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Transportation
Mary Lang was transported on the Mermaid, departing 15th Feb 1828 and arriving 27th Jun 1828 with 99 passengers.
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| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 89, Class and Piece Number HO11/6, Page Number 313 (158) CON19-1-13 Image 471 |
| 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
Old Bailey Online MARY LANG. Theft; simple larceny (from 1827). 13th September 1827 Text type Trial account Defendants MARY LANG Offences Theft > Simple larceny Session Date 13th September 1827 Reference Number t18270913-141 Verdicts Guilty Punishments Transportation 1729. MARY LANG was indicted for stealing, on the 15th of August , 1 piece of gold, of the value of 10s.; 1 sovereign, and 3 pieces of foreign silver coin, value 4s. 6d. , the property of Michael Moore . MICHAEL MOORE . I am a sailor , and Italian . I came here in the Saucy Jack, and have got no ship since. On the 15th of August, about eleven o'clock at night, I was in White's-yard; I met the prisoner, who took me to a house - I was very tired - I took off my jacket, and put it on a chair. I had some foreign gold and silver in the pocket - I fell on the bed, and went to sleep directly - she was then in the room. I awoke in about half an hour, and saw her over-hauling my things; I jumped out of bed, felt my pocket, and the money was gone; she put the money into her mouth; I tried to get it out, but could not. I called the watchman, who came; she then said, "I give charge of this man for ill-using me:" I said, "I give charge of this woman for robbing me;" I did not find all my money there was 9s. 6d. taken from her mouth at the watch-house. I lost all the rest - I had not given her any thing - I was to pay her for the night's lodging certainly, but it was not agreed what. I lost one sovereign, and some Columbian money, and 9s. 6d. in silver. CHRISTOPHER WARD . I heard the cry of Murder! and Watch! - I went to the room, and the prisoner said, "I give charge of this man for ill-using me;" and he said, "You have got 1l. 14s. 6d. English money of mine, and if you don't give it me, he shall take you to the watch-house." I took them both to the watch-house - I saw no silver but what the prosecutor had in his hand, and which he said he got from her month - her mouth was bleeding - they were quarrelling together. JOHN DANGATE . I was the watch-house keeper. The prisoner was brought to me, and the prosecutor accused her of robbing him of 14s. 6d., one sovereign, two quarter-dollars, and one half-dollar - the prisoner said she had not got any thing upon her person. I searched her, and found in the left side of her mouth (which was bleeding) 9s. 6d. in silver, and there was sixpenny worth of copper in her hand; this half-dollar, and two quarter-dollars, the prosecutor gave me, and told me he took them out of her left hand. Prisoner. When he got up into the room he asked me for a light, and said he thought he had lost some money - he pulled out a 5l. note, and said, "Some of those girls in the public-house have robbed me;" I said, "Recollect you have not lost it here;" and then he sent me for something to drink, and gave me 6s. I did not rob him - he was asleep above an hour; and if I had been disposed to rob him, I should have taken all his money. GUILTY . Aged 23. Transported for Fourteen Years .