Phoebe Douglas

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Kathryn Woods on 27th June 2025

New South Wales, Australia, Registers of Convicts' Applications to Marry 1826-1851: 1839 30 Nov. Refusal Pemission to Marry Joseph Hart. Ship; Albion (1) Phoebe Douglas. Ship; Sovereign. Douglas on arrival stated she was married and had one child. Rev. Walpole, Bathurst

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C H on 17th February 2024

Old Bailey Online MARY ANN KING. PHOEBE DOUGLAS. ANN NORRIS. Theft; simple larceny (from 1827). 19th February 1829. Text type Trial account Defendants MARY ANN KING, PHOEBE DOUGLAS, ANN NORRIS Offences Theft > Simple larceny Session Date 19th February 1829 Reference Number t18290219-57 Verdicts Guilty, Guilty, Guilty Punishments Transportation 583. MARY ANN KING , PHOEBE DOUGLAS , and ANN NORRIS , were indicted for stealing, on the 9th of February , 30 yards of printed cotton, value 19s. , the goods of James Compigne . MARY COMPIGNE . I am the wife of James Compigne , a linen-draper , of Mile-end-road . About four o'clock on the 9th of February, King came and wished to look at some prints; I shewed her several - she said they were not genteel enough - I shewed her some others, and then she asked for some more; she offered me 1s. 4d. a yard for one which I asked 1s. 10d. for: after she had detained me about eight or ten minutes, the other two prisoners came in together, and wished to look at a print in the window, which was very difficult to get at; I asked them to take a seat, but King detained me so long that I went and gave them the gown-piece out of the window -I was there, perhaps, about three minutes; I then returned to King, and she said I knew her terms - I said I could not take it; she went out rather fast, and I went to the other two; they said the print I had shown them was not dark enough - Douglas said she was a poor servant, and had seven children, and hoped I would take as little as I could for two dresses - I offered to take off half-a-crown; she had a child which was very troublesome -Norris walked towards the door with it, and they went away; I then stood a bit, went into the parlour, and said I had lost something, I was sure I had, but I did not miss them till Brown, the officer, brought these prints the next day - they are the prints which I had shewn them; this is one which King said was not genteel enough - this one she said was only fit for children's frocks; this she did not like, and this was not enough to make a dress: the prisoners did not speak to each other to my knowledge, and none of them made any purchase.(Property produced and sworn to.) JOHN BROWN . I am an officer. On the 9th of February, I saw Douglas and Norris, about ten minutes before five o'clock, on the opposite side of the street, and King was on the same side as I was, with a bundle: I and Waters stopped her at the corner of Church-street, Bethnal-green, and took her into the Adam and Eve public-house - we found all these articles on her, which she said she had bought of a tallyman, who came to her house; I asked if she could tell where he lived, and she said No; we then searched her, and she had no money - we brought her out again, crossed over, and took the other prisoners, and took them all into another public-house; King then said, "Phoebe, have you been with me to-day?" Douglas said, "No, Nance, have you been with me to-day?" Norris said No; we took King, but let the other two go: but from further information we went again, and took them: last Saturday, as I was going up stairs at the office, I heard Douglas, whose voice I knew, call to a man in the lock-up place, and say, "George, it's all up," for the fatements were on them; he said, "Why did you not go in somewhere, and take them off?" she said, "We had not a bl-y farthing among us:" we took the prisoners about three-quarters of a mile from the prosecutor's. THOMAS WATERS . I was with Brown, and saw Douglas and Norris on the opposite side of the way; I called Brown's attention to them, and at that moment we saw King with the bundle; we took her into the house, and found these things; I then went out, and overtook the other two about one hundred yards off - we found nothing on them, and let them go; but on the Thursday morning we went and took them again - we asked them if they had been in any shop with King: they said No. KING'S Defence. I never was in the prosecutor's shop- I know nothing of these other women; the things were given me by a tallyman. DUGLAS'S Defence. I never saw this lady before I was at Worship-street: what the officers have stated is false- they knew me for some time. NORRIS' Defence. I was not on the same side of the way with King; the time I was first taken I had half a crown in my hand - I had been no higher than Bethnal-green school that day; I had not been in the road at all; on the Tuesday Waters met a lad in the Bethnal-green-road, he asked where I lived, and gave him brandy, and said if he told me of it he would police him. KING - GUILTY . Aged 22. DOUGLAS - GUILTY . Aged 29. NORRIS - GUILTY . Aged 26. Transported for Seven Years .

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Penny-Lyn Beale on 11th December 2021

1829 - New South Wales, Australia, Convict Applications for the Publication of Banns Application Date; 16 Dec 1829. Thomas Hazey. Age; 28. Ship; Mangles 1. Free. Sober ads Industrious ** Phoebe Douglas. Single crossed out and replaced with married. Age; 29 years. Ship; Sovereign. Sentence; 7 years. Bond. Active & honest. Noted beneath ** Married her husband George Laurence a convict at Bermuda 1832 - 20 Jul. Ticket of Leave 32/653. Allowed to remain in the District of Evan. 1839 - New South Wales, Australia, Registers of Convicts' Applications to Marry Joseph Hart. Bachelor. Age; 32. Ship; Albion. Sentence; Life. Ticket of Leave Phoebe Douglas. Widow. Age; 39 years. Ship; Sovereign. Sentence; 7 years. Free. Granted

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Penny-Lyn Beale on 23rd November 2020

New South Wales, Australia, Convict Indents, 1788-1842. Name; Phebe Douglas Ship; Sovereign. 3rd Aug 1829. Indent No; 59. Age; 29 Est birth Year; 1800 Read. Married - 1 child. Religion; Protestant Native Place; St Albans Calling; All work Offence; Shop Lifting Date of Trial: London, 19 Feb 1829. Sentence; 7 Height; 4 ft. 11 Complexion; Dark Ruddy Hair; Brown Eyes; Brown Assigned; Chas Nightingale. Remarks; Dropsical Noted against name; HUSBAND; George Lawrence a convict at Bermuda -------------------------