Summary
Personal Information
Crime
Voyage
Transportation
Charlotte Simpson 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 17 (10) |
| 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 |
Claims
"Ancestor on my mother's side"
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Convict Notes
Hugh Maguines & charlotte's children were bap in Hobart, Tasmanian marriage cert No 56. 16/7/1810. this is to certify that Hugh Maginnis (Maguines)a single man &Charlotte; Hall(alias Simpson)single woman , both of this town were married by Banns at Hobart town by Rev Robert Knopwood in the presents of J.M.Dermott & Wm Thos Stokes .
From approximately 1796 Hugh Maginnis co-habited on Norfolk Island with Charlotte Simpson / Hall. They had five (5) children, Hugh born in 1798, Rebecca 1800, John Hall1802, William Daniel 1804 and Elizabeth 1806. There were another two children from Charlotte’s prior liaison with Thomas Dodge, Ralph Dodge, born 1791 and Sarah, born 1795 that later went under the name Maginnis.The trail of Charlotte to Norfolk Island was similar to Hugh’s. She was born approximately 1766 and when she was about 21 years old, was tried with a George Simpson (aged 22 years) at the Old Bailey Sessions on 24th October 1787, for the theft of a handsaw and smoothing plane. Charlotte was acquitted and George was sentenced to seven (7) years transportation. It is not certain if George was her husband or brother. She was later charged and tried for stealing a pair of stockings, a handkerchief and a paste pin for which she was arrested while trying to pawn. Sentenced to seven (7) years transportation, Charlotte remained in Newgate Gaol until March 1789 when she was loaded onto the transport ship “Lady Juliana†in the second fleet to Port Jackson. The Lady Juliana records show her as Charlotte Simpson alias Hall. She was subsequently sent to Norfolk Island where she lived as wife to John Thomas Dodge (sometimes spelt Doidge), an official. It was not unusual for officers to take a convict woman as a mistress and, it was common for these women to be left behind when the that officer was transferred or returned to England, when he would most likely return to his lawful wife or else marry and return to Port Jackson with his new wife. Thomas Dodge returned to Sydney in 1795 after they had given birth to three (3) children, Ralph born 1791, William born 1793 and died in 1794, and Sarah who was born in 1795. It was not unusual for men to make no provision for the children they had fathered with convict women and it appears that Thomas Dodge had no further contact with Charlotte or his children even though he ended up a settler in the Hawkesbury River district of New South Wale. Charlotte, her husband and family went to Van Diemens Land in 1808 and she died at Sorell, Tasmania in 1828.