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Mary Screen was transported on the Mariner, departing 2nd Mar 1825 and arriving 10th Jul 1825 with 115 passengers.
The 1825 Journey. The ship Mariner, Captain Fotherley, arrived from Ireland with female prisoners, on Sunday evening. She left the Cove of Cork, the 12th of March, and brings 112 female prisoners, having lost only one on the passage. A few passengers also came per this opportunity. Surgeon Superintendent Dr. Cochrane, R. N. Sydney Gazette, 14 July 1825.
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POLICE OFFICE. Committed by W. H. Ferrar, Esq. to Carrickfergus gaol, Caroline Butcher, Mary Skreene and Rose Gray, charged with passing forged bank notes. Belfast News-Letter, 20 Feb 1824. Uttering Forged Notes. Rose Grey, Ellen Screen, and Caroline Butcher, were indicted for having in their possession a forged 20s. note of the Bank of Ireland, and for uttering the same knowing it to be forged, to Mr. Boyce, Belfast. Mr. Boyce, merchant, Belfast, stated that the prisoner, Butcher, offered the Note in question, in Feb. last, for some tea and sugar she had purchased; witness suspected it to be a forgery, and asked her where she got it; she said she had got it from her mother to get change ; witness said he would detain it, and Butcher then said she had got it from her husband, a soldier in the 77th regiment; witness sent for a constable; when he came, Butcher then said, I will tell the truth; I got the note from Ellen Screen witness went to Screen's house, in quest of another note which Butcher said she had; but, on Screen being searched, no note was found on her; Screen acknowledged that she got the note from her husband, a soldier in the 77th regiment; Butcher said she was to receive 3s for uttering the note offered to witness. Mr. Paschal Field, of the Bank of Ireland, proved the note to be a forgery. The Jury found Grey, Not Guilty; Screen and Butcher, Guilty to be transported for 14 years. Belfast Commercial Chronicle, 20 March 1824. On Monday the undermentioned convicts passed through this town, on their route to Dublin, from the Gaol of Carrickfergus :— To be transported for seven years.—Ellen Dunn, Anne Mellish, Frances Stewart, Eliz. Heyburn, Margaret M‘Guire, Mary Patterson, Rose Morgan. To be transported for fourteen years.—Mary Screen, alias Johnston. To be transported for life.--Elizabeth Moon, alias Harkin. One convict named Caroline Butcher remains, in consequence of indisposition. Belfast Commercial Chronicle, 8 Dec 1824.
Convict Index 1791-1873 Mary Screen, Mariner, 1825, Certificate of Freedom, 29 Mar 1838, Wife of William Pugh, per General Hewitt 1814, fbs (as stated on her CF). ------------------------------------------------------- The family is entered separately in the Index, as the children have their fther's name. 1828 Census Index. William Pugh, age 33, T.L. General Hewitt, 1814, 14 years, protestant, Nailor, Cumberland St, Sydney. Benjamin, age 18 months, born in colony. William Jr. age 6 months, born in colony. and Mary Scream, age 26, G.S. Mariner, 1825, 14 years, protestant, Ux Wm. Pugh, Cumberland St, Sydney.
Irish Convict Database by Peter Mayberry. Mary Screen, age on arrival, 23, per Mariner (2) 1825, Tried Antrim, 1824, 14 years, Passing forged notes, DOB 1802, native of Belfast Antrim Co. Protestant. Married husband soldier in 77th Regiment. Butter maker milker.