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Mary Whitaker was transported on the Mary, departing 13th Apr 1835 and arriving 7th Sep 1835 with 181 passengers.
Built 1811, Ipswich,England 361 tons. 1817 Journey On Monday arrived the ship Mary, Capt. ORMON, from Calcutta, with merchandize—Passengers, Captain FAITHFUL and Lieut. HAMILTON: this vessel has brought 6 male prisoners from India, destined for Port Jackson; to which place it is expected she will sail to-morrow. Hobart Town Gazette, 24 May 1817. Ship News. On Thursday arrived from Calcutta, via Derwent, the ship Mary, Captain Ormon, with a various cargo. -Passengers from Calcutta, Captain Faithfull and Lieutenant Hamilton:-The Mary sailed from Calcutta the 23d of February, and left the Pilot the 1st of March. Sydney Gazette, Sat 7 Jun 1817. -------------------------------------------------- Convicts who sailed on the 'Mary' direct from Ireland - 1819 & 1836 - are currently being listed, incomplete data to date.
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| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 90, Class and Piece Number HO11/10, Page Number 32 |
| 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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Irish Convict Database by Peter Mayberry. Mary Whittaker, alias Whitaker, age on arrival, 40, per Mary III (5) (1835). Tried 1834, at Norfolk QS England, 7 years, for False pretences. Former conviction, 6 months. DOB, 1795, Native place, Antrim Co. Married, 1 male child with 2 male on board and 1 female on board on board. Protestant. Laundress.
Mary Whitaker, widow, pleaded guilty of obtaining money by means of false pretences from the overseer of Wymondham. The prisoner professed to have been travelling under a pass which had been granted by two Magistrates at Leicester to her, as a prisoner discharged from the county gaol, under the authority of Geo. IV., c. 85, and that she was, with five children, on her way to Yarmouth, her place of settlement; that on her route thither the parish next to Wymondham is Acle, a distance of 19 miles, and that she was therefore entitled to 9s. 6d., being at the rate of 6d. Per mile; the prosecutor suspecting the instrument presented to him by the prisoner to have been improperly obtained, gave her only 2s. instead of 9s. 6d. which she had demanded, and desired her to call again upon him the next morning, and as she did not do so his suspicion increased. Upon enquiry, it afterwards appeared she had left Wymondham and gone to Norwich ; she was therefore followed by one of the police of Wymondham, who traced and found her in a public-house in Ber-street, with many other persons apparently of her description. Upon the day before the prisoner came to Wymondham, she, by means of the pass in question, obtained 6d. of the overseer of Attleburgh. When taken into custody, the police found upon her person 1s. or 4s. and also a letter from Leeds, directed to her Norwich, which leaves no doubt of her being connected with persons of the worst character, and when carried to the Bridewell at Wymondham she was again searched, and in her hair were found 9s. or 10s. It appears by information from Leeds, that passes in large numbers are there manufactured, that they are in constant use throughout the kingdom. Since the apprehension of the prisoner, a similar pass, evidently a forgery, has been found concealed in an outhouse in Wymondham, belonging to a Mr. Humphrey, of that parish ; and on Monday, the 6th inst. another pass, of the same description, and apparently manufactured by the same person who prepared the prisoner's, was presented to the prosecutor by a man having with him three children who has since absconded. Bury and Norwich Post, 22 Oct 1834.