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Transportation
Eleanor Kervin 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
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Convict Notes
Old Bailey Proceedings supplementary material, Eleanor Kirvin, 18th April 1787. Eleanor Kirvin, otherwise Karavan , upon whom judgment of death had been respited at a former session, she being with quick child, and having since miscarried, was brought to the bar and execution was awarded against her,but to be staid till his Majesty's pleasure should be known .
National Archives. HO 47/9/4 1789 Apr 17 Report of James Adair, Recorder of London. Also includes a list from the Recorder of London enclosing a list of capital convicts respited but who cannot be removed until their pardons are confirmed, they are to receive sentence of transportation as set against their names: London 1. Eleanor Kirvin alias Karavan. Convicted in October 1786, recommended to 7 years transportation.
Eleanor Kervin,a widow, was convicted at the Old Bailey, London October 1786 for forgery of a will of a seaman. (Eleanor gave credit to sea faring people and often kept Wills as surety. She also found seaman for ships and was paid for this service.) She received a Death sentence, but as she was pregnant, it was commuted to transportation for 7yrs. She was transported to New South Wales, Australia on the 'Lady Juliana' 2nd Fleet, arriving 03/06/1790. 31/07/1790: Married Henry Palmer, St. Phillips Church, Sydney. 01/08/1790: Transferred to Norfolk Island on the 'Surprise'. 26/11/1790: Husband, Henry Palmer accidentally killed by a falling tree. 11/02/1791: Departed Norfolk Island for Sydney. 30/03/1791: Paramatta - receiving stolen tobacco. 08/1791: Returned to Norfolk Island. 22/10/1791: Stillborn baby born to Eleanor. Said to have left Colony, at the expiration of her sentence, for India.