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Voyage
Transportation
Mary Saunders was transported on the Experiment, departing 21st Jan 1809 and arriving 25th Jun 1809 with 62 passengers.
568 ton ship
Experiment (generic)References
| Primary Source | State Records NSW Convict Ships Lists - Experiment" arrived June 1809. Freemans Journal 26 Nov 1808 p.3 . NRS 12188; Item: [4/4004]; Microfiche: 632. NSWBDM 1245/1811 V18111245 3A |
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Convict Notes
Mary Saunders was tried at Dublin Quarter Sessions before the Recorder on Thursday 24 Nov 1808, for stealing and was sentenced to 7 . years transportation. She was aged 24. "Mary Saunders for stealing one bank note of the value of ten pounds; to be transported for seven years." She left a few weeks later in January 1809 on "Experiment" for NSW The 1811 muster records her as a convict, resident in Sydney. In 1811, 24th june, Mary Saunders married John Oswell, at St John's Parramatta. Mary could not sign, John Oswell could. Witnesses were thomas and Mary McKenzie. John Oswell had been convicted at Chelsea barracks in England for desertion in 1804 - 7 yr sentence - and arrived on 1807 on "Duke of Portland". So his seven years were up when they married, and he was free. Oswell then joined up again, to the 73rd Regiment, on 12th March 1814. The 1814 Muster records her as a convict, mustered at Sydney "wife to a soldier 73rd Regiment", and with one child on stores. (Child's baptism record not found). So John Oswell may have been a soldier There is no further record of Mary in NSW. She probably followed John Oswell when the Regiment was shipped out to India and Ceylon, he bing on the ship General Brown" in December 1814.