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Voyage
Transportation
Mary Ann Helps was transported on the Brothers, departing 20th Nov 1823 and arriving 5th Apr 1824 with 91 passengers.
Brothers (generic)References
| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 88, Class and Piece Number HO11/5, Page Number 111 (57) |
| 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
Colonial Secretary Index. HELPS, Mary Ann. Per "Brothers", 1824 1824 May On list of female convicts arrived at Sydney on board the "Brothers" (Reel 6059; 4/1774 p.43) 1824 Oct 11 Re permission to marry at Parramatta (Reel 6013; 4/3512 p.526) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Re permission to marry at Parramatta. George Coultrip, free and Mary Ann Helps, Convict per Ship Brothers. Requested by Samuel Marsden, Senior Chaplain, Parramatta. 11 Oct 1824.
Died in Hobart, Tasmania
New South Wales, Australia, Convict Indents. Brothers - 1824 Name; Mary Ann Helps Trade or calling; Cook Trial where & Date; Newgate - 10 Sept 1823 Sentence; 7 years Age; Year of birth; 1802 Native Place; London Height; 5 ft. 0 1/2 in Eyes; Grey Hair; Brown Completion; Sallow Remarks [Behaviour on board ship] Excellent Additional remarks noted against name; Unmarried Protestant ----------------
Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 10 March 2020), September 1823, trial of MARY ANN HELPS (t18230910-243). MARY ANN HELPS, Theft > grand larceny, 10th September 1823. 1212. MARY ANN HELPS was indicted for stealing, on the 21st of August , a watch, value 20 s.; a chain, value 6 s.; a seal. value 7 s., and a key, value 2 s. , the goods of John Willson . MARGARET WILLSON . I am the wife of John Willson , who lives at Mile-end . I have known the prisoner some time, but had not seen her for six months before this, she was servant in the neighbourhood. On the 21st of August, about half-past ten o'clock in the morning, she called, and said she would stop with me a few hours, if I had no objection - she dined with me, and said she was very ill; I offered her my bed to lay on, which she did. I said, if she was not down at four o'clock, I would call her. She came down at three, I made her tea - she drank one cup, I poured her out another, ran up stairs, and immediately missed my husband's watch from the bed-side, which was safe when she went into the room - when I camedown, she was gone - had left the street door open, and not drank her tea. THOMAS DREW . I apprehended her on the 22d of August, she said she had pawned the watch in Shoreditch. I named a shop at the corner of an alley - she said she had pawned it there for 25 s., in the name of Anderson, and I found it next day in pawn, in Turnmill-street, in the name of Lawson. GEORGE HARVEY . I am shopman to Mr. Cross, Turnmill-street. On the 21st of August, in the afternoon, the prisoner pawned the watch for 25 s. (Property produced and sworn to.) GUILTY . Aged 21. Transported for Seven Years . ----------------------------------------------------- One of 39 women on board “Brothers” who landed in NSW. Surgeon’s Comment on Conduct on board during the voyage. Mary Ann Helps - very good