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Transportation
Mary Higgins 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
| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 87, Class and Piece Number HO11/1, Page Number 21 (12) |
| 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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"Mary Higgins/Whiston is my G-G-G-G-G-Grandmother on my mothers side"
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Convict Notes
Family connections for Mary (Higgins) are: HIGGINS Mary (Higgins/Harrold nee Whiston) was born on 8 4 1757. She was tried for stealing, on 19 12 1788, blue silk lutestring of John (Barlow) and John (Hops) at Old Bailey on 14 1 1789, sentenced to 7years, held at Middlesex Gaol Delivery & arrived in NSW as a convict with a child on 3 6 1790 after a voyage of 6months on Fleet ship LADY JULIANA-a ship with 228females who easily entertained the whole crew & also sailors at Teneriffe stopover; she is recorded as arriving on Norfolk Island on 7 8 1790. She had her second known relationship with James (Triffett his first relationship) from about 1794, produced 2children & later married. She is recorded as sentence expired on stores on Norfolk Island in February 1805. She left Norfolk Island with her family as part of the first evacuation on 3 9 1808 on CITY OF EDINBURGH, arriving on 2 10 1808 to allottments at Back River New Norfolk/Derwent Valley Tasmania. She married James (Triffett) on 22 4 1812 at St Davids CofE Hobart Tasmania. She is recorded as off stores at Hobart Town on 2 10 1818. She died on 6 1 1834 age76 mother of 3known children. [Some details taken from this Website] Mary (Higgins)s child was: 1.Ann (Higgins) was born 1788 in England. She was brought to NSW by her mother arriving on 3 6 1790 after a voyage of 6months on Fleet ship LADY JULIANA. She died on 18 7 1790 age2 & was buried at St Phillips CofE Sydney. .. James (Triffett) was born (8th of 10children) about 1769 & was christened on 11 6 1769 at Whixley York & became a farmer. He was tried for stealing rum & a corkscrew, at Beverley races, at Beverley Yorkshire Quarter Sessions, sentenced to 7years & arrived in NSW as a convict on 9 7 1791 after a voyage of 6months on Fleet ship MATILDA; he was sent to Norfolk Island. He is recorded as arriving on Norfolk Island on 7 8 1790. [Noted that a John [James?] (Triffett) had 31.5acres (plot 107 on west side of the island) in 1796. He is recorded as a constable Free by Servitude settler on stores on Norfolk Island in February 1805. He left Norfolk Island with his family as part of the first evacuation on 3 9 1808 (for which volunteers apparantly had been called with appropriate compensation offerred & for which he may have tried to decline as some successful farmers were asked to stay) on CITY OF EDINBURGH to Derwent Tasmania, arriving on 2 10 1808: he & his sons were later granted allottments at Back River New Norfolk/Derwent Valley. He was robbed at New Norfolk by bushrangers in 1815. He is recorded as off stores at Hobart Town on 2 10 1818. He cohabited secondly with Sophia (Daniels/Barnes). He bought land in 1829, which he sold in 1837. He died on 2 4 1853 age83 father of perhaps 7children of old age & infirmity. [Some details taken from this Website] References: Craig James Smee 'Births and Baptisms Marriages and Defacto Relationships Deaths and Burials New South Wales 1788-1830' ..a complete listing from church & other records in the early colony. Irene Schaffer & Thelma McKay 'Exiled Three Times Over! Profiles of Norfolk Islanders Exiled in Van Diemens Land 1807-1813' James Hugh Donohoe 'Norfolk Island 1788-1813-The People and Their Families' Reg Wright 'Forgotten Generation of Norfolk Island & Van Diemens Land'
Old Bailey Online MARY HIGGINS. Theft; shoplifting. 14th January 1789. Text type Trial account Defendants MARY HIGGINS Offences Theft > Shoplifting Session Date 14th January 1789 Reference Number t17890114-5 Verdicts Guilty > Lesser offence Punishments Transportation 102. MARY HIGGINS, alias HERRALD , was indicted for feloniously stealing, on the 19th of December last, thirty-seven yards of blue silk lutestring, of the value of 7 l. the goods of John Barlow and John Hops , privately in their shop . JOHN BARLOW sworn. I live in Cranbourn-passage ; my partner 's name is John Hops . I only prove the property. JOHN LLOYD sworn. On Friday, the 19th of December, at three or four o'clock, the prisoner came to our shop, to purchase a few articles, which she paid for. When she came in, I observed the piece of lutestring on the counter: she went out of the shop; I missed it as she was going out; I followed her, and took her about three or four yards from the shop; I brought her back, and took it from under her cloak; she said she picked it up in the front shop, and meant to bring it back again. (Deposed to by Mr. Barlow.) The prisoner called three witnesses to her character. GUILTY, Of stealing, but not privately . Tried by the second Middlesex Jury before Mr. RECORDER.