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Transportation
Martha Smith was transported on the Louisa, departing 21st Aug 1827 and arriving 3rd Dec 1827 with 90 passengers.
Ship News- Arrivals. Monday, the ship Louisa, Captain Smith, from London 24th August, with 90 female prisoners, and 21 children. Surgeon Superintendent, James Cook, Esquire, R.N. The Australian, 5 Dec 1827.
Louisa (generic)References
| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 89, Class and Piece Number HO11/6, Page Number 280 |
| 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
1828 NSW Census Martha Smith, age 23, CGS, per Louisa, 1827, 7 years, protestant, in household of George Sutter, resident at Bruce dale, 6 miles north of Bathurst. George Sutter held a lot of land and farmed cattle and sheep. ----------------------------------------------------- Convict Index, 1791-1873. Martha Smith, Louisa, 1827, Ticket of Leave, 30/716. District, Bathurst; Born, Wilts, Marlboro’; Trade, servant; tried, Wilts Ass. Martha Smith, Louisa, 1827, Ticket of Leave, 32/1037. District, Bathurst; Born, Wilts, ; Trade, servant; tried, Wilts Ass. Martha Smith, Louisa, 1827, Certificate of freedom, 25 Apr 1834. 34/0433. TL 32/1037.
Seven years transportation .... — Martha Smith, for breaking open and robbing the house of Wm. Haves, at Chippenham — Salisbury and Wiltshire Journal, 19 Mar 1827. -------------------------------------------------- Martha Smith, convicted at the last Wilts Lent Assizes of house-breaking at Chippenham, and sentenced to 7 years transportation, was removed last Wednesday on board the ship Louisa lying at Woolwich, to be removed to New South Wales. Salisbury and Wiltshire Journal, 20 Aug 1827.
Louisa, Surgeon’s Journal. ADM 101/45/6/11827 Folios 6-7: case no 5, Martha Smith, aged 24, convict, taken ill at Woolwich; sick or hurt, epilepsia; put on sick list 20 August 1827, discharged 8 September 1827 cured.