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Personal Information
Voyage
Transportation
Mary Eginton was transported on the Friendship, departing 31st May 1817 and arriving 14th Jan 1818 with 102 passengers.
This convict ship, being 274 tons and 75 feet long was one of the light weight ships in the fllet and was skippered by Master Francis Walton. Built in Scarborough in 1784, she carried 76 male and 21 female convicts. During her return voyage to England her crew came down with scurvy and with insufficient crew to man her, she was scuttled in the straights of Macassar. The survivors were transferred to the Alexander.
FriendshipReferences
| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 88, Class and Piece Number HO11/2, Page Number 354 |
| 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
Transportation ...Mary Eginton, alias Mary the wife of William Smith, for privately stealing, in this town, from the shop of William Kenyon; .. for seven years. Aris’s Birmingham Gazette, 14 April 1817.
New South Wales, Australia, Colonial Secretary's Papers, 1788-1856 Main Series of Letters Received, 1788-1826 - names of convicts with their characters during the voyage from London to New South Wales on the transport ship Friendship. pp 6597 to 6605 A thief and prostitute
Sainty & Johnson; 1828 Census of New South Wales: Page 349… [Ref S1919] Smiles, James, 40, TL, Baring, 1815, Life, Tenant at Cabramatta. 100 acres, 40 cleared, 30 cultivated, 2 horses, 13 cattle. # [Ref 1920] Smiles, Mary, 30, FS, Friendship, 1818, 7 years. [Ref 1921] Smiles, Elizabeth, 9, born in colony. [Ref 1922] Smiles, James, 6, born in colony. [Ref 1923] Smiles, Mary Ann, 4, born in colony. [Ref 1924] Smiles, Margaret, 2, born in colony.
n the colony, Mary married James Smiles (Convict, Baring, 1815) on April 20th 1818 at Liverpool. They had 5 children between 1818 and 1826.