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Voyage
Transportation
Mary Pugh was transported on the Mermaid, departing 15th Feb 1828 and arriving 27th Jun 1828 with 99 passengers.
Mermaid (generic)References
| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 89, Class and Piece Number HO11/6, Page Number 314 |
| 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 |
Claims
"My 4th GGM - Interesting character."
"My 3rd GGMother... with one of many names... :)"
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Convict Notes
Marriage Record https://libraries.tas.gov.au/Digital/RGD37-1-8/RGD37-1-8P42 George Burt, age 29, Farm servant, and Maria Ellis, age 35, widow, married at Parish Church Swansea, June 11 1849. Marriage Reg: https://libraries.tas.gov.au/Digital/RGD37-1-20/RGD37-1-20P55 Robert Halliday/Holliday, age 38, Labourer, and Maria Burt, aged 47, widow, married at the parish church Swansea, 3 Jan 1861. SUPREME COURT, OATLANDS. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1. (Before His Honor the Chief Justice.) Patrick. McMahon, pass-holder, was convicted of a felonious assault upon a girl of tender years, and sentenced to death. The case was conducted by Mr. Macdowell (who acted for the Attorney-General) in an impartial and impressive manner. The prisoner on being sentenced protested his innocence, but expressed himself perfectly satisfied with his trial. Maria Burt, mother of the child upon which the felonious assault was committed in the first case, and who has been out on bail, surrendered to take her trial on a charge of stealing £30 from Mrs. Welland, a publican's wife at Swanport. It was a singular case, and excited no little interest, because it was generally thought that as she had borrowed the money, a charge of felony could not be supported against her. It appears that the husband of the prisoner resided (having quarrelled with his wife) at the house of the prosecutrix, that the prisoner went to the house, and under pretext that she wished to be reconciled to her husband, induced Mrs. Welland to lend her £30, just to show him for a few minutes. Mrs. Welland complied with her request, the prisoner did see her husband, but left the house with the money. As she did not return, however, the Chief District Constable was sent for, and a search-warrant having been procured, £28 of the money was found concealed under the bed. The prisoner, whose husband is since gone to Port Phillip, has six children to maintain. She was convicted and sentenced to 3 months' imprisonment and hard labour. The Courier, 13 Oct 1852. OATLANDS. The following cases are for trial at the Oatlands Sitting of the Supreme Court; … Maria Burt, free by servitude, and William Gest, ticket-of-leave, from Swanport, for felony. The Courier, 23 Sep 1854. Oatlands Supreme Court. Friday, September 28. Maria Bent (sic) and William Seat (sic) were acquitted upon an information charging them with stealing from the person. The Courier, 30 Sept 1854.
Marriage Permissions. https://libraries.tas.gov.au/Digital/CON45-1-1/CON45-1-1P029 John Ellis, per L. Harewood, and Maria Pugh, per Mermaid, Dates of permissions: 19 Nov 1831, & 28 Nov 1831. Marriage Record: https://libraries.tas.gov.au/Digital/RGD36-1-2/RGD36-1-2P41 John Ellis, convict of this parish, bachelor, per Lady Harewood, and Mary Pugh, convict of this parish, spinster, per Mermaid, were married at Hobart Town, 4 June 1832. Baptisms of children Born 1 Sep 1832, bap 21 April 1833, at Hobart Town, James Ellis, son of John Ellis and Maria. Father Blacksmith, Born 7 July 1840, Sarah Ellis, bap 26 July 1840 at Hobart Town, daughter of John and Maria Ellis. Blacksmith. FATAL ACCIDENT.-Four Men Drowned. Intelligence has reached us of the most melancholy loss of four men, holding tickets-of-leave, who were drowned in the Swan River, in the Great Swan Port district, about three weeks ago ; the poor men had proceeded in a dingy, and not returning, search was made, when one of them, named JohnFolkard, was discovered jammed between some logs in the river, and quite dead; the names of the others missing are William Evans, Richard Law, and John Ellis, who has left a wife and seven young children totally unprovided for - the others were single men. Colonial Times, 23 June 1848.
The Proceedings of the Old Bailey Alias Mary. Born 1809. Place of birth Woolwich. Gender female. Hair brown (dark brown). Eyes hazel (dark hazel, long eyelashes). MARY ANN MILLER. MARY PUGH. Theft; simple larceny (from 1827). 25th October 1827. 2161. MARY ANN MILLER and MARY PUGH were indicted for stealing, on the 19th of October , 1 ring, value 14s. , the goods of Don William Nathaniel Tuck . MILLER - GUILTY . Aged 17. PUGH - GUILTY . Aged 18. Transported for Seven Years . https://www.oldbaileyonline.org/record/t18271025-184?text=pugh 1833 - Convict Muster. Assistant to Luit Sumnan?
No; 58. Offence; Stealing a ring in a shop Father; David Pugh, works at Elliott's cowhouse, Old Kent Road. 18 years there. Last lived with her father & mother. Status; Single. Protestant UX - Ellis
Baptised as Maria Pugh, daughter of David and Eleanor Pugh on 4 June 1809 at St Mary Magdalene Church, Woolwich, Kent. Maria Pugh was transported on the Mermaid to Van Diemens Land, not NSW. Married John Ellis in Hobart on 4 June 1832. Married George Burt at Swansea, Tasmania on 11 June 1849. Married Robert Halliday at Swansea on 3 January 1861.