Martha Sadler

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Maureen Withey on 22nd March 2020

1828 Census at Parramatta, Government Factory. Mary Sadler, age 15, Brothers 1827, 7 years, catholic.

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Maureen Withey on 21st March 2020

Irish Convict Database, by Peter Mayberry. Martha or Mary Sadler, age 18, per Brothers (2) 1827, tried at Dublin, 1826, 7 years sentence, stealing watch, 2 former convictions, Native of Dublin, catholic, servant house nurse maid, single, 1 child on board, DOB 1809. ---------------------------------------------------- Recorder's Court - Wednesday - Martha Saddler was next put to the bar, charged with stealing a gold watch with suitable appendages, from Wm. Kernan, Esq., Mr. Kernan deposed his having met a female in Capel Street, who after accosting him, took his watch, which, when produced, he identified; he admitted that he was in an inebriated state, to which he attributed his present inability to identify the heroine at the bar as the person with whom he had an interview; he also stated, that he did not feel a hand near his pocket; but that in five minutes after his conversation wit the woman whom he met, he missed his watch. James Power one of the Police Cavalry, stated that on the morning of the 7th inst., when passing through Francis street a group of suspicious persons, in deep and private conversation, arrested his attention; after which he at a distance, followed them up to Thomas Street, where a man named Hetherington, in company with the prisoner, entered a corner shop, and tendered for sale a gold watch, which witness, with some difficulty, wrested from him and conveyed both him the prisoner at the bar and the watch to Arran Quay Police Office, from whence they were committed to Newgate after the watch was claimed by the last witness. The jury, without a moment's hesitation found the prisoner guilty who was then sentenced to transportation for seven years. Hetherington convicted of receiving the said watch, was then sentence to twelve months imprisonment. - Freeman's Journal 30th March 1826