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Transportation
Mary Dawson 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 17 (10) |
| 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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Old Bailey Online MARY DAWSON. SARAH GRAHAM. Theft; grand larceny (to 1827). 23rd May 1787. Text type Trial account Defendants MARY DAWSON, SARAH GRAHAM Offences Theft > Grand larceny Session Date 23rd May 1787 Reference Number t17870523-56 Verdicts Guilty Punishments Transportation 505. MARY DAWSON, alias BRAY , and SARAH GRAHAM were indicted for stealing, on the 30th day of April last, one leather purse, value 1 d. one guinea, one half guinea, and one farthing , the property of Edward Holt . EDWARD HOLT sworn. On the 30th of April, I came from Hounslow to buy me some clothes, and coming along Fleet-market, a man recommended me to a bed in George-alley ; and Mary Dawson opened the door, and Sarah Graham lighted me to bed, and she said, if I would give her a shilling, I should have to do with her; and while we were upon the bed, I heard somebody coming up stairs, and she put her hand in my pocket and took my purse out and gave it to the other; Graham took it; they ran down stairs and I followed them; they were taken in George-alley in another house; I am sure these are the women; I was as sober, as I am now; I had been with nobody before, only drinking some beer with a shop-mate; they offered me my money. JAMES LOGGITT sworn. I took charge of the prisoners; they denied they had received any money but half a guinea; they said that he had no more. Prisoners. We are innocent. BOTH GUILTY . Transported for seven years . Tried by the first Middlesex Jury before Mr. RECORDER.