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Transportation
Sarah Sutton 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 SARAH SUTTON. Theft; pocketpicking. 24th October 1787. Text type Trial account Defendants SARAH SUTTON Offences Theft > Pocketpicking Session Date 24th October 1787 Reference Number t17871024-24 Verdicts Guilty > Lesser offence Punishments Transportation 835. SARAH SUTTON was indicted for feloniously stealing, on the 13th of October , a metal watch, value 40 s. the property of Frederick Franklin , privately from his person . FREDERICK FRANKLIN sworn. I am officer of excise ; I lost my watch; I had been on excise business; I looked at my watch about three or four minutes before the prisoner accosted me, very unexpectedly, with the usual mode of asking for something to drink; I told her I was in haste, and begged to be excused; but however, she busied herself very much about and in an instant, I detected her hand, right hand breeches pocket, where there was a key hanging; in a moment I found myself totally relieved from that disagreeable pressure, and she moved on; says I, you infamous hussy, you have got my watch; and she went and passed another, and I should suppose she gave it to her, for it was found upon her; I got the watchman and took her to St. Ann's round-house; she was carried on Monday to Litchfield-street. PRISONER's DEFENCE. I was going on an errand to my aunt, that gentlemen laid hold of me and asked me to go with him; I said, no; he dragged me into a passage, and beat me with a stick, and shut the door upon me. Prosecutor. I never went into any house with her. Jury. Were there any other women with her? - Not in company. Was you in company with no other woman? - No Sir, I am sure of this woman. GUILTY Of stealing, but not privately . Transported for seven years . Tried by the second Middlesex Jury before Mr. Justice HEATH.