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Mary Williams was transported on the Northampton, departing 30th Nov 1814 and arriving 18th Jun 1815 with 112 passengers.
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| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 87, Class and Piece Number HO11/2, Page Number 191 (97) |
| 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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The following case at the Old Bailey was that of Mary's daughter, 13 year old Eliza, who was also sentenced to death, reprieved , and then also transported to NSW per Northampton.
Tried at the Old Bailey, 20 April 1814. 287. MARY WILLIAMS was indicted for that she, at the General Sessions of peace, holding for the County of Middlesex, on the 15th of February, in the 53rd year of his majesty's reign, was tried and convicted of being a common utterer of false money, and was sentenced to be imprisoned for one year in his Majesty's goal of Newgate, and to find sureties for good behaviour for two years; and that she afterwards on the 15th of March last, one piece of false, counterfeit, money made to the likeness of a good shilling, unlawfully did utter to one Mary Holman . JOSIAH GILL SEWELL . I am one of the clerks to the Solicitor of the mint. I produce a copy of the record of the conviction of the prisoner; I examined it with the record; it is correct. (Read.) WILLIAM BEEBY . I am clerk to Mr. Newport, the keeper of New Prison. Q. Do you know the person of the prisoner - A. Perfectly well; I have known her the last six or seven years. I was in court when she was tried and convicted for uttering counterfeit money, she was ordered to be committed to Newgate for one year, and to find sureties for good behaviour for two years more; she was sent to Newgate in execution of that judgment. MARY HOLMAN . I live at the King's Arms, Duke-street, Grosvener-square. On the 15th of March, the prisoner came to our house; a girl and another woman was with her. Q. Who keeps the King's Arms - A. Thomas Bird , my brother-in-law. Q. Are you quite sure as to the person of the prisoner - A. Yes, I am quite sure. They came to get something to drink, I believe it was gin; I do not recollect which of them asked for it. One of them asked for it; my brother gave them a glass of gin. Mr. Johnson, the officer, came in at the time. I believe they all drank; the prisoner paid me for the liquor. Before the shilling was paid me Johnson came in. I took the shilling and gave it to my brother, Bird; he and Johnson marked the shilling. I am sure the shilling I received of the prisoner I gave to my brother, Bird. THOMAS BIRD . I am brother-in-law to the last witness. Q. Do you remember your sister giving you a shilling - A. Yes. Q. Do you remember seeing the prisoner, a girl, and the other woman in your shop - A. I did. I examined the shilling; I desired them to change the shilling, but Johnson being present he desired me to keep it; I did. I marked the shilling before I parted with it. Johnson desired me to assist him in taking them into a room that he might search them; which I did. I kept the shilling in my hand which my sister gave me, and the woman gave my sister. I saw them all searched. Mrs. Williams was first searched; at the time she was searched I heard something drop from her daughter; on hearing something drop Johnson, the officer, in my presence turned and picked up a paper parcel containing bad shillings; Johnson picked it up by the daughter's leg: the mother was about five feet distance from the girl. Johnson returned to the mother again, and searched her, and found a quantity of bad coin; how much I cannot say. Q. I wish to know when you parted with the shilling that you received of your sister - A. I parted with it the same evening to Johnson, the officer. I marked it before I parted with it. BENJAMIN JOHNSON . I am an officer. Q. Do you know the woman at the bar - A. I do; I have known her about a week before she was taken in custody. On the 15th of March, about four o'clock in the afternoon, I observed the prisoner, her daughter, and another woman, in St. Giles's; I followed them up Tottenham-court-road, and proceeded into Duke-street, Grosvener-square; I observed in my journey something in their hands. I saw them do a thing that I can describe before they came to Mr. Bird's house. I saw them take some money out of a paper and teare the paper, and chuck it in the street. Q. Could you sufficiently discover that it was money - A. I saw it was something white; I was not near enough to discover it was money. Q. From whom did that pass that you supposed to be money - A. From the prisoner. I saw them all go into Mr. Bird's house; I followed them in. Q. Did you give any information to Miss Holman - A. I desired her to deal with them if they were so disposed. When I went in I heard the prisoner ask for something to drink, and saw her tender a shilling for the gin; Mr. Bird refused the shilling; the prisoner said, sir, it cannot be a bad one, take it to the light and look. Q. Do you know what the gin came to - A. No. Mr. Bird. The glass of gin and a glass of mixed spirits came to sixpence halfpenny. Johnson. I told Mr. Bird when he came into the light in the tap-room to keep the shilling, and I would go out and bring the prisoners into the taproom and search them. I brought the prisoners into the tap-room and searched them. In the first place I produce the shilling I received of Mr. Bird; he marked it, and I marked it; this is the shilling. I proceeded to search the prisoner at the bar, but hearing something fall from the girl I left the mother and picked the parcel up, which laid close by the girl's feet; the paper parcel contained four bad shillings. These are the four bad shillings; they have been in my custody ever since. At the time the parcel fell from the girl the prisoner was as far from the girl as I am from Mr. Shelton. I then proceeded on to search the mother; in the prisoner's pocket among some halfpence I found fifteen bad shillings, and two bad sixpences, two shillings good, one shilling and ten pennyworth of halfpence, and two good sixpences. I then went to search the girl; she requested to warm her hands; upon my going to the table I found a shilling close by. Q. to Miss Holman. Is that the shilling that you gave to your brother - A. I cannot say; I gave but one shilling. Mr. Bird. That is the shilling that I received of my sister; I marked it, and the officer marked it. MR. NICOLL. I am one of the moniers of his Majesty's Mint. Q. I now put into your hand the shilling uttered by the prisoner to Miss Holman - A. It is a counterfeit; it is quite fresh finished. Q. to Johnson. Shew the fifteen counterfeit shillings to Mr. Nicoll. (Johnson handed them to Mr. Nicoll.) Mr. Nicoll. The fifteen shillings and the two sixpences are all counterfeits; they are of the same manufactory, and these that dropped from the girl are counterfeits, and of the same sort. Prisoner's Defence. Distress caused me to infringe upon the laws of my country. GUILTY - DEATH , aged 40. First Middlesex jury, before Mr. Baron Graham .
1815 - St. John's Parramatta, Marriages No; 491. William Coles. Free, Age; 50. of the Parish of St Johns & Mary Williams. Prisoner [age] 40. Ship; Northampton Married in the Church by Banns. 17 October 1815 Clergyman; Samuel Marsden Date; 17 October 1815 1820 - Servant to Mr. Randall. In the Colony