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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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Convict Notes
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.