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Transportation
Sarah House 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 19 (11) |
| 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 Online SARAH HOUSE. Theft; grand larceny (to 1827). 7th May 1788 Text type Trial account Defendants SARAH HOUSE Offences Theft > Grand larceny Session Date 7th May 1788 Reference Number t17880507-27 Verdicts Guilty Punishments Transportation 357. SARAH HOUSE was indicted for feloniously stealing, upon the 17th of April , a linen shirt, value 3 s. the property of William Courtland . MARY COURTLAND sworn. On the 17th of April, I had been washing, and hung seven shirts out of the window to dry, about a quarter after eight in the evening; in a quarter of an hour, I missed one of them; Henry Barlow saw the prisoner going out, and bid me see if every thing was safe: on missing it, he followed her, and brought her back. HENRY BARLOW sworn. I saw the prisoner go out with a great cloak on; I followed her, and told her, I suspected she had something she should not have; she said, here, take it, and let me go; and gave me the shirt from under her cloak in the street; I took her to Bridewell; I could not get a constable. The shirt was produced in court by Barlow, and deposed to by the prosecutrix. The prisoner did not say any thing in her defence. GUILTY . Tried by the first Middlesex Jury before Mr. RECORDER.