Esther Wright

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Robin Sharkey on 29th August 2021

CORRECTION FOR NSW ENTRY The above last few lines about Eleanor in NSW are incorrect. PLEASE DISREGARD. The following is what happened to Eleanor Wright per "Wanstead" once in NSW. In 1815 she married John Byrne at St Matthews Church of England in Windsor. [Esther Wright/John Byrne NSWBDM marriage -1723/1815 V18151723 3A] By 1822 she had completed her sentence and was free by Servitude, residing at Windsor as wife of J. Byrne (per 1822 convict muster). In the 1825 muster of NSW convicts, she was still at Windsor, and wife of John (although he was incorrectly recorded as "Boyce").

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Robin Sharkey on 29th August 2021

Esther Wright , aged 34, was tried at the Lancaster Assizes commencing 20 March 1813, for stealing bank notes. She was found guilty, and sentenced to 7 years transportation. She sailed a few months later on “Wanstead”, departing in August 1813, arriving in NSW in January 1814. Lancaster Gazetter, Sat 20 March 1813 p.3 “Lancaster Assizes “The Calendar of Prisoners who are to take their trials at our assizes, which commence this day, before the Hon. Baron Thomason and the Hon Justice Le Blanc, we are sorry to say, contains no less than seventy-three offenders, many of whom are charged with capital offences. They are as follows: “ Esther Wright charged with having stolen, at Liverpool, thirty-two bank notes, the property of Joseph Pickering.” Lancaster Gazetter, Sat 10 April 1813, p 3 “LANCASTER ASSIZES, Crown Side “ On Saturday morning the Hon Baron Thompson passed sentence on the remainder of the prisoners convicted at these Assizes. Viz, "The following had been sentenced on the day of their trial: ... Esther Wright — seven years transportation" In NSW, Esther was recorded on the ship’s indent as being 42 years of age, and a chambermaid. She was on the list of women sent directly from “Wanstead” up river to Parramatta. In the 1814 Muster nine months after she arrived she was a servant assigned in the household of Rev Cartwright at Windsor. In NSW: Eleanor was sent up river to Parramatta when the "Wanstead" arrived in February 1814. Nine months later when the 1814 Muster was held in Oct-Nov, she was recorded as being in the Female Factory, at Parramatta. Sadly, Eleanor died, on the leap year day of 29 February 1820. She was registered as "Ellen Thorpe" in the St Phillip's, Sydney, church Burial registered, and as being aged 49 years. She was buried on 1 March 1820.

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Robin Sharkey on 29th August 2021

Esther Wright , aged 34, was tried at the Lancaster Assizes commencing 20 March 1813, for stealing bank notes. She was found guilty, and sentenced to 7 years transportation. She sailed a few months later on “Wanstead”, departing in August 1813, arriving in NSW in January 1814. Lancaster Gazetter, Sat 20 March 1813 p.3 “Lancaster Assizes “The Calendar of Prisoners who are to take their trials at our assizes, which commence this day, before the Hon. Baron Thomason and the Hon Justice Le Blanc, we are sorry to say, contains no less than seventy-three offenders, many of whom are charged with capital offences. They are as follows: “ Esther Wright charged with having stolen, at Liverpool, thirty-two bank notes, the property of Joseph Pickering.” Lancaster Gazetter, Sat 10 April 1813, p 3 “LANCASTER ASSIZES, Crown Side “ On Saturday morning the Hon Baron Thompson passed sentence on the remainder of the prisoners convicted at these Assizes. Viz, "The following had been sentenced on the day of their trial: ... Esther Wright — seven years transportation" In NSW, Esther was recorded on the ship’s indent as being 34 years of age, and a chambermaid. She was on the list of women sent directly from “Wanstead” up river to Parramatta. In the 1814 Muster nine months after she arrived she was a servant assigned in the household of Rev Cartwright at Woindsor.