Summary
Personal Information
Crime
Voyage
Transportation
Mary Ann Edwards was transported on the Brothers, departing 20th Nov 1823 and arriving 5th Apr 1824 with 91 passengers.
Brothers (generic)References
| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 88, Class and Piece Number HO11/5, Page Number 107 (55) |
| 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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Convict Notes
Tasmanian Muster Roll. https://libraries.tas.gov.au/Digital/CON13-1-3/CON13-1-3/CON13-1-3P37 Mary Ann Edwards, tried at Hertford (St Alban Boro) Quarter Sessions and Gaol Delivery, 18 July 1823, 7 years. Tasmanian Conduct Record. https://libraries.tas.gov.au/Digital/CON40-1-3/CON40-1-3/CON40-1-3P118 No 16. Mary Ann Edwards, per Brothers, Tried St Albans, 16 July 1823, 7 years. Transported for stealing a watch. Gaol report very bad. Ship report, Bad. Stated this offence, Stg a watch, once for an assault, 9 weeks, Bow Gaol, widow. Offences- she absconded from her master several times and was punished for this. See her record for details.
POLICE. HATTON-GARDEN. Yesterday, a woman, who gave her name as Mary George, was brought to this office in the custody of George Taylor, a constable, who stated to the Magistrate that the prisoner effected her escape from the gaol of St. Alban's, where she had been confined on charges of felony, under the name of Mary Edwards, alias Brinkley. She arrived by the St. Alban's stage last month at the Angel at Islington, and hand-bills, offering a reward of ten pounds for her apprehension, had been circulated. On his apprehending the prisoner that morning, he discovered she bad defrauded several young women out of various sums of money and other articles, on pretence of telling their fortunes. One young woman she had by these pretences robbed of upwards of seventeen pounds in money, and wearing apparel. He searched the prisoner and found two packs of cards and several pawnbrokers' duplicates in her pocket. He handed up the cards, which the Magistrate ordered to be burnt. Mary Ann Macdonald, house maid at a gentleman's house, 11, Horton-street, Cross-street, Islington, deposed, that a few mornings ago the prisoner came to her (witness's) master's house, and asked her if she would have her fortune told by the planets Witness agreed, and gave her 7s. 6d. which was all the money she had, for that purpose. The prisoner then went off, promising to cast her nativity by the planets and to call next morning and tell her fortune. The prisoner called next morning, and told witness she could not cast her nativity unless she gave her a pound in money, and that if witness gave her some of her master's silver spoons or other property to pledge for that sum, she, the prisoner, would return them the next day. Witness consented, and gave the prisoner a silver table spoon of her master's, and a pelisse and silk handkerchief of her own to pledge, but she never saw the prisoner afterwards until she was in custody. The pawnbroker produced the spoon, pelisse, handkerchief &c. which he proved were pledged by the prisoner. The Magistrate ordered the duplicates found on the prisoner to be given to the young woman, in order that she might redeem the property, and sentenced the prisoner to three months confinement in the house of correction; and at the end of that time to be transmitted to St. Alban's gaol. Morning Chronicle, 10 March 1823. HATTON GARDEN.—FemaIe Highway Robbery.—Yesterday the woman who was committed on Saturday last from this office the name of Mary George, to the House Correction for three months for fraudulently obtaining money under the pretence of telling fortunes, was brought up again this day, to be identified as Mary Ann Edwards, a person who broke out of St. Alban's gaol on the 28th of December last, and for whose apprehension a reward of 10£. had been advertised. Mr. John Deyton, Keeper St. Alban’s Gaol, deposed, the prisoner was this person who escaped out of that gaol by means cutting the door with such implements she was by some means furnished with.—Mr. Deyton stated, that the prisoner was one a most formidable gang of gypsies, who had committed several burglaries and highway robberies. Magistrate ordered Mr. Deyton’s evidence to her identity the person who made her escape from St. Alban’s, be taken down in writing, and a detainer lodged against her the House of Correction, to be transmuted there when her three months are expired. Morning Advertiser, 11 March 1823.