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Voyage
Transportation
Sarah Taylor 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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Old Bailey Online SARAH TAYLOR. Theft; grand larceny (to 1827). 10th September 1788 Text type Trial account Defendants SARAH TAYLOR Offences Theft > Grand larceny Session Date 10th September 1788 Reference Number t17880910-15 Verdicts Guilty Punishments Transportation 511. SARAH TAYLOR was indicted for stealing, on the 5th day of September , a looking glass in a mahogany frame, value 20 s. the property of Henry Cherrington , and David Henning . HENRY CHERRINGTON sworn. I am a cabinet maker and an upholsterer in partnership with David Henning ; I lost a looking-glass; on Friday the 5th of September, the prisoner came in and took off the looking glass; she was taking up the glass; I followed her immediately and overtook her about five yards from my own door; she was going to set down the glass; and I caught hold of her; I took her to the office myself; this is the glass; it is mine. PRISONER's DEFENCE. It rained very hard last Friday evening; I was standing up by a door, when a woman came to me, and said, let this glass stand by you; I am moving, and I have lost my child; I run after the woman, and caught fast hold of her; and she tore a piece out of my handkerchief. Court to Prosecutor. Did you see her in the shop? - I did; there was a woman came up to her, and followed me to the shop; and took hold of the prisoner's gown; when she came back to the shop, she came up with her to the shop door. Are you sure that the prisoner was the same woman that you saw in the shop? - I can swear to it. The prisoner called four witnesses who gave her a good character. GUILTY . Transported for seven years . Tried by the London Jury before Mr. RECORDER.
Married Peter Sampson from Ship Scarborough in Sydney 1791