Mary Underhill

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iain Frazier on 2nd August 2025

Family connections for Mary (Underhill) are: UNDERHILL Mary (Underhill) was born about 1775. She was tried w/1other for theft, on 17 2 1799, of & receiving sheets etc of her landlord Richard (Angel) at Old Bailey on 3 4 1799, sentenced to 7years & arrived in NSW on 15 4 1800 after a voyage of (not so speedy) 6months on SPEEDY. She had a relationship with Hugh (Hughes his second (2of3) relationship) & produced a child. She is recorded in 1828 Free by Servitude with her family at Parramatta. [Some details taken from this Website]. Hugh (Hughes) was born about 1761/4 & became a wheelwright. He was tried for stealing lead at Southwark Surrey Quarter Sessions, sentenced to 7years & arrived in NSW as a convict on 26 1 1788 after a voyage of 8.5months on First Fleet ship ALEXANDER; he was Protestant. He, as Robert Hugh (Hughes) had a first relationship (1of3) with Mary (Stewart). He was Free by Servitude by 1803. He was recorded in 1806 as living with Mary (Underel) & Jane (Walker) housekeeper at Parramatta. He is recorded in 1814 working as wheelwright with John (Hughes) his son or stepson. He had a third relationship with Jane (Walker her second (2of3) relationship) & is recorded with her as housekeeper to his family at Parramatta. He is recorded in 1828 as Free by Servitude wheelwright with his family at Parramatta. He died on 1/3 1 1830 age66/9 at Parramatta wheelwright father of maybe 2children & was buried at St Johns CofE Parramatta with Thomas (Ashby) & Esther. [Some details taken from this Website]. REFERENCE: Craig James Smee 'Births and Baptisms Marriages and Defacto Relationships Deaths and Burials New South Wales 1788-1830' ..a complete listing from church & other records in the early colony.

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Maureen Withey on 18th August 2022

Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 18 August 2022), April 1799, trial of MARY UNDERHILL DANIEL FEAR (t17990403-36). MARY UNDERHILL, DANIEL FEAR, Theft > theft from a specified place, Theft > receiving, 3rd April 1799. 237. MARY UNDERHILL and DANIEL FEAR were indicted, the first, for feloniously stealing, on the 17th of February , a feather-bed, value 20s. a pair of sheets, value 2s. a blanket, value 1s. 6d. a set of fire-irons, value 1s. 6d. a copper tea-kettle, value 2s. an iron saucepan, value 12d. and a pair of bellows, value 12d. the property of Richard Angel , in a lodging-room, in the dwelling-house of the said Richard, let by contract to the said Mary Underhill ; and the other for receiving the same goods knowing them to be stolen . LYDIA ANGEL sworn. - I am the wife of Richard Angel, I live at No. 133, Great Saffronhill , I let a lodging to the prisoner Underhill: On the 29th of January last, the things mentioned in the indictment were in the room; she came in the same night, and continued a fortnight; I found she was not a steady woman, and I gave her notice to quit; she went on Sunday the 17th, I believe, but I did not know she was gone till the 18th; I then missed the things mentioned in the indictment. Q. Did they all belong to your husband? - A. They did. RICHARD ANGEL sworn. - I apprehended the prisoner, Underhill; I asked her where the things were, but she was ready to tell me without. Q. Did you make use of any threats to her? - A. No. Q. Nor tell her it would be better for her to confess? - A. No; she said they were at No. 71, in Fetter-lane; I went there, with a search-warrant and two officers. Q. Who lives at No. 71, Fetter-lane? - A. I do not know their names; I found my bed cased in another tick, mine was a good tick, and it was covered over with an old one; in opening it I found duplicates between the two ticks; in consequence of those duplicates, I found a saucepan, bellows, and part of the fire-irons. Q. Were these things part of the furniture let with the lodgings to the prisoner? - A. Yes. Q. At what pawnbroker's did you find any thing to which these duplicates applied? - A. At Mr. Fleming's, in Fetter-lane, I found a tea-kettle and a blanket; and at Mr. Ashford's, in Baldwin's-gardens, I found a pair of sheets. Q. Were these articles part of the furniture let with the lodgings? - A. Yes. Prisoner Underhill. He promised to make it up with us when our friends came, and they came about ten minutes too late. Witness. I never promised any such thing. ROBERT ALLEN sworn. - I am servant to Edmund Fleming , pawnbroker, No. 39, Fetter-lane: I took these things in of a person of the name of Mary Phillips , not the prisoner. Q. Who is Mary Phillips? - A. At the examination at Hatton-garden, it proved to be the wife of the prisoner Fear. Q. Did she acknowledge that she was the wife of Fear? - A. Yes; they were pledged on the 18th of February. (Produces a blanket and a tea-kettle, which were deposed to by Mrs. Angel). JAMES MARLOW sworn. - I am servant to Thomas Ashford , pawnbroker, No. 38, Baldwin's-gardens, (Produces a pair of sheets): On the 11th of February, the prisoner, Underhill, pledged a sheet with me for 2s. 6d.; on the 31st of January another sheet for 2s. 6d. (The sheets were deposed to by Mrs. Angel). WILLIAM RHODES sworn. - I am an officer belonging to Hatton-garden: I searched the lodgings of Daniel Fear, No. 7l, in Fetter-lane, he lodged up in the garret; I found the tick and these duplicates. (Producing them). Underhill's defence. I pawned nothing but the sheets; I intended to get them out before I left the place. Underhill, GUILTY (Aged 24.) Transported for seven years . Fear, NOT GUILTY . Tried by the second Middlesex Jury, before Lord KENYON.