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Transportation
Catherine Williams was transported on the Coromandel And Experiment, departing 31st Oct 1803 and arriving 7th May 1804 with 338 passengers.
Coromandel And Experiment (generic)References
| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 87, Class and Piece Number HO11/1, Page Number 351 (175) |
| 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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Convict Notes
Catherine was a married woman from Manchester and the wife of James Williams. She had stolen silk handkerchiefs at Heaton Norris from William Haddlestone along with Hannah Wallworth, who she was tried and transported with. Catherine, Hannah and the others, left Lancaster Castle in the last days of November 1803 and were soon after put onboard ship at Spithead. Catherine gained her certificate of freedom on the 31st May 1810. She was recorded as the wife of David Evans in 1816 (no record found so presumably a common-law relationship). During the 1818, 1820 and 1821 musters, Catherine was described as a housekeeper. Now aged 38, Catherine married fellow Mancunian and shipwright Nathan(iel) Lloyd (ship- Earl Cornwallis) at St Philips, Sydney in October 1822 and they had their own assigned convicts this year. In 1828, they were recorded as living together at 3 Harrington Street in Sydney. Only a few years after the last muster, on the 4th May 1831, Catherine died (recorded as aged 52, but more likely about 47). She was buried in the Devonshire Street Cemetery and a headstone was raised for her saying 'Sacred to the memory of Catherine Lloyd' along with her death date and age. She was joined by her husband less than four years later and the couple were later re-interred at La Perouse Cemetery. Their gravestone was captured by the transcribers c.1900 in photographic form prior to the exhumation and re-interments of the 40,000 or so individuals in Devonshire St. The image of it can be seen within a pdf presentation called 'beneath the clocktower- State Library of NSW'
The following prisoners are committed to our Castle, from the quarter sessions held at Salford on the 19th inst. … Hannah Wallworth, and Catherine Williams, for ... felonies, each to be transported for seven years. Lancaster Gazette, 29 Jan 1803.   Names of the female convicts removed from the Castle of Lancaster and put board the ship Experiment, at Spithead, bound to New South Wales. Margaret Mason, alias Moore, Mary Allen, Mary Nuttall, Mary Dooley, Hannah Walworth, Ann Bradwell, Margaret Broughton, Elizabeth Fox, Mary Moss, Catharine Williams, Margaret Southern, and Mary Duggan. Lancaster Gazette, 3 Dec 1803.