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Transportation
Sarah Dring 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 | http://members.iinet.net.au/~perthdps/convicts/confem4.html Burial Transcripts of Old Sydney Burial Ground |
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Convict Notes
National Archives. HO 47/6/91 1787 Mar 31 Certificate/memorial of John Heath on prisoners capitally convicted on the 'last' Midland Circuit (exceptions listed), but 'some favourable Circumstances' appeared on/after their trial and now recommended to mercy on the conditions set against their names: Warwickshire Lent Assizes at Warwick. Sarah Dring, for a robbery from a dwelling house; Recommendation: 7 years transportation.
Sarah Dring was convicted at Warwick for robbery in a dwelling house, originally sentence to death but commuted to 7 years transportation. She married James Saxelbye (Scarborough) in Mar 1790 at the Church of England NSW. She died 18 Mar 1793 and is buried at the Old Sydney Burial Ground