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Transportation
Dorcas Talbot 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 20 |
| 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 DORCAS TALBOT. Theft; shoplifting. 25th June 1788. Text type Trial account Defendants DORCAS TALBOT Offences Theft > Shoplifting Session Date 25th June 1788 Reference Number t17880625-18 Verdicts Guilty > Lesser offence Punishments Transportation 420. DORCAS TALBOT was indicted for feloniously stealing, on the 20th of May , sixty yards of printed callico, value 40 s. the property of John Thwaites and John Fisher , privately in their shop . SAMUEL OXENHAM sworn. I live with Messrs. Thwaites and Fisher, linen drapers , the corner of Glasshouse-street and Swallow-street ; on the 20th of May the prisoner came to our shop, I was engaged and did not observe her go out, but I saw Mr. Lockyer, a fellow servant, go out in seeming haste. Did you know her before? - Yes, she lived in the neighbourhood. Who was in the shop besides you and Mr. Lockyer? - Mr. Fisher was in the shop, and I believe all the servants were in the shop, but I am not certain; I went out after Mr. Lockyer, and saw the prisoner in Swallow-street, a few yards from the shop; Mr. Lockyer stood by her, and I believe had hold of her, her face was towards me, she was in the attitude of returning; I saw the callico hanging below her cloak, so far below it as to discover the pattern of it; I took it from her, and conducted her back to the shop, she begged to be let go, and in the evening we took her to the watch-house. THOMAS LOCKYER sworn. I was serving some customers, one of them said she thought the prisoner had taken something away, I went after her, and Mr. Oxenham followed and took the print from her; we brought her back. The callico produced in court, and deposed to by Mr. Oxenham.) PRISONER's DEFENCE. I make gentlemen's waistcoats; I had been into this shop of an errand, it is where I always dealt for things I want; when I came out of the shop I met a gentleman that I work for, who gave me this callico to make him some waistcoats; these gentlemen came up and said it was their's; the gentleman used to bring me the stuff, and fetch the waistcoats away again when done, so that I neither knew his name nor place of abode. The prisoner called three witnesses, who had known her from her infancy, and gave her a very good character. To Oxenham. Did she say any body had given it to her? - No, she entreated to be let go. GUILTY of stealing the goods, but not privily . Tried by the second Middlesex Jury before Mr. Justice WILSON.