Martha Matilda Whittaker

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Penny-Lyn Beale on 23rd August 2021

1825 - New South Wales. General muster - 1825 Name; Martha Whitaker Age; No details Class; Convict Ship; Mary Ann Remarks/Assigned; Wife of Jno Dickson. Parramatta 1826 - Sydney, Australia, Anglican Parish Registers, St John's Parramatta. Year 1826 No; 67 Name; Martha Dixon Abode; Parramatta When Buried; 8 Oct 1826 Age; 44 years Ships Name; Mary Ann Quality or profession; Convict By whom the Ceremony was performed; Samuel Marsden

Level 338

Penny-Lyn Beale on 10th May 2020

New South Wales, Australia, Convict Indents, 1788-1842 - Bound Indentures 1814-1818 WIFE OF RICHARD WHITTAKER 1817 - New South Wales, Australia, St. John's Parramatta, Marriages, John Dixon Aged 39 - Ocean in the parish of Parramatta and Martha Whittaker age 34. Mary Anne of Parish of Parramatta 28th January 1817. Name: Martha Whittaker. Event Date: Jan 1817 Arrival year: 1816. Vessel: Mary Ann Event Description: Re permission to marry at Parramatta. Comments: Per "Mary Ann", 1816 Page: 434 Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 10 May 2020), January 1815, trial of MARTHA MATILDA WHITTAKER , alias WHITARE (t18150111-38). MARTHA MATILDA WHITTAKER, Theft > theft from a specified place, 11th January 1815. 159. MARTHA MATILDA WHITTAKER , alias WHITARE , was indicted for feloniously stealing, on the 17th of September , in the dwelling house of William Bloomfield , a twenty pound Bank note , his property. SUSANNAH BLOOMFIELD. I am the wife of William Bloomfield , he lives at No, 1. Queens head court Gilt-spur-street , he is a bricklayer , I take in washing; I employed the prisoner to assist me in washing I had employed her about five or six months. Q. On the 17th of September, do you recollect any person coming to your house and asking for the prisoner - A. Yes; John Chill called the prisoner she went out, and came in again in a few minutes; she said she must go out a little way with a gentleman about a little business; I said she could not go, as it was Saturday I was very busy; she said she must go, but would not be gone more than twenty minutes, or half an hour at the outside, the gentleman waited in the passage for her. Q. Do you know who that gentleman was - A. Mr. John Chill . I saw no more of her then, she took the child with her, untill I saw her in custody; she saidshe should be sure of returning, by taking the child with her I might be sure she would not stop; it was about twenty minutes after one. Q. When was it you missed any thing - A. I missed a twenty pound bank note at four o'clock. The twenty pound note had been in a little box in a corner of a drawer in the chest of drawers; I had seen in the morning of that day in the chest of drawers, about nine o'clock. Q. Had the prisoner the means of getting at that drawer if she pleased - A. Yes, she had; I went into Warwick lane at twelve o'clock, I left the keys in the drawer, and left the prisoner in the room, and no one else at four o'clock I missed it. That is all I know about it. WILLIAM BLOOMFIELD . Q, Do you know the prisoner washed for your wife - A. I do, on the 17th of September, I returned at twelve o'clock to home to my dinner; I found the prisoner there and nobody else. JOHN CHILL. I am a servant. Q. Do you know the prisoner - A. Yes; she has washed for me some months before September, and up to September. On Saturday the 17th of September I went to her, at Mrs. Bloomfielda, I saw the prisoner mangling, I asked her for the things of mine that she had a week or ten days before; she said, they were wet and dirty, and not washed; I said she had had them a considerable time I would rather take them with me; she went back again into the house directly, she then came to me again, said she had received a twenty pound note of a lady that had come from her husband in the country, that her husband had left to him a considerable property, that her husband's father was dead, her husband had sent her up a twenty pound note by a lady that lived in Gough square; she then went to the Birmingham coach at the swan and two necks; I saw her go off. MR. FARREW. I live a clothes shop in Fleet market, at Mr. Turner's. On the 17th of September as Mr. Chill came to my shop a woman accompained him, they bought some articles with a twenty pound note; I took down the name and address, I have forgot the name, I went and got change for the note in the market. WILLIAM PAYNE . I am chief constable in Birmingham, I was so in September last. On the 18th of September, in consequence of information, I apprehended the prisoner; I first said to her you have robbed Mr. Bloomfield of a twenty pound note, in Gilt-spur-street, London; she made no reply; she put her hand into her bosom and pulled out seven one pound bank notes, she said these are all I have got left of it; she said she had changed it in London, I do not recollect she said at what place. I then asked her how she accompted for the difference there was thirteen pounds deficient; I searched her pockets, in her pockets there were eighteen shillings that I gave her back again; I asked her again what she had done with the remainder; she said she had paid three pounds at the swan and two necks Lad-lane for herself and child, and she had paid two pounds more at the coach office Birmingham, to carry her down to Warwick; and she said on coming down from London she had supped, and had given a five pound note instead of a one which she had not discovered untill afterwards; and she had bought some things amounting in the whole to seventeen pounds, she accompted for the whole, with the seven pound I had got; to the amount of seventeen pounds; I told her I had got a warrant to detain her, she wished to go to her husband in Lancashire, no doubt she said her husband would advance the money and the prosecutor would forgive her. Prisoner's Defence. I never saw the money nor touched it, the money I had was my own property I had it gave me, I thought it was a one pound note when I came to look at it, it was a twenty pound note. GUILTY - DEATH , aged 28. The prisoner was recommended to mercy by the jury on account of her children . London jury before Mr. Recorder.