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Transportation
Catherine Hart was transported on the Lady Penrhyn, Scarborough And Alexander, departing 31st Dec 1786 and arriving 22nd Jan 1788 with 356 passengers.
Lady Penrhyn, Scarborough And AlexanderReferences
| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 87, Class and Piece Number HO11/1, Page Number 3 |
| 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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Convict Notes
Old Bailey Online CATHERINE HART. Theft; theft from a specified place. 8th December 1784 Text type Trial account Defendants CATHERINE HART Offences Theft > Theft from place Session Date 8th December 1784 Reference Number t17841208-116 Verdicts Guilty > Theft under 40s Punishments Transportation 124. CATHERINE HART was indicted for feloniously stealing, on the 21st of November last, three gowns, value 20 s. a silk petticoat, value 3 s. a dimity petticoat, value 3 s. five shirts, value 20 s. four shifts, value 8 s. three bonnets, value 3 s. the property of John Norfolk , in his dwelling house . JOHN NORFOLK sworn. I am a fishmonger in White-rose-court, Coleman-street , on Sunday the 21st of November, my wife and me went to church in the morning, and left the prisoner, who is our servant , at home, she had lived with us about three weeks; when we returned about one, I found the door upon the single latch, the house stripped, and the prisoner gone; I found her afterwards at the Waggon and Horse, at Tottenham, she had some of my wife's things on; she took the constable to a house just by; where the property was. JOHN CLARK sworn. I found the things at the house of one John Howard , there was a company drinking with the prisoner, I took her out, and she told me the things were very near, I told her to go before, she got from me; I found her in half an hour. (The things deposed to.) JOHN HOWARD sworn. I live at Edmonton, the prisoner left this bundle at my house, I have no acquaintance with her; she was taken before she came back; I never saw the bundle open till she was taken. Prisoner. I leave it to you, Sir, and the Jury. Court to Prosecutor. What may be the value of these things, if they are above forty shillings value, it will be a capital offence. Prosecutor. My Lord, I value them at thirty shillings, in order to save her life, because the wretch's life is no value to me. GUILTY, 30 s. Transported for seven years .