Mary Johnson

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Penny-Lyn Beale on 5th September 2021

1825 - New South Wales and Tasmania, Australia Convict Musters. Year - 1825 Name; Margaret Johnson Age; No details Class; F. S. Ship; Alexander - 1788 - 7 years Remarks\Assigned; DIED; 1824. Sydney

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Maureen Withey on 12th July 2020

Old Bailey Proceedings Online (http://www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 12 July 2020), April 1786, trial of ELIZABETH COLE MARY JOHNSON (t17860426-27). ELIZABETH COLE, MARY JOHNSON, Theft > grand larceny, 26th April 1786. 345. ELIZABETH COLE and MARY JOHNSON were indicted for feloniously stealing, on the 1st day of April, nine pair of men’s worsted stockings, value 20 s. the property of Griffith Humphrys and John Humphrys . JOHN HUMPHRYS sworn. I am a linen-draper and hosier , in partnership with my father Griffith Humphrys , No. 27, Shoreditch . On Saturday evening, the 1st of April, having been out about ten minutes, I was informed, on my return, that two shop-lifrers had been at the shop; I ordered the shop to be shut up, and standing at my door, I was informed the two girls were gone into another haberdasher’s just by, and I heard the prisoner Johnson say to the other, it will not do; so they went on a few doors farther, and they stopped suddenly, and Johnson said to the other, let us go back: after a pause of about a minute or two, they turned round; I let them pass me, and as they passed me, she said, I will buy, but God bless you, mind you are not seen; I concluded from that they were going into the haberdasher’s shop, and I intended to watch them; but they passed it, and went into my shop, and the prisoner Johnson asked to look at a piece of cloth she saw when she was there before; she was shewn it, and made no difficulty about the price or quality, but upon the quantity; at last, she determined on buying a yard and a quarter of it; there were some printed cotton stockings lay upon the counter; I did not see either of them take any thing; Johnson paid, and they went out together, but I suspected Cole to have something, and I observed her to make a move with her arm, as if she wanted to throw something away, and she let fall a parcel of stockings, nine pair, with my mark upon the paper; I am sure of the property. Evan Price , the shopman, deposed to the same effect, as to the prisoners coming into the shop the first and second time, and that Mary Johnson asked to look at some cloth, and the prisoner Cole in the mean time turned herself about, and leaned her back against the other counter opposite, where were a parcel of stockings; she stood there about half a minute, and after that she moved herself from there, and came nearer to him, and then he could see a parcel which afterwards proved to be the one produced; he saw the side of it under her cloak, as she was shifting it to get it more out of sight, but he did not see enough of it to know what it was; but her manner of concealing it gave him a suspicion; they went out of the shop together, side by side, and he afterwards saw the parcel drop from the prisoner Cole. The prisoners both denied the charge. The prisoner Cole called one witness to her character. BOTH GUILTY . Each transported for seven years . Tried by the first Middlesex Jury before Mr. Baron EYRE .