Summary
Personal Information
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Voyage
Transportation
Ann Poor 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.
Lady JulianaReferences
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Convict Notes
National Archives. HO 47/6/71 1787 Certificate/memorial of Henry Gould and Alexander Thomson on several convicts attainted and for whom 'some favourable Circumstances' appeared after their trial and now recommended for mercy on the conditions set against their names: Kent Assizes at Maidstone, 19 March 1787 1. Ann Doyle and Ann Poor, for a burglary and stealing goods, value 20/-, from the house of Benjamin Shepherd. Recommendation: 7 years transportation.
Ann Poor, sentenced to death for burglary but later commuted to 7 years transportation in Mar 1787 at Maidstone Kent. Sent to Norfolk Island in Aug 1790 she cohabited with John Black Caesar (John Casar). In 1792 John Black Caesar's daughter was born and baptized as Mary Ann Fisher Power in 1806,