Margaret Nolan

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New South Wales, Australia, Registers of Convicts' Applications to Marry, 1826-1851 Granted 7/6/1841 Margaret Nolan 41 Bond (7yrs) granted to marry Samuel Smith 45 Free by servitude (7yrs) per ship Glory The Rev H R Gilchrist Campbelltown

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New South Wales, Australia, Certificates of Freedom, 1810-1814, 1827-1867. (NRS 12210) Butts of Certificates of Freedom 1847 March 29. No 47/309. Wife of Samuel Smith per ship Glory. Free by servitude

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Old Bailey Online 25/11/1839 152a. WILLIAM WOODWARD and MARGARET NOLAN were indicted for stealing, on the 5th of November, 1 pair of stockings, value 1s.; 18 sovereigns, and 2 half-crowns, the property of Arthur Hodson, from his person. ARTHUR HODSON . I am an inmate of West Ham Workhouse. On the 5th of November I went to the Green Dragon public-house. Bishopsgate-street, and received 18 sovereigns and 18s. 6d. there, between twelve and one o'clock—I put the sovereigns in a bag in my left hand pocket, and wrapped the silver in a bit of rag, and put it in my right hand pocket—Iwent into a cook-shop to get a bit of dinner, and met a woman there—I gave her a bit of pudding, and after dinner went to get a pint of beer—I went to Hen-row, Mile-end-road; and at last to Blue-gate-fields—I there found the prisoner Woodward—I wanted a lodging, and asked him for one—I am certain he is the man—I went to his house—my money was in my pocket I am certain when I went there—I went to bed there—I do not know the time—I went to sleep for a short time, and Woodward went down stairs and left me—there was nobody else in the room I was put into at first, but he brought me down from the second floor to the first floor, where there was a fire—I was dressed then—he undressed me—there was a woman: in the first-floor room—I said very little to her—I did not see her hardly—I should know her again—it was not Nolan—I did not know Woodward before, but I had been rambling about, and did not know where to go—between six and seven o'clock in the evening, I believe, I missed my money and asked him for it—he told me he would take care of me and money and all—that was after I had told him I missed it—he then went away—I stopped there a bit, and got a policeman at last—I have never got my money. Cross-examined by MR. PAYNE. Q. Did you go alone to Woodward's house, or did the woman you gave the pudding to go with you? A. I fell down against his door, and he came and picked me up—I was the worse for liquor—I did not see the woman I gave the pudding to there—I could see a little—I did not see the female prisoner at all in the house. GEORGE PAVITT (police-constable K 260.) On the night in question I was coming along Back-road about nine o'clock, and heard the two prisoners quarrelling together a very little way from St. George's-fields—I heard Woodward say to Nolan, "Where is that money you have planted"—she said something, and then Woodward hit her in the face, and she called," Police," and I took them both to the station-house—I asked her about the money—she said there was a man at her house lodging there, and Woodward had got nine sovereigns from him—he was present, and said, "I had nine sovereigns, I put them in the drawer, and the drawer was broken open"—I went to the house to see if I could find the prosecutor, but could not—I returned, and Woodward went with me to the house—I went up stairs and found the prosecutor there before the fire, and a woman along with him named Mary Parker—I asked him if he had lost any money—he said, "Yes, eighteen sovereigns"—we searched the house, but could not find the money—Woodward and the prosecutor went down to the station-house together, and Woodward said to him, "Don't make any noise about the money, I will make it up to you"—I returned to the house again—I could not find any money, but I found a pair of stockings, which the prosecutor identified, in a drawer down stairs—the prosecutor said, "That is the man that took my money, he took my money from me"—Woodward said, "I know I did, and I put it in the drawer, but it is gone"—Woodward's house is a lodging-house for sailors—Nolan lives with him as his wife—I went to several places and to a beer-shop in Blue-gate-fields, and asked if any money was left there—they said no—Woodward asked the landlord if his wife had left any money there, he said no—we went to the Angel, he asked if his wife had left any there, they said no—she had bought a bonnet for 1s. 6d. Cross-examined. Q. Where were you standing when you heard the quarrel? A. On the other side of the road—she gave him in charge—the first I heard was Woodward say, "Where is the money?"—Nolan did not speak first—I heard Nolan say to Woodward, "You have robbed me of nine sovereigns which the man left in my care in the house"—that was the first beginning of it, and after that he accused her of it. COURT. Q. Did you hear her say "I have planted it?" A. Yes. DANIEL DERRIG . I am a police-sergeant. The prisoners were brought to the station-house—I heard Woodward say to Nolan, "What a pretty mess we shall be in if the old man comes up and says he has lost the eighteen sovereigns that he had this morning"—she afterwards told me that when quarrelling in the street, Woodward had scratched her bosom, and taken five or six shillings from her. Cross-examined. Q. Where did you overhear this conversation, in the cell? A. No, outside in the office—they could see me—they did not speak it openly, they retired to a corner, but I overheard them—I did not draw near to them to hear—they spoke loud enough for me to hear—one was accusing the other, and they were wrangling about it—he was sober—she had been drinking. GEORGE PAVITT (re-examined.) I heard Woodward say he had put the money in the drawer, and the drawer was broken open; but it was not broken open at all—he showed me the drawer, I unlocked and examined it—it was not damaged or broken open at all. Woodward. When you tried the drawer, the top had been wrenched down—this knife was lying on the top—I took it off and put it on the table—the drawer had been opened with that knife. Witness. The drawer was shut and locked, and I unlocked it—it did not appear as if a knife had opened it. JOSEPH SAUNDERS . I keep an oil and colour shop in High-street, Shad well. On the night in question, Woodward came to my shop, and bought two shoe brushes and a few trifling articles, which came to 2s.—he gave me a half-sovereign. DANIEL DERRIG (re-examined.) I was before Mr. Broderip, the magistrate, and saw him sign the statement of the prisoners'—(looking at if)—this is his hand-writing—it was read over to them—(read.) (The prisoner Nolan's statement represented that the prosecutor came to their house very much intoxicated, in company with a female with whom he went up stairs; that Woodward saw them up, and afterwards came down, unlocked a drawer and put something in, but what she did not know; he afterwards went out with the female for about two hours, and on his return accused her (Nolan) of having taken, the money from the drawers, of which she was quite innocent, not knowing any thing about it, or what he had put there.) (The prisoner Woodward's statement was that the prosecutor, who was very drunk, gave him his purse, containing 9 sovereigns, 2 half-crowns, 1s. 6d., and 7d. in halfpence, to take care of; that he put it into one of the drawers, which he locked; he then went out to get some supper, and on his return, the prosecutor wanting his money, he found the drawer broken open, and the money gone; he immediately accused Nolan of taking it, and on her denying it, he followed her till he met a policeman, when she was searched, and 4s. 6d. only found on her; that the female who was in company with the prosecutor had been with him all day; that she had been to a great number of public-houses with him, and had said he had plenty of money a bout him.) ARTHUR HODSON (re-examined.) I cannot exactly say what time It was that Woodward had my money—it was about seven o'clock, or between seven and eight o'clock—he said he would take care of it for me—I am quite sure I did not take out any gold after I received it, before I went to the prisoner's house—I did not want it, for I had some silver in my righthand pocket, wrapped up in a bit of rag. Woodward's Defence. When he came to my house, I was standing at the door—a woman picked him up twice—he was tipsy and could not walk—I helped her up with him the third time, and she begged me to bring him into my house to have a cup of tea and put him to bed—she said he was her father—I took him into the house and sat him down—he would not have tea. but she begged me to get him up to bed, which I did—he could scarcely undress himself or stand—I undressed him—she said she had been with him all the day to different public-houses; he had a good gold bit of money and I need not be afraid of his paying—she showed me a ring which he had bought her for 14s.—I said, "Before you go out of the room I wish to see what money he has about him"—it was a good while before he could find any—at last he found a bag in his pockets—he gave it to me, and I shook out 9 sovereigns, 2 half-crowns, 1s., and 7d—I looked at ft and said, "It is right enough" and I would take care of it for him—he gave me a half-crown to fetch a pint of rum, which I brought, and he gave us both some—the rest stood in the chair when he awoke—he laid awake about two hours—I came up and looked at him—he looked almost dead—I came down and said, "That man looks very ill indeed, you had better Come up and look at him"—the woman said, "No, it is only through drinking hard all day"—I went up afterwards, and asked if he wanted any thing—I said, "Your money is right, down stairs in the bag," and when he found what was in it, he said, "That woman must hate taken it"—I put the money in my drawer, and when he asked for it, it was gone—I had several people in the house, down stairs, where the drawers were—I made a row about it, and two Women went down the Highway—I went to look for a policeman, but could not find any—I inquired at a house if any money had been changed, but could not hear any tiling of it—Nolan had 6s. 6d. in her bosom, and that was all—I hate had 120l. since the 20th of May, which the female prisoner had left her by relatives, and we laid out 20l. in goods—I have been 36 yearn in the service of King George and William the Fourth—I have only lately come to London from Portsmouth—nothing of the kind ever happened in my house before—we came to London on account of having this money left us, and it is not settled now—it is impossible he could have brought 18 sovereigns into my house when he was along with that woman all day, treating her to the belt of every thing. ARTHUR HODSON re-examined. Q. Before you went into the room, had you been with any woman? A. I saw a woman coming down the street—I had not been with her particularly—I treated her with part of a pint of beer in Mile End-road, but I had not put my hand into the pocket where my money was at all, nor had she. Woodward. Q. Did you not fall asleep in a public-house by the side of her? A. No. WOODWARD— GUILTY NOLAN— GUILTY . Judgment Respited.

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New South Wales, Australia, Convict Indents, 1788-1842 From London single protestant who could read. Tried 25/11/1839. 4' 9" ruddy and much freckled brown hair dark hazel eyes.