Matilda Dowd

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Penny-Lyn Beale on 20th August 2021

New South Wales and Tasmania, Australia Convict Musters. Year - 1825 Name; Matilda Dowd Age; - Class; Convict Ship; Mary Ann - 1822 - 7 years Remarks\Assigned; WIFE; of Jas Hearn,?? Bringelly

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Penny-Lyn Beale on 20th August 2021

1828 - Certificate of Freedom. 28/813 Date; 19 September 1828 Age; 32 [1796] Native Place; Glasgow. Ship; Mary Ann - 1823 Trade; Servant.

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Roger Churm on 10th April 2019

As per Old Bailey Records 1234 MATILDA DOWD was indicted,for that she,on the 19th of August,a certain.female child called Louisa Smith,daughter of Frederick William Smith, and the late Eliza his wife of the age of five years, maliciously and feloniously did decoy and entice away with intent to deprive the said Frederick William Smith of the possession of her,by concealing and detaining her from him. SECOND COUNT stating her intent to steal the articles of apparel and other things worn and about the person of the said child. FREDERICK WILLIAM SMITH. I live in Queen Street,Percival Street Clerkenwell, and have a daughter named Louisa she is five years old. On Sunday the 19th of August,about half-past seven o'clock in the evening,I was informed the child had been stolen, and was on its way to my house: I ran out and found the people in King Street bringing the prisoner back with it. I had been at the parlour window all the afternoon and saw the child at the door at six o'clock. ANN FOSKETT. I live next door to Mr Smith. On Sunday evening about half-past six or nearer seven o'clock I saw the prisoner at Smiths door, the child was in the parlour,she stood at the railing,and beckoned her through the parlour window,I went in doors returned in two minutes, and saw her take hold of the childs hand and walk down Queens Street with it. GEORGE HART, I am a blind painter,and live in Tottenham Court Road.On Sunday the 19th of August a little after seven o'clock.I was in Goswell Street about a quarter of a mile from Queen Street and saw the prisoner walking towards Old Street with this child in her arms she was going away from Queen Street, the child was repeatedly calling to be carried home and seemed uneasy I requested her to take her home she said she was going home I asked where she lived, she said in Holborn I then suspected that she did not the way.or that it was not her child, and asked whose child it was,she said it was her own. The child kept crying to be taken home, I asked if she knew the way she was going, and told her she was not going in a direction for Holborn, and asked her what part of Holborn she lived in, she said in Hatton Garden, I asked her what number, she could not answer. Then I told her the child was stolen and I would accompany her to the watch-house or workhouse. She remained where she was, a crowd collected around, and a little girl said she had seen the child in Queen Street, we took her back to Queen Street, and on the road she said she had just come from Chelsea. The child is now in court. Prisoner Q Did I say the child was mine A Yes Sir SAMUEL GRIBBLE, I am a constable. The prisoner was given in my charge, she said she did not mean to hurt the child. I asked her where she got it from, she said from the corner of Red Lion Street, that she lived in Eyre Street Hatton Garden, and left het husband at Chelsea with three children, Several people followed us, and there was a cry of "Rescue" several times. Prisoners Defence I met a man whom I had not seen for two or three years, he took me to Oxford Street, I met this child crying, and two or three people round it, it wanted to go home, I asked where it lived, lt could not tell.I took it down two or three streets to see if any one owned it. JUROR to SMITH Q Can the child talk and say where it lives A Yes Sir GUILTY aged 25 Transported for Seven Years First Middlesex Jury, before W. Arabin. Esq