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Mary Newton was transported on the Lady Juliana, departing 31st May 1789 and arriving 3rd Jun 1790 with 247 passengers.
Launched 1777, 401 ton barque, built at Whitby, England. Departed Portsmouth, England on 29 July 1789, via Cape of Good Hope for Port Jackson, New South Wales, Australia on 3 June 1790. 1790 voyage carried 226 female passengers (convicts)- 5 of whom died on the trip. 6 children also on board. Significant because it was the first ship to bring all female women to the Colony.
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Family connections for Mary (Newton) are: NEWTON Mary (Newton) was born about 1765. She was tried for stealing goods of Messrs. (Barrs) drapers in Birmingham Warwickshire at Warwick Summer Assizes on 7 8 1787, sentenced to death commuted to 7years & arrived in NSW as a convict on 3 6 1790 after a voyage of 12months on First Fleet ship LADY JULIANA-a ship with 228females who easily entertained the whole crew & also sailors at Teneriffe stopover. She married firstly Patrick (Byrne his second marriage) on 29 7 1790 at St Phillips CofE Sydney & perhaps produced a child. She lost her dwelling-hut when it was burnt down during the revelry of the Irish wake for her husband in 1791. She continued the busines of baker & victualler in Sydney until February 1807 when she left the colony.>>> [Some details taken from this Website] Patrick (Burn/s/Byrne) was born probably in Ireland about 1761/71 & became a baker/pastry cook. He was tried for highway robbery at Devon Assizes Exeter Devonshire on 11 8 1783, sentenced to death reprieved to 7years. He was apparantly sent to American colonies on 30 7 1784 on MERCURY, from which he would have returned to UK after mutiny on the ship achieved landfall at Torbay/Torquay? Devonshire & probably captured there. He would have been tried for the mutiny, held on hulk DUNKIRK at Plymouth Harbour & arrived in NSW as a convict on 21 1 1788 after a voyage of 8months on First Fleet ship FRIENDSHIP. He was employed as a baker. He had a first relationship with Ann (Smith her second (2of3) relationship). He was an emancipist when he died on 13 7 1791 age about30 father of perhaps 2children; his dwelling-hut was burnt down during the revelry of an Irish wake. [Some details taken from this Website] .. >>>Mary (Newton) returned to NSW, arriving free (shown as convict in Smees records) on 16 12 1810 on INDIAN. She married secondly George (Parsons his first marriage) musician on 1 4 1811 at St Phillips CofE Sydney. She was an emancipist when she died on 3 5 1811 age about45 mother of perhaps 1child & was buried at St Phillips CofE Sydney. George (Nevill/e/Parsons) was tried for passing forged notes at Southampton Assizes Hampshire in July 1789, sentenced to death reprieved to Life & arrived in NSW as a convict on 16 12 1810 after a voyage of 5.5months on INDIAN. He married secondly Mary Jane (Boscock) on 27 7 1811 at St Phillips CofE Sydney. [Some details taken from this Website] Mary Jane (Boscock) may or may not have been a convict. Noted a Mary Ann (Parsons), wife of a publican, died on 12 4 1840 & was buried on 14 4 1840 at SLS. Noted a George (Parsons) married Margaret (Carnie) on 21 9 1840 at GEEL. Reference: Craig James Smee 'Births and Baptisms Marriages and Defacto Relationships Deaths and Burials New South Wales 1788-1830' ..a complete listing from church & other records in the early colony.
The Assizes for this County ended at Warwick, when the nine following Prisoners were capitally convicted, several of whom are very old Offenders, viz. … Mary Newton for privately stealing Goods out of the Shop of Messrs. Barrs, Drapers, in this Town. George Whittal, Charles Hunt, John Nicholls, and John Wilmot, are left for Execution; the others are reprieved. Oxford Journal, 11 Aug 1787.
National Archives. HO 47/6/88 1787 Aug 8 Certificate/memorial of William Henry Ashhurst on prisoners capitally convicted on the Midland Circuit, but 'some favourable Circumstances' appeared on/after their trial and recommended to mercy on the condition set against their names: Warwickshire Summer Assizes at Warwick Mary Newton, for shoplifting. 7 years transportation.
Mary Newton, tried on the 7 Aug 1787 at Warwick Assizes for privately stealing goods from a shop at Birmingham, sentenced to death but later commuted to 7 years transportation. Mary married Patrick Burn on 29 July 1790 at St Phillips Sydney. When her husband died in July 1791 she held a wake for him which was attended by a number of his fellow Irishmen. The hut was burnt down during the revelry. Mary had a business as a baker and victualler in Sydney and in February 1807 left the colony and returned in 1810 on the 'Indian' as a free settler. In 1811 she married George Parsons a musician on 1 April 1811 at St Phillips Sydney and died a month later.