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Harriet Neat

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Summary

Born

Jan 1797

Conviction

Theft - larceny

Departure

May 1817

Arrival

Jan 1818

Death

Jan 1870

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Personal Information

Name: Harriet Neat

Gender: Female

Born: 1st Jan 1797

Death: 1st Jan 1870

Age at death: 73

Occupation: Unknown

Crime

Crime: Theft - larceny

Convicted at: Bristol (City) Quarter Sessions

Sentence term: 7 years

Voyage

Departed: 31st May 1817

Ship: Friendship

Arrival: 14th Jan 1818

Place of Arrival: New South Wales

Transportation

Harriet Neat was transported on the Friendship, departing 31st May 1817 and arriving 14th Jan 1818 with 102 passengers.

This convict ship, being 274 tons and 75 feet long was one of the light weight ships in the fllet and was skippered by Master Francis Walton. Built in Scarborough in 1784, she carried 76 male and 21 female convicts. During her return voyage to England her crew came down with scurvy and with insufficient crew to man her, she was scuttled in the straights of Macassar. The survivors were transferred to the Alexander.

Friendship

References

Primary Source

Bristol Records Office UK,Sessions minute book 13 January 1817. Bristol Mirror 18 January 1817 newspaper report of trial. Ancestry England & Wales, Criminal Registers, 1791-1892. Ancestry Australian Convict Transportation Registers -other fleets & ships 1791-1868

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Convict Notes

on 12th July 2023

Harriet was born at Bristol in 1797, and baptised on 13 June 1798 - Gloucestershire, England, church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials 1538 - 1813

State Library of Queensland on 26th September 2016

Harriet was found guilty of stealing 5 straw bonnets to the value of 25 shillings. Transported to Van Diemans Land via NSW in 1818. She married and bore to children to her husband William Davis a former convict.