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Voyage
Transportation
Mary Williams 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.
Lady JulianaReferences
| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 87, Class and Piece Number HO11/1, Page Number 17 (10) |
| 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
Old Bailey Online MARY WILLIAMS. Theft; theft from a specified place. 24th October 1787 Text type Trial account Defendants MARY WILLIAMS Offences Theft > Theft from place Session Date 24th October 1787 Reference Number t17871024-43 Verdicts Guilty Punishments Transportation 854. MARY WILLIAMS was indicted, for that she on the 3d day of October , feloniously did take away with intent to steal, embezzle, and purloin, one pair of sheets, value 3 s. two blankets, value 1 s. a pillow, value 6 d. a flat-iron, value 6 d. the property of Edward Hawkins in her lodging-room . LYDIA HAWKINS sworn. I let a room to the prisoner at half a crown a week; she entered on her lodging the same day about the 4th or 5th of September; I went to ask her for some rent one day, she gave me eighteen-pence; I missed the things, she had not left the lodging. (The things produced by the pawnbroker.) They were pawned by the prisoner; she said it was her own property; I knew her some time past. Prosecutor. I cannot swear to them, but I had such things, there is no mark to them, I believe them to be mime. GUILTY Transported for seven years . Tried by the second Middlesex Jury before Mr. Justice HEATH.