Lucy Brand

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Penny-Lyn Beale on 31st January 2025

Australia, Convict Index Name Lucy Wood Age 35 Birth Year Abt 1753 Arrival Year 1788 Arrival State New South Wales Trial Place Middlesex Ship Lady Penryn © 1997-2025 Ancestry 1788 - Australia, Marriage Index - P{ossible Marriage Name Lucy Wood Marriage Date 1788 Marriage Place Sydney, New South Wales Registration Date 1788 Registration Place Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Spouse; Charles Repeat Volume Number V

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Maureen Withey on 12th July 2020

Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 12 July 2020), May 1785, trial of LUCY BRAND alias WOOD (t17850511-27). LUCY BRAND, Theft > pocketpicking, 11th May 1785. 549. LUCY BRAND alias WOOD was indicted for feloniously stealing, on the 9th of May , one piece of silver coin, called half a crown, and five shillings and sixpence, the monies of Dennis Minors , privily from his person . DENNIS MINORS sworn. I was looking for a job of work, coming through a place, the woman at the bar and another woman was with her, this woman was drunk, and the other woman begged me to help her up stairs to her own room, it was in Whitechapel , I do not know the name of the street; I helped her up stairs, she then asked me to give her a drink, I gave her three-pence halfpenny for a pot of beer, and while the beer was gone for, I felt her take out my purse, and she cut the bottom out of it; she took one end of my purse out of my pocket, she strove to do it unknown to me; I was going and she came to my side, and took the purse out of my pocket, I followed her into the street and charged a constable with her; I had five and sixpence in silver, and half a crown; she cut the purse. Did you find it afterwards? - Yes. Why did not you hinder her from doing this? - I did not feel her, she run out and I followed her at the same time, I am sure of the woman, I am but a poor labouring man , she did not leave me two pence for my lodging, and I hope the Gentlemen will look upon me. BENJAMIN NASH sworn. Last Monday at noon time, I was going by George-yard, and I heard a number of people, and I went and found the prisoner in an empty room, I says to her knowing her before, Luce, where is the money, you have the money; I could not find any at all but a few halfpence, she was locked up, says they, now she has a shilling in her hand; I then searched her again, and then found a shilling and a sixpence in her hand, and then I found four shillings and sixpence more concealed. PRISONER's DEFENCE. I met this man, and he followed me up stairs, he was in liquor, and we was all almost in liquor, my husband wanted some money to drink, and I concealed it, I put the money in the tail of my shift. GUILTY. To be privately whipped and imprisoned one year. Tried by the first Middlesex Jury before Mr. RECORDER. --------------------------------------------------- Soon after the end of her period of imprisonment, Lucy was convicted again, and this time she was sentenced to be transported. --------------------------------------------------- Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 12 July 2020), July 1786, trial of LUCY BRAND , otherwise WOOD (t17860719-42). LUCY BRAND, Theft > grand larceny, 19th July 1786. 603. LUCY BRAND, otherwise WOOD , was indicted for feloniously stealing, on the 7th day of June , one gold ring, value 5 s. three guineas, value 3 l. 3 s. two pieces of base metal, value 2 d. the property of Francis Stearnes . FRANCIS STEARNES sworn. I cannot speak to the prisoner, one person may be very much like another; I was robbed of one guinea in gold which I thought was weight, and two light guineas, and one gold ring, and two base metal shillings; I am very clear the prisoner took it out of my pocket. Is that the woman that robbed you of your property? - Yes, it is, I know her now I come to look at her again. Then you do swear to her? - Yes; it was down in Mill yard, Rosemary lane; I had been at a society to the Seven Stars in Whitechapel, which I belong to, and was coming away about twelve, and in about twenty yards of the house I came from I happened to see the prisoner, and she appeared to be very much intosticated in liquor; I said I suppose you have been holiday making, she said yes, she said she lived in Rosemary-lane; I said I will go along with you; she took hold of my arm; we went down into Rosemary-lane; she asked a watchman for Mill-yard, and offered him twopence to shew her home; he went with her; I wanted to depart, she said, no, go and see me home; she gave the watchman three halfpence, and he went away; I wanted to come away then, but she said no, come in for a minute, so I went into the passage, and as soon as I got into the passage she took and flounced the door, but whether it locked or not I cannot say, she instantly caught me round the waist with one hand, and put the other hand into my pocket, I caught hold of her hand, and said I would not be robbed, the watchman hearing me say so, came in and asked me what that woman had robbed me of, I told him of one guinea which I thought was weight, and two light guineas, and two base metal shillings, and a gold ring, that was what she took from me. Did the watchman find them upon he? - He did. The WATCHMAN sworn. I went to the door of this woman's house, I heard a noise, I will call the watch, I went up and stood right opposite the door, which was wide open, I heard the prosecutor say, he would not be robbed, I went in, he told me he had hold of the prisoner's hand, with that I says to her, Madam if you please to let me see what you have got there? says she, I will not; says I, I insist upon it; I laid hold of her hand; when she found I was resolute, she said hold your hand, she threw the money into my right hand, it fell down, I immediately searched for it, and picked up three guineas, one guinea was George the Third, which seemed to be very good, two of them were George the Second, which looked very dull, there were two brass shillings, and a gold ring; another watchman came to my assistance, there was another party along with her. PRISONER's DEFENCE. As I was going down Red-Lion-street, the prosecutor followed me, he was very much in liquor, I had been drinking myself; I told him where I lived, and asked him to go and see me home; he wanted to lay me down in the passage, and I would not, I said to him, if you will go up stairs with me I will do any thing that decency will allow of; and in pulling me about the money fell out of his pocket. GUILTY. Transported for seven years. Tried by the second Middlesex Jury before Mr. Justice ASHURST.