Sarah Farrell

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Maureen Withey on 22nd January 2023

Colonial Secretary Index. FARRELL, Sarah 1823 Feb 17 Proceeding to Port Macquarie per "Mermaid" to join her husband (Reel 6019; 4/3864 p.34) From Colonial Secretary Office, 17 Feb 1823. To Captain Allman, Commandant, Port Macquarie. Sir, I have the honor to acquaint you that the Cutter Mermaid is now dispatched to Port Macquarie laden with provisions and taking forty prisoners from Newcastle on her way to the former settlement. The women named in the margin proceed by the present opportunity in order to join their husbands who are at Port Macquarie. (Signed) F. Goulbern, Col. Sec. Names in Margin: Sarah Farrell (and others) https://records-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/primo-explore/fulldisplay?docid=INDEX2443740&context=L&vid=61SRA&lang=en_US&search_scope=Everything&adaptor=Local Search Engine&tab=default_tab&query=any,contains,Sarah Farrell,AND&facet=topic,include,Index to the Colonial Secretary's Papers, 1788-1825&mode=advanced&offset=0

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Margaret Jones on 17th January 2023

Re number of convicts who were landed in NSW from the Morley 1820 after leaving 50 in Hobart: there is a correction in the Sydney Gazette 30/09/1820 (page 3)stating that the number was 71 female convicted were landed in Sydney.

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Margaret Jones on 17th January 2023

Regarding Sarah and VDL: firstly VDL was still considered NSW in 1820. Sarah Farrell has a Convict Conduct Record (TAHO: CON40/1/3 Image 150) that states that she arrived in Hobart per the Morley 1820; Convicted in London February 1820; sentence 14 years.The first offence listed on the CCR is dated 19/10/1820. TROVE: The Hobart Town Gazette and Southern Reporter, 02/09/1820 reports the Morley arriving in Hobart with 120 female convicts. It was not unusual for convict ships at this time to "off load" a third to half of the convicts onboard at Hobart and then proceed to Sydney with the remainder. This applied to both male and female convicts.The Sydney Gazette and NSW Advertiser 16/09/1820 page 2 reports "On Thursday last, arrived from England, the ship Morley, Captain Brown. She left London the 22nd of May and called at Hobart Town at which settlement she landed 50 female prisoners and brings 21 (? not sure where the rest went or it's a typo) to Port Jackson; the whom of all are in good health..." Sarah went on to marry Daniel Garcia whose conduct record records that on "03/07/1821 Stealing 9 hats from the premises of a Bethune, the property of Hush - Munroe- to be transported to Newcastle [NSW] for the remainder of his original sentence". Have looked to see if there is any record surviving indicating if Sarah came with Daniel to NSW, but haven't found anything. She was definitely in NSW in October 1822 in Sydney Gaol and sent to the Parramatta Female Factory 22/10/1822 from Sydney Gaol (see NSW Museums of History: State Archives Collection: Sydney Gaol Entrance Admissions 1822 [Ancestry screen 116]). Her last offence entry on her CCR is dated 07/03/1821.Possibly she did accompany Daniel to NSW in late 1821.

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Robin Sharkey on 6th September 2021

SARAH FARRELL and her sister ANN FARRELL were tried together as part of a large gang of forgers - seven women and 23 men. The Bank of England, as the injured party in forged bank note trials, would offer the lesser charge of POSSESSION of bank notes if the accused agreed to plead guilty to it (instead of prosecuting an uttering charge which had the death sentence if found guilty). Twenty-six accused all charged together ultimately pleaded guilty to the possession charge and got 14 years transportation. Morning Chronicle, Sat 19 Feb 1820, p.4 "OLD BAILEY "The numerous list which the Calendar o f every Old Bailey Session presents, is a melancholy proof not only of the rapid increase of the uttering of forged notes, particularly the young, but also of the little attention which is paid to the means of preventing such a serious crime, and so great a less as public traders and others are liable to. "The following are the names of the parties who were arraigned for the crime of forgery: " Ann Farrell, 18, and Sarah Farrell, 15, two sisters, the latter is to all appearance pregnant; [All the people who appear on the Old Bailey indictment list set out above were also listed here] "The above twenty were allowed to plead Guilty to the minor offence, of having the notes in their possession knowing them to he forged. They were afterwards put to the bar on the capital charge, but no evidence was offered against them. They are, however, subjected to transportation for fourteen years. We regret to say, that several of them behaved with a levity most disgraceful, laughing in the Court, and making a dreadful noise in the bail-dock, after being taken down." Some of the gang did not take the possession plea, but instead "pleaded Not Guilty to both the major and minor offences". All the seven women in the gang were sent on the ship "Morley" - Sarah & Ann Farrell, Mary Gould aged 21, Susan/Susannah Marr aged 16, Mary Jones aged 17, Ann Curtis aged 27 and Mary Herd aged 34.

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Robin Sharkey on 6th September 2021

SARAH FARRELL and her sister ANN FARRELL were tried together as part of a large gang of forgers - seven women and 23 men. The Bank of England, as the injured party in forged bank note trials, would offer the lesser charge of POSSESSION of bank notes if the accused agreed to plead guilty to it (instead of prosecuting an uttering charge which had the death sentence if found guilty). Twenty-six accused all charged together ultimately pleaded guilty to the possession charge and got 14 years transportation. Morning Chronicle, Sat 19 Feb 1820, p.4 "OLD BAILEY "The numerous list which the Calendar o f every Old Bailey Session presents, is a melancholy proof not only of the rapid increase of the uttering of forged notes, particularly the young, but also of the little attention which is paid to the means of preventing such a serious crime, and so great a less as public traders and others are liable to. "The following are the names of the parties who were arraigned for the crime of forgery: " Ann Farrell, 18, and Sarah Farrell, 15, two sisters, the latter is to all appearance pregnant; [All the people who appear on the Old Bailey indictment list set out above were also listed here] "The above twenty were allowed to plead Guilty to the minor offence, of having the notes in their possession knowing them to he forged. They were afterwards put to the bar on the capital charge, but no evidence was offered against them. They are, however, subjected to transportation for fourteen years. We regret to say, that several of them behaved with a levity most disgraceful, laughing in the Court, and making a dreadful noise in the bail-dock, after being taken down." Some of the gang did not take the possession plea, but instead "pleaded Not Guilty to both the major and minor offences". All the seven women in the gang were sent on the ship "Morley" - Sarah & Ann Farrell, Mary Gould aged 21, Susan/Susannah Marr aged 16, Mary Jones aged 17, Ann Curtis aged 27 and Mary Herd aged 34.

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Maureen Withey on 16th February 2020

Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 16 February 2020), February 1820, trial of GEORGE STEWART ALBINE COOK, WILLIAM OWEN JOHN COATES WILLIAM SCOTT JAMES LANG MICHAEL LAMBERT THOMAS PHILLIPS WILLIAM QUIN JAMES RILEY JAMES ARCHBALD HENRY LEWIS THOMAS MARTIN HENRY BUCKNELL WILLIAM HARRIS ANN FARRELL SARAH FARRELL MARY GOULD SUSAN MARR MARY JONES DANIEL LUCAS JOHN CURTIS ANN CURTIS WILLIAM ROSE MARY HEARD JOHN CARTER (t18200217-17). GEORGE STEWART, ALBINE COOK, WILLIAM OWEN, JOHN COATES, WILLIAM SCOTT, JAMES LANG, MICHAEL LAMBERT, THOMAS PHILLIPS, WILLIAM QUIN, JAMES RILEY, JAMES ARCHBALD, HENRY LEWIS, THOMAS MARTIN, HENRY BUCKNELL, WILLIAM HARRIS, ANN FARRELL, SARAH FARRELL, MARY GOULD, SUSAN MARR, MARY JONES, DANIEL LUCAS, JOHN CURTIS, ANN CURTIS, WILLIAM ROSE, MARY HEARD, JOHN CARTER, Royal Offences > coining offences, 17th February 1820. 366. GEORGE STEWART , ALBINE COOK, WILLIAM OWEN , JOHN COATES , WILLIAM SCOTT , JAMES LANG , MICHAEL LAMBERT , THOMAS PHILLIPS , WILLIAM QUIN , JAMES RILEY , JAMES ARCHBALD , HENRY LEWIS , THOMAS MARTIN , HENRY BUCKNELL , WILLIAM HARRIS , ANN FARRELL , SARAH FARRELL , MARY GOULD , SUSAN MARR , MARY JONES , DANIEL LUCAS , JOHN CURTIS , ANN CURTIS , WILLIAM ROSE , MARY HEARD , and JOHN CARTER were severally and separately indicted for having in their custody and possession, forged Bank notes, knowing them to be forged . To which indictments the prisoners severally and separately pleaded GUILTY . Transported for Fourteen Years . Before Mr. Baron Graham . ------------------------------------------------- https://stors.tas.gov.au/CON13-1-2$init=CON13-1-2p56 and following pages. List of female convicts from Morely (3), Master, Brown, in 1820, who landed at Hobart, not Sydney. Sarah Farrell, Convicted at Middlesex G.D., 17 Feb 1820, 14 years.

Sarah Farrell was transported for having forged bank notes in her possession. It gets a little confusing here. The record says she arrived in NSW but she was also in VDL. The ship Morley disembarked 50 females in Hobart and the 72 females in NSW. In 1821 Sarah married Daniel Garcia (morley 1816) and after Daniel was transported to VDL for another offence, she accompanied him back to NSW. Other than this I could find no other records of her.