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Mary Flannegan 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 | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 87, Class and Piece Number HO11/1, Page Number 19 (11) Australia, Convict Index, 1788-1868 |
| 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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Family connections for Mary (Flannagan) are: FLANNAGAN Mary (Flannegan) was born about 1765. She was tried for breaking entering & stealing, on 31 3 1788, hats etc of Saul (Lyons) at Old Bailey on 2 4 1788, sentenced to 7years, held at Middlesex Gaol Delivery & arrived in NSW as a convict on 3 6 1790 after a voyage of 12months on Fleet ship LADY JULIANA-a ship with 228females who easily entertained the whole crew & also sailors at Teneriffe stopover. She arrived on Norfolk Island, perhaps on MARY ANNE on 23 4 1792 (also recorded as arriving on 7 8 1791, same date as John (Owen)). She had a first relationship with John (Owen) & produced a child.>>> [Some details taken from this Website] John (Owen) was born on 17 1 1769. He was tried for 'hamesucken/assault'-ie.breaking in & assaulting-w/1other stealing cutlery etc of Henry (Creed) at Middlesex Gaol Delivery, sentenced to 7years & arrived in NSW as a convict on 27 1 1788 after a voyage of 12months on First Fleet ship SCARBOROUGH. On 13 9 1788 he was charged with aiding & abetting in attempted rape of Lydia (Munro PRINCE OF WALES 1788), sentenced to 50lashes remitted by forgiveness. He was found absent from camp at Rose Hill on 16 1 1789 & sentenced w/others to 100lashes. He is recorded as arriving on Norfolk Island on 7 8 1791 (same date as Mary (Flanagan)) & leaving on 5 3 1795. On 3 11 1794 he was granted 30acres at Mulgrave Place Hawkesbury. He was recorded in 1801 as an emancipist in Sydney. In 1806 he was recorded as a boatman & in 1814 as a seaman on JOHN PALMER. A John (Owen) is recorded as off stores in Hobart Town on 2 10 1818. He died on 2 11 1828 age59 father of perhaps 4children. Noted a John (Owen SCARBOROUGH 1788) is recorded as labourer ex-NSW Corps dying on 3 11 1826 age50 at Sydney Benevolent Asylum & buried at St James CofE Sydney. [Some details taken from this Website] .. >>>Mary (Flannegan) had a second marriage with William (Atkins his first marriage) on 4 1 1792 at St Phillips CofE Sydney or recorded there. She is recorded as leaving Norfolk Island on 30 3 1793. She died on 6 11 1795 age30 mother of 4children on Norfolk Island. William (Atkins) was born about 1756. He was tried at Northampton Liberty of Peterborough Assizes, sentenced to 14years & arrived in NSW as a convict on 26 6 1790 after a voyage of 6months on Fleet ship NEPTUNE; a voyage noted for extreme brutality of prisoners with a high death rate. He arrived on Norfolk Island, perhaps on SALAMANDER, on 11 11 1791. He started a second relationship with Mary (Allen/Proctor/Port) her fourth (4of6) relationship) before 1794-during her relationship with John (Martin). He is recorded as a constable settler Free by Servitude on stores on Norfolk Island in February 1805. He was noted as a masonic brethren in 1807. He was still a constable when he left Norfolk Island as part of the first evacuation (for which volunteers apparantly had been called with appropriate compensation offerred & for which he may have tried to decline as some successful farmers were asked to stay) with 3children on 15 5 1808 on ESTRAMINA to Derwent Tasmania, arriving on 5 6 1808; he had the Governors recommendation for a land grant. [Some details taken from this Website] References: Craig James Smee 'Births and Baptisms Marriages and Defacto Relationships Deaths and Burials New South Wales 1788-1830' ..a complete listing from church & other records in the early colony. Irene Schaffer & Thelma McKay 'Exiled Three Times Over! Profiles of Norfolk Islanders Exiled in Van Diemens Land 1807-1813' James Hugh Donohoe 'Norfolk Island 1788-1813-The People and Their Families' Reg Wright 'Forgotten Generation of Norfolk Island & Van Diemens Land'
1788 - Old Bailey On-Line Tried; 2nd April 1788 Tried at Old Bailey, London. Accused of housebreaking (feloniously breaking and entering the dwelling-house of Saul Lyons , about the hour of five in the afternoon, on the 31st of March, no person being therein, and stealing three men's hats, value 9 s. his property). Found guilty, guilty theft under 5s. 1789 - Australian Convict Transportation Registers - Second Fleet Name: Mary Flannegan ** Vessel: Lady Juliana Trial: 2 Apr 1788 Age 27 Birth Year Abt 1763