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Ann Yeoman 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.
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Convict Notes
Old Bailey Online ANN YEOMAN. Theft; grand larceny (to 1827). 12th September 1787. Text type Trial account Defendants ANN YEOMAN Offences Theft > Grand larceny Session Date 12th September 1787 Reference Number t17870912-85 Verdicts Guilty Punishments Transportation 755. ANN YEOMAN was indicted for stealing, on the 6th day of August last; one linen frock, value 1 s. one silk ribbon, value 6 d. the property of Samuel Bailley . ELIZABETH BAILLEY sworn. On the 6th of August last, I had my child brought home to me out of the fields, stripped of her frock and sash; I live in Old-street-road; my husband's name is Samuel Bailley ; the child was five years old the day it was done; she went out without my knowledge with another child near six years old; I never saw the prisoner before; Thomas Elstone brought the prisoner and the child to me. THOMAS ELSTONE sworn. On the 6th of August, I was going along the City-road between three and four in the afternoon, and I saw the prisoner in a ditch in a corner, and I stood looking at her; presently I saw her run out of this corner, and two children coming out of the corner; I stopped at a distance; I asked the children what was the matter; this little child was crying; in consequence of what the other child informed me, I pursued the prisoner and overtook her; she ran, and I called to her, but she would not stop; when I charged her she put her hand underneath the bottom of her stays, and gave me the frock; I asked her if she had any more; then she put her hand in her pocket and gave me the sash, and desired me to let her go, and I would not; that was all that passed between us then; I took the children home, the eldest knew her way home. Did the prisoner tell you who the children were? - No, she would not; I asked her, she did not know them. (The frock and sash produced and deposed to.) PRISONER's DEFENCE. I was much in liquor, and the children were in the field. GUILTY . Transported for seven years to Africa . Tried by the second Middlesex Jury before Mr. Justice GROSE.