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Margaret Desley was transported on the Princess Charlotte, departing 27th Mar 1827 and arriving 6th Aug 1827 with 90 passengers.
Princess Charlotte (generic)References
| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 88, Class and Piece Number HO11/6, Page Number 139 (71) |
| 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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National Records of Scotland: Precognition against Daniel Wheler, Daniel MacLaren, William Law, Margaret Desley, Ann Westwater for the crime of theft by housebreaking at Howard Place, near Edinburgh. Daniel Wheler, alias Lantwheler, Age: 15, tailor, Address: Castlehill [Castle Hill], Edinburgh (Guildford 1827) Daniel MacLaren, Age: 17, mason, Address: Canongate, Edinburgh (Manilus 1827) William Law, Age: 14, brass founder, Address: Campbell's Close, Cowgate, Edinburgh (Eliza 1828) Margaret Desley, alias Duggan, Age: 13, Address: Anderson's Close, West Bow, Edinburgh and Halkerston's Wynd, Edinburgh (on board Princess Charlotte) Ann Westwater, Age: 12, Address: No fixed abode, formerly Halkerston's Wynd, Edinburgh, Origin: Born in Canongate, Edinburgh.(Princess Charlotte).
https://www.oldscottish.com/convict-records-1.html Margaret DESLEY alias Duggan. Occupation Unstated; Anderson's Close, West Bow, Edinburgh and Halkerston's Wynd, Edinburgh. Tried: Edinburgh, 11 Dec 1826, Transportation – Life; Per Princess Charlotte, 27 March 1827, New South Wales. -------------------------------------------------------------- High Court of Justiciary. Daniel Lantwheler, Daniel McLaren, and William Law,  three boys, for housebreaking and theft, and. Margaret Deslie or Duggan, and Ann Westwater, two young girls, for reset of theft, were next placed at the bar. Lantwheler and Duggan were charged with being habit and repute thieves. All the prisoners pleaded Not Guilty. The crimes charged against the boys were committed in the house of Mr J. S. Mack, solicitor-at-law, in Howard Place, Warriston, by entering the bed-room window on the first floor, from  the top of the water-barrel in the back-yard, no less than thirty-four articles of wearing apparel were carried  off, as were a gold watch and appendages, which latter have not been recovered. Agnes and Janet Burnside, servants to Mr Mack proved the circumstances of the robbery, and identified . the various articles exhibited in Court. Mr Mack saw Lantwheler in the Police Office, who had on a shirt and a pair of trowsers, his property The prisoners were apprehended in the house of a woman named Martinshall, in Halkerston's Wynd, where the property was also found, who was severely reprimanded by the Court for suffering the two oldest boys and the girls to harbour in her house, where they cohabited in one room, for which they paid her 8s. per week. Thomas Maconochie and officers of the police proved the habit and repute against the prisoners Lantwheler and Duggan, which closed the case for the Crown. Mr Leslie Melville, who appeared for the prisoner Law,  called his mother, brother, and sister, and also a neighbour, in support of an alibi, who all swore that he was at home  the. whole of the night in question. The Lord Advocate addressed the Jury. for the Crown as did Mr Ferguson for Lantwheler, Mclaren, and the two girls, and. Mr L. Melville for Law. The Lord Justice Clerk closed his summing up of the evidence to the Jury at twenty-five minutes past ten, which at eleven o ' clock returned into Court with the following verdict :_—Unanimously find Lantwheler and M'Laren Guilty ; unanimously find the libel against Law, Not Proven ; and , by a plurality of voices. Duggan and Westwater Guilty art and part. Lantwheler and Duggan were sentenced to be transported for life, and Maclaren and and Westwater to be transported for 14 years Caledonian Mercury, 14 Dec 1826, and The Scotsman, 13 Dec 1826.
New South Wales, Australia, Convict Indents, 1788-1842 Princess Charlotte - 1827 Name; Margaret Desley or Duggan. 17 years [1810] No; Reads, Protestant. Single, Native County; Edinboro Trade; House maid Offence; House breaking Trial; Edinboro' - 11 Dec 1826 - Life. 2 previous convictions Height; 5 ft. 1 1/2 Complexion; Fair Freckled Hair; Auburn Eyes; Hazel Assigned; Wm Faithful, Richmond Date of Certificate; 41/1188 Additional Remarks; Died 2 Nov 1844 in Parramatta Hospital 47/3889 --------------------