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Voyage
Transportation
Ann Fortescue 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
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Convict Notes
National Archives. HO 47/6/71 1787 Certificate/memorial of Henry Gould and Alexander Thomson on several convicts attainted and for whom 'some favourable Circumstances' appeared after their trial and now recommended for mercy on the conditions set against their names: Kent Assizes at Maidstone, 19 March 1787 Ann Harmsden and Ann Fortescue, for a highway robbery and stealing goods, value 11/2, from Mary Brown. Recommendation: 14 years transportation.
Ann was originally sentenced to death, but was one of the lucky ones pardoned by the king, after his miraculous recovery from madness! she was embarked on the Lady Juliana on 04/04/1789, bound for Port Jackson, NSW. On 16/10/1790, Ann married William Read, a 2nd Fleet convict from the Scarborough. He had served his sentence by the time he arrived in the colony. They had a daughter Elizabeth, baptized in 1794. No further information is known.