Sarah Guy

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Penny-Lyn Beale on 20th September 2024

CON15-1-3 Image 18 Place of origin: Castlebar, Mayo Status; Married. 3 children. 2 children on board R.C. Able to read and write Offence; Stealing a watch box and 1/- Trade; Cook. FRIENDS OF THE ORPHAN SCHOOL Orphan Number: 2265 Orphan: Catherine GUY Mother: GUY, Sarah Father: , Mother's ship: Angelina Father's ship: Age when admitted: 10yrs Date admitted: 31 Aug 1844 Date discharged: 4 Mar 1847 Institution(s): Queens Orphan School Discharged to: Richard Brown, Hobart Remarks: References: SWD7, 28 https://www.orphanschool.org.au/showorphan.php?orphan_ID=2265 FRIENDS OF THE ORPHAN SCHOOLS Orphan Number: 2266 Orphan: Mary GUY Mother: GUY, Sarah Father: , Mother's ship: Angelina Father's ship: Age when admitted: 6yrs Date admitted: 31 Aug 1844 Date discharged: 10 Sep 1849 Institution(s): Queens Orphan School Discharged to: mother, Ticket of Leave Remarks: References: SWD7, 28 https://www.orphanschool.org.au/showorphan.php?orphan_ID=2266

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D Wong on 20th October 2019

Petitions: Sarah Guy ID1541 per Angelina 1844 Sarah Guy aged 39 Liverpool Sessions December 1843 Stealing from the person 10 years transportation Gaol report – In prison before. Convicted with thieves and prostitutes. Series _ HO 18 Piece Number – 123 ---------------------------- The prisoner prays for mitigation on the grounds that the Prosecutor has been convicted of felony, and that he was mistaken as to her identity. -------------------------- Transport GG -------------------- To The Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty The humble Petition of Sarah Guy a prisoner in the Borough Gaol at Liverpool Borough Goal of Liverpool 29th December 1843. Sheweth That your Petitioner was committed on the 12th of November last along with her husband Henry Guy for robbing a person named John Whally of a watch whilst he was in her house in company with a female. That on the 13th of December your Petitioner was tried with her husband for this offence and was found guilty of the charge of assisting her husband in robbing the said Prosecutor of his watch and that in consequence there of you Petitioner and her husband were sentenced to be transported for the term of ten years each. That about 4 years ago your petitioner was left a widow with three small children to maintain by her own industry and that she was induced to marry the said Henry Guy under the impression that he would be a protection to your Petitioner and her small family. That your Petitioner most humbly begs to say that the Prosecutor John Whalley was the principle witness against your Petitioner at her trial and had been himself convicted of a felony at the March Assizes 1843 and that your Petitioner also humbly begs to say that she was not the female who robbed the said John Whalley of his watch. That in consequence of the said John Whalley having mistaken your Petitioner for the identical female who committed the robbery and that she had fallen a victim to this understanding. Your Petitioner most humbly prays that in consequence of your Petitioner’s family of three infant children that your Majesty will be pleased to commute her sentence for transportation to a shorter imprisonment and your Petitioner as in duty bound will ever pray. Sarah Guy. Sarah Guy was listed as 57 years old on 'Founders and Survivors' website - but according to her Petition she was 39 years old and born in 1804. Sarah was 5'0" tall, sallow complexion, dark brown hair, hazel eyes, literate, married with 3 children. Native Place: Ireland. 28/8/1849: TOL 30//3/1852: CP 15/10/1853: Free Certificate 23/3/1854 The Tasmanian Colonist, Hobart: Elizabeth Williams and Sarah Guy, both free, were charged, the former for stealing and the latter for feloniously receiving a cask of pork, the property of Mr. Levien. From Mr. Levien's evidence it was shown that he had shipped some pork from Sydney, which was consigned to Mr. Maxwell the merchant as witness's agent, who was answerable to him for the consignment : there were 100 casks shipped by witness, but only 99 were received. Evidence had been previously adduced by which the case was proved against the prisoners, who were fully committed for trial. Mr. Bower, who appeared for Mrs. Guy, intimated that she had nothing to say in her defence at present, nor did she call any witnesses. ___ Sentenced to 7 years. (Stated in a newspaper report that Sarah was a dealer and lived on the Wharf, Hobart). 31/1/1857: TOL 9/3/1858: CP 26/7/1859: Free pardon.

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Iris Dunne on 20th October 2019

DOB discrepancy Criminal Register: Trial 13 Dec. 1843, aged 21, Crime Larceny from the person, Sentence 10 years (convicted with Henry Guy aged 39 for same offence) Conduct Record: aged 57, Trade Cook https://stors.tas.gov.au/CON41-1-3$init=CON41-1-3p56 Description List https://stors.tas.gov.au/CON19-1-4$init=CON19-1-4p94 Indent: https://stors.tas.gov.au/CON15-1-3$init=CON15-1-3P18 https://stors.tas.gov.au/CON15-1-3$init=CON15-1-3P19 Registry of Women reconvicted: 18 months at the Cascade Factory, Tried Hobart 3 April 1854 for stealing a cask of pork, property of John Levien https://stors.tas.gov.au/CON42-1-1$init=CON42-1-1P72

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Anthony Hirst Waddingham on 18th October 2019

Sarah Guy is my Gt x3 grandmother.Some aspects of her convict life are known to family,but Sarah's circumstances after October 1859 and Death/Burial details are unknown.Further history on daughters Mary and Catherine (also ex Angelina) under first marriage name Gallagher is held by family.