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Sarah Whitlam 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.
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Convict Notes
From the diary of John Nicol, Mariner: "When we were fairly out at sea, every man on board took a wife from among the convicts, they nothing loath. The girl with whom I lived, for I was as bad in this point as the others, was named Sarah Whitlam. She was a native of Lincoln, a girl of modest reserved turn, as kind and true a creature as ever lived. I courted her for a week and upwards, and would have married her upon the spot, had there been a clergy man on board. She had been banished for a mantle she had borrowed from an acquaintance. Her friend prosecuted her for stealing it, and she was transported for seven years. I had fixed my fancy upon her from the moment I knocked the rivet out of her irons upon my anvil, and as firmly resolved to bring her back to England, when her time was out, my lawful wife, as ever I did intend anything in my life. She bore me a son in our voyage out. What is become of her, whether she is dead or alive, I know not. that I do not, is no fault of mine, as my narrative will show. "At length almost to our sorrow, we made the land upon the 3rd June 1790 just one year all but one day from our leaving the river. We landed all our convicts safe".....Excerpt from The Life and Adventures of John Nicol, Mariner printed in the Spirit of the English Magazines. Married John Welch, St. Phillips Church, Sydney 29 July 1790. Aug 1790: She was transferred to Norfolk Island. Her husband joined her there later. June 1796: The Family left the Colony for Europe, via India. Her husband returned in 1801, but without Sarah or children. Her first partner John Nicol apparently visited her parents in Lincolnshire, but he did not find her there.
Convicts Details Sarah WHITLAM Alias: n/a Of: Tealby Occupation: n/a Age: n/a Crime: Breaking into the dwelling house of Robert Fletcher of Tealby and stealing divers items of wearing apparel, the property of his daughter Elizabeth Fletcher, spinster Place of Crime: Tealby Court: Lindsey Quarter Sessions Trial Date: 10/07/1787 Sentence: 7 Years Ship: Lady Juliana / Neptune Destination: New South Wales Transportation Date: 1790 Sources Used: Trial documents Other Remarks: Spinster. The wearing apparel was 6 yards of black chintz cotton, 1 yd of brown Holland linen, 1 raven grey tammy gown, 1 white ground cotton gown with red & lilac stripes, 1 Norwich crepe gown, 1 pink quilted petticoat, 7 yds of black calomanco, 1 pair of women's stays, 1 black satin cloak, 1 red duffin cloak, 1 fine white lawn apron, 1 chocolate ground silk handkerchief, 1 red & black silk handkerchief, 1 black mode silk handkerchief, half a black silk handkerchief, 1 women's black silk hat, 3 white linen aprons, 2 checked linen & cotton aprons, 1 pair of leather shoes & 1 pair of plated shoe buckles Document Ref: LQS A/1/237/Caistor/26,54,57-9,61