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Transportation
Phoebe 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 19 (11) |
| 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 PHEBE WILLIAMS. Theft; shoplifting. 2nd April 1788. Text type Trial account Defendants PHEBE WILLIAMS Offences Theft > Shoplifting Session Date 2nd April 1788 Reference Number t17880402-4 Verdicts Guilty > Lesser offence Punishments Transportation 256. PHEBE WILLIAMS was indicted for feloniously stealing, on the 26th of March , a piece of printed cotton, containing four yards and three quarters, value 7 s. the property of Thomas Faulding , privily in his shop . THOMAS FAULDING sworn. I keep a linen-draper's shop in Coventry-street, St. James's ; on the 26th of March I lost four yards and three quarters of printed callico; at twelve o'clock at noon the prisoner came into the shop, and desired to look at some remnants of callicoes; after looking some time, she bought a small quantity, a yard and three quarters, or two yards, and this she took; I had a suspicion of her myself, as I had twice had her at the publick office in Bow-street; I concealed myself in a part of the shop, and saw her take it off the counter; she bought some others, and gave a false address where they were to go to; she went out of the shop; I immediately followed her, and brought her in again, and took it from her. PRISONER's DEFENCE. This gentleman called me back again, and he said he owed me spite; the bit of cotton was sent to my brother; the gentleman said if I can hang you I will; I never was in the gentleman's shop in my life. GUILTY, Of stealing, but not privately . Transported for seven years . Tried by the first Middlesex Jury before Mr. Baron HOTHAM .