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Voyage
Transportation
Ruth Kaye was transported on the Mary Anne, departing 25th Dec 1821 and arriving 20th May 1822 with 109 passengers.
Built in France 1772 of 298 Tons first sailed as a British convict ship from Portsmouth 16/02/1791.
Mary Anne (generic)References
| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 88, Class and Piece Number HO11/4, Page Number 135 (69) |
| 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
Committed to York Castle, Ruth Kaye, alias Morrel for robbing John Scott, on the highway, near Leeds, of a leather pocket-book, and five one pound notes. Leeds Intelligencer, 30 July 1821. -------------------------------------------------- COURT. This morning Mr. Justice Holboro passed sentence on the remaining prisoners- John Cocker Barnsley, for forgery, and Ruth Kaye, for highway robbery. Death ; but his lordship intimated the sentence would not be executed. Leeds Intelligencer, 20 Aug 1821. --------------------------------------------------- Friday morning the following female convicts left York Castle, in order to be order to be delivered on board the transportship Mary Ann bound for New South Wales, lying below Woolwich, up the river Thames — Sarah Fenton and Mary Robinson to be transported for life; Ruth Kaye for 14 years; Sarah Hellewell and Elizabeth Ellerbeck, for 7 years each.— Leeds Intelligencer, 26 Nov 1821.
Colonial Secretary Index. KAY, Ruth. Per "Mary Ann". 1824 Aug 2 Re permission to marry at Parramatta (Reel 6013; 4/3512 p.127) -------------------------------------------------- 1828 Census. Householder listed as Thomas Hassall, clergyman, and his family, at Denbigh, Cooke district. William Smith, age 32, F.S. Agamemnon, 1820, Overseer, protestant. Ruth Smith, age 34, G.S. Mary Anne, 1822, 14 years, wife of above, protestant. --------------------------------------------------- Colonial Secretary Index. SMITH, William. Per "Agamemnon", 1820. 1823 Apr 11 Sawyer at Barren Ridge, district of Field of Mars. Request from Thomas Bowden for Smith's services as a sawyer (Reel 6058; 4/1771 p.213) 1823 Jul 11 On list of prisoners assigned (Fiche 3291; 4/4570D p.114) 1824 Aug 2 Re permission to marry at Parramatta (Reel 6013; 4/3512 p.127) --------------------------------------------------- Convict Index, 1791-1873. Ruth Kaye, per Mary Anne, 1822, Certificate of Freedom, 19 Dec 1835. 35/1308. Wife of William Smith, O’Connell Plains, (as stated on her CF.)