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Voyage
Transportation
Sarah Leggatt was transported on the Providence, departing 8th Dec 1825 and arriving 16th May 1826 with 100 passengers.
The ship named 'Providence' was built in Calcutta, India in 1808. 649 tons. The 1811 voyage brought many convicts from Ireland to Australia. 73rd Regiment. Also several free settlers. 5-6 deaths on voyage. The ship was lastly scuttled at St. Martin's, Isle of Scilly in 1833.
Providence (generic)References
| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 88, Class and Piece Number HO11/5, Page Number 327 (165) |
| 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
SCHOOLMISTRESS: None of the above records gives Sarah's occupation on arrival in VDL, but she is listed as a schoolmistress in at least two different publications. The Founders & Survivors database says she was a "schoolmistress" and "took in needlework". It gives London as her place of birth, in 1797 (http://foundersandsurvivors.org/pubsearch/convict/chain/c40a3195). Sarah was one of only 29 female convicts sent to VDL who said they were schoolmistresses or governesses. Ten of those women were the subject of a study by Don Bradmore whose paper, “Convict schoolmistresses in Van Diemen’s Land”, was presented in November 2015 in Hobart at the Female Convicts Research Centre seminar, “What the convicts brought with them – and what they left behind” (see https://www.femaleconvicts.org.au/docs/seminars/DonBradmore-Nov2015.pdf). About Sarah Leggatt (2015, p2) he writes: "It is possible that she taught in schools in VDL but no evidence of her doing so has been found. She was a somewhat troublesome convict and her record shows that she was frequently punished by the authorities." Did he search of records for Sarah Hall? If William Hall was given an official extension of his Conditional Pardon in 1848, the couple may have left VDL altogether. --0--
CERT OF FREEDOM: 16 November, 1846: Sarah received her Certificate of Freedom (https://stors.tas.gov.au/CON40-1-5$init=CON40-1-5p306). --0--
MARRIAGE: 31 October and December 1832: Sarah Leggatt and William Hall per Dromedary applied for and received permission to marry (https://stors.tas.gov.au/CON45-1-1). 14 January, 1833: The couple was married at Sorell -- William Hall, bachelor of Pitt Water and Sarah Leggatt, spinster of Kangaroo Point. Service performed by James Norman; witnesses Edward Garth of Sandy Bay and Elizabeth Reardon of Green Hills (https://stors.tas.gov.au/RGD36-1-2p108j2k). Note: William Hall had been sentenced to transportation for life but was granted a Conditional Pardon in 1835. In November 1848, this was extended to "all Colonies" (https://stors.tas.gov.au/CON31-1-18$init=CON31-1-18p62). --0--
IN VDL: 16 May, 1826: On arrival, Sarah Leggatt, single, was listed as convict #51, sentenced to 7 years' transportation for larceny. Gaol report -- conduct good. From June 1829 to June 1830, her VDL Conduct record described several instances of so-called "insolence" to "her mistress" and others named as her "employers". --0--
TRANSCRIPT of OLD BAILEY TRIAL: 1729. SARAH LEGGETT [sic] was indicted for stealing, on the 22d of October, two sheets, value 7 s.; two blankets, value 5 s.; two pillows, value 5 s., and a table-cloth, value 18 d., the goods of Richard Haycocks, in a lodging-room. ANN HAYCOCKS. I am the wife of Richard Haycocks - we live in Collingwood-terrace, Bethnal-green . On the 17th of October I let a front parlour to the prisoner, at 6 s. a-week, ready furnished - the articles stated in the indictment were part of the furniture - she took possession of it on the 17th of October, and left on the 22d - while she was there a man came to see her, whom she called her husband - on the Tuesday after she came she wanted to exchange a blanket - I went into the room, and she pulled it out - I said "That is not the one I want" - I then missed the other articles - I asked what she had done with them, and she brought out seven duplicates. PETER PAGE. I am a pawnbroker, and live at Bethnal-green. I have a pillow pawned by the prisoner for 2 s., on the 18th of October. THOMAS BARNES. I am a pawnbroker, and live in Whitechapel-road. I have a pillow and sheet, pawned by the prisoner on the 18th of October. RICHARD VARLEY. I live with Mr. Wakefield, a pawnbroker, Mile-end-road. I have a blanket, pawned by the prisoner on the 22d of October. JOHN WOODING. I am a headborough. I took the prisoner, and have the duplicates. (Property produced and sworn to.) GUILTY. Aged 28. Transported for Seven Years (Old Bailey online at https://www.oldbaileyonline.org/). --0--
TRIAL: 27 October, 1825: Convicted at Middlesex of stealing (she said she "robbed her lodgings to get bread") (https://stors.tas.gov.au/CON40-1-5$init=CON40-1-5p306). --0--