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Voyage
Transportation
Jane Sanders 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
| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 87, Class and Piece Number HO11/1, Page Number 18 |
| Source Description | This record is one of the entries in the British convict transportation registers 1787-1867 database compiled by State Library of Queensland from British Home Office (HO) records which are available on microfilm as part of the Australian Joint Copying Pro |
| Original Source | Great Britain. Home Office |
| Compiled By | State Library of Queensland |
| Database Source | British convict transportation registers 1787-1867 database |
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Convict Notes
Old Bailey Online JANE SANDERS. LEWIS SANDERS. Theft; theft from a specified place. 12th December 1787. Text type Trial account Defendants JANE SANDERS, LEWIS SANDERS Offences Theft > Theft from place Session Date 12th December 1787 Reference Number t17871212-64 Verdicts Not guilty, Guilty Punishments Transportation 69. LEWIS SANDERS and JANE his wife , alias JANE NORRIS , were indicted, for that they, on the 20th of April , did take away, with intent to steal, imbezzle and purloin, three check curtain, value 6 s. a bolster, value 5 s. a looking-glass, value 2 s. a tea kettle, value 1 s. a candlestick, value 6 d. the property of Magdalen Hunter , in a lodging room . The prisoner Jane pawned the things. LEWIS SAUNDERS , NOT GUILTY . JANE SAUNDERS , GUILTY . Transported for seven years . Tried by the second Middlesex Jury before Mr. Justice HEATH.