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Isabella Oldfield was transported on the Friendship, departing 13th May 1787 and arriving 21st Jan 1788 with 107 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.
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Isabella Oldfield was tried at Manchester, Lancashire on 20 July 1786 for stealing pieces of material with a value of 1 shilling. She was sentenced to transportation for 7 years and left England on the Friendship aged about 25 at that time (May 1787), and she died in 1789. Partner in the original crime was brother Thomas Oldfield.