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Transportation
Mary Ann Grecian was transported on the Bellona, departing 30th Jun 1792 and arriving 16th Jan 1793 with 18 passengers.
Bellona (generic)References
| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 87, Class and Piece Number HO11/1, Page Number 191 (96) |
| 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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Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 14 July 2020), March 1792, trial of JOHN COTTON MARY ANN GRECION (t17920329-58). JOHN COTTON, MARY ANN GRECION, Theft > burglary, 29th March 1792. 216. JOHN COTTON and MARY ANN GRECION were indicted for burglariously and feloniously breaking and entering the dwelling-house of Mary Scott , widow , about the hour of seven in the night, on the 13th of March , and burglariously stealing therein three linen gowns, value 40 s. one dimity petticoat, value 5 s. a muslin apron, value 5 s. one linen apron, value 1 s. two check aprons, value 2 s. three muslin handkerchiefs, value 5 s. one muslin frock, value 2 s. a cloak, value 2 s. two yards of edging, value 2 s. three handkerchiefs, value 18 d. five caps, value 2 s. 6 d. three dimity pockets, value 2 s. three half cotton shawls, value 12 s. 6 d. seven yards of silk ribbon, value 7 d. three muslin caps, value 3 s. a pair of mittens, value 6 d. three pair of robins, value 18 d. ten yards of silk sash ribbon, value 5 s. three muslin caps, value 3 s. one tin canister, value 2 d. one linen body-lining, value 3 d. one paper fan, mounted with ivory, value 1 s. one pair of scissars, value 1 d. two linen shifts, value 3 s. and three guineas, and two linen housewifes, value 1 d. the property of Elizabeth Scott , spinster . (The case opened by Mr. Knapp.) (The witnesses examined apart.) MARY SCOTT sworn. I am a widow. I live at Shadwell , and keep a small house there. On the 15th of March, a little after seven at night, I locked up my house, and went out: I fastened every thing, and returned about eight; it was quite dark: I went out for some candles; when I returned, I found my door wide open, and my window broke: I ran up stairs, and missed my daughter's box from the landing-place, and then I missed the other things; my daughter had been come to me nine days from place. ELIZABETH SCOTT sworn. I am the daughter of the last witness; I lived with her on the 15th of March; I went out at three, and returned about ten, when I went into my room I missed my box, it contained all the articles mentioned in the indictment: I saw some of the articles at the justice's, on Saturday morning, the 15th was Thursday, they were my property. (The things produced by Theophilus Butcher , and deposed to by Elizabeth Scott .) The value of the whole was five guineas; there were three guineas in money, but I mean five guineas without the money. THEOPHILUS BUTCHER sworn. I am an officer of Shadwell. I apprehended the two prisoners at her lodgings, on Saturday morning, the 17th; they were at breakfast; she said they were her lodgings; it was in New Gravel-lane: I wentthere in consequence of an information; I pulled up the bed, and between the bed and the sacking, these things laid; says I, how did you come by all these things? she said, they are mine, I have had them this week past. The prisoner Cotton was there, he was writing this letter, I looked over it, which letter led us to the discovery of the fan: we took them to the justice: I found nothing else. GEORGE FORRESTER sworn. I went to their lodgings, on the 17th; I am an officer of the parish; they were both drinking tea: Theophilus Butcher turned up the bed, and found part of the property; as soon as ever that was done the man prisoner took the fan out of his bosom so, and put it under an iron grate in the fire-place, there I found it, I have had it ever since. (The fan deposed to by Elizabeth Scott .) It was in the same paper. EDWARD LUCAS sworn. I found this dimity pocket and a pair of scissars in the room; neither of the prisoners were there then, it was a second search. PRISONER COTTON's DEFENCE. I got this fan from the woman prisoner. JOHN COTTON , (Aged 19) MARY ANN GRECION , (Aged 20) GUILTY Of stealing in the dwelling-house, not of the burglary. Death . Tried by the second Middlesex Jury before Lord KENYON. --------------------------------------------------- At five o'clock in the evening the Seffions were ended; when the Recorder passed sentence of Death on the following thirteen capital convicts, viz.— …. John Cotton, and Mary Ann Grecian, for Burglaries; ... Evening Mail, Friday March 30, 1792. --------------------------------------------------- Yesterday the Recorder made his report to the King in Council of the prisoners under sentence of death in Newgate, convicted in the last sessions, when … and the following were ordered to be transported for life, viz. …. John Cotton and Mary Ann Grecian, for a burglary in the house of Mary Scott; The London Chronicle for 1792, page 452, Saturday May 12.
https://indexes.records.nsw.gov.au/ebook/digitalcontent.aspx?id=1150_SZ115_0383 List of Convicts per the Bellona Jan 1793. Grecian Mary Ann, Co. of Middlesex, May 1792, Life.