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Crime
Transportation
Keziah Plough was transported on the Kate, departing 4th Dec 1839 and arriving 28th Dec 1839 with 10 passengers.
The schooner KATE departed South Australia on 04/12/1839 with nine prisoners of the Crown. Capt. Birkinshaw.
Kate (generic)References
| Primary Source | New South Wales, Australia, Convict Records, 1810-1891 |
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Convict Notes
Listed as Zeziah on Ancestry Convict Indents. Keziah was 19 years old, methodist, single with 1 child, 5'0¼" tall, pale complexion, brown hair, grye eyes, scar inside right side of left wrist. Native Place: London. Written on her Convict Indent: Died Parramatta Asylum 9/3/1895.
1868, 19 October: PLOUGH alias TURNER per Kate 1839, stealing, 7 years, is on a list of so-called "British Lunatics" in the "Parramatta Lunatic Asylum" (see New South Wales, Australia, Convict Records, 1810-1891).
1868, 19 October: [Keziah] PLOUGH alias TURNER per Kate 1839, stealing, 7 years, is on a list of so-called "British Lunatics" in the "Parramatta Lunatic Asylum" (see New South Wales, Australia, Convict Records, 1810-1891).
1839, 4 November: Tried and convicted in the Supreme Court Criminal Sittings, Adelaide, SA, for crimes committed on 27 October 1839 (see www.jaunay.com/cgi-bin/search-crooks.cgi). 1839, 9 November: From the South Australian Register, p6: “Supreme Court – Criminal Side… “[On 4 November] Kaziah Plough, a miserable-looking girl, apparently not in her senses, pleaded guilty to stealing two fowls belonging to J.E.Pollard, and not guilty to a charge of stealing a bonnet and veil from the house of Richard Trot, of the Sportsman’s hotel. “The evidence of Mrs Trot and Mrs Dennis showed that the prisoner was found with the bonnet and veil in her possession a few yards from Mr Trot’s house immediately after they were missed. The bonnet and veil had been taken from an open window. “The jury found a verdict of guilty; but the Judge delayed passing sentence till he had asked Dr Nash as to the state of her mind.” Keziah PLOUGH's record shows she received a sentence of transportation for seven years.
Keziah (aka Kaziah) PLOUGH was one of nine prisoners sentenced to transportation following their convictions in Adelaide, South Australia, between November 4 and 7, 1839. As the transcript of her court appearance shows, there was some question about her mental health even then. And still she was transported to New South Wales!