Summary
Personal Information
Crime
Transportation
Mary Ann Drake was transported on the Canada, departing 28th Feb 1810 and arriving 8th Sep 1810 with 122 passengers.
Canada (generic)References
| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 87, Class and Piece Number HO11/2, Page Number 10 Craig James Smee 'Births and Baptisms Marriages and Defacto Relationships Deaths and Burials New South Wales 1788-1830' |
| 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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"Mary Ann Drake was my great great great great grandmother"
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Convict Notes
NSW Convict Index. Mary Ann Drake, per Canada 1810, Ticket of Leave, No 11/197. Tried Suffolk.
Mary Bloomfield, of Great Bealings, and Mary Ann Drake, of Parham, Hacheston, servants to Mrs. Short, of Boulge-hall, have been committed to Woodbridge Bridewell by Wm. Carlhew, Esq. for stealing several yards of new bed furniture and some articles of wearing apparel, the property of their said mistress and for having in their possession keys to open the drawers, &c. in Mrs. Short's house. Ipswich Journal, 3 June 1809. Mary Blomfield, pleading guilty to an indictment for indictment for stealing sundry articles the property of Mrs. Short, of Boulge-hall, was sentenced to be imprisoned 3 months. Mary- Anne Drake, also charged with stealing sundry articles from the said Mrs. Short, was sentenced to be transported for 7 years. Ipswich Journal, 19 July 1809. Tuesday, Harriet Tyler and Mary Ann Drake, were conveyed from the County gaol in this town to Woolwich, where they were put the Canada convict ship. to be transported for 7 years. Ipswich Journal, 24 Feb 1810.
Mary Ann's marriage & children with husband James (Taylor) are mentioned in his entry on this Website. Her marriage & children with husband John (Green) are mentioned in his entry on this Website.
Mary Ann Drake married a fellow convict, James Taylor,(an original convict to Van Diemens Land on the Calcutta in 1803)in Sydney on 9 Apl, 1811. Vol 5. St Philips Sydney, BDM 1809-1811. She had been granted her TOL on 1 Feb, 1811. Known children, James abt 1811, George abt 1813, John abt 1814 and William 18 Oct 1818. (Approx ages for James, George and John found in the Male Orphans Home records. James Taylor died 13 Sept 1820 and the 3 boys mentioned above admitted to the Male Orphans Home. Mary Ann (Drake) Taylor married yet another convict, John Green (arrived on the Hebe), 24 June, 1822. An article in The Sydney Herald (NSW:1831-1842)Thursday 12 Jan, 1837 p2, under the heading of Coroner's Inquest, indicates Mary Ann Green had died in her Kent Street home "caused by suffocation brought on by excessive use of spirits and liquor". An entry for her first husband, James Taylor, can be found in the book "Convicts Unbound -"The Story of the Calcutta Convicts and their Settlement in Australia" by Marjorie Tipping.
The Sydney Gazette and NSW Advertiser, 12 Jan 1837
Mary Ann Drake married James Taylor in St Phillip's Church Sydney, 9th April 1811.Info sighted at State Records Office, The Rocks, Sydney.Vol 5,St Phillip's Sydney, B.M.D. 1809-1811.Her first husband, James Taylor, died 13 September 1820 and interred on the 15th.Info again found in St. Phillip's records, 1819-1825 Vol 8. The Isabella noted elsewhere is not the daughter of James and Mary Ann.The handwritten church record of Bathurst has been sighted at the State Records Office, The Rocks, and the surname of the Mary is definitely not Drake!
Mary Ann Drake married James W. Taylor in Sydney 1811. They had 5 children - James, George, John, William, Isabella. After James died widow Mary Ann Taylor (36yrs) married John Green (22yrs)in 1822. While there were no children in that marriage, Mary Ann Green's children lived with them in her Kent St, Sydney residence where she died aged 50yrs in 1837. John Green died 1839.