURTIS was indicted for stealing, on the 20th of August last, a satin waistcoat, value 12 d. a pair of nankeen breeches, value 12 d. a pair of corduroy ditto, value 18 d. a pair of cotton stockings, value 12 d. a velveret waistcoat, value 12 s. a linen waistcoat, value 6 d. a pair of cloth breeches, value 12 d. another pair of ditto, value 6 d. a cloth waistcoat, value 2 s. and one shirt, value 2 s. the property of Charles Marsh : CHARLES MARSH sworn. On the 20th of August, I got up in the morning about a quarter before five, and went into the yard; I heard a woman's voice in the necessary, and the prisoner came out; she said she was in liquor, and had slipped in the night before, and fell asleep on the stairs; Mr. Blair, who lives in the same house, came out; we questioned her, and let her go; when I came up stairs, I missed the things in the indictment; on the 21st of last month, I found the same person at my door, without her shoes; I took her into custody; she enquired then for a strange name; I knew her immediately, and sent for Mr. Blair, who knew her also; I never found any of my other things again, but those that were taken out of the necessary. JAMES BLAIR sworn. Deposed to the same effect, and added, that he heard a foot go softly up stairs, and come down again harder, on the night before the 19th of August, when she was found in the morning in the necessary. PRISONER's DEFENCE. I was going through Cranbourn-alley, and I met a man; he gave me a crown, and told me to go to his lodging, at the prosecutor's house, and to open the door softly because his landlady was ill; at the door he told me to take off my shoes while he went to get a bit of candle; and they came and took me. GUILTY . Transported for seven years . Tried by the first Middlesex Jury before Mr. Justice WILSON.