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Bristol (5)
Cumberland (2)
Devonshire (1)
Durham (1)
Hampshire (1)
Lancashire (8)
London (2)
Middlesex (2)
Norfolk (1)
Northumberland (5)
Staffordshire (1)
Surrey (1)
Sussex (1)
Warwickshire (2)
Yorkshire (3)
Scotland (5)
Wales (2)
BRISTOL
Sarah Hopkins
Date of Trial: 12 April 1817
Where Tried: Bristol Session of Peace Oyer and Terminer Gaol Delivery
Crime: Receiving stolen goods
Sentence: 14 years
Est YOB: 1791
Stated Age on Arrival: 27
Native Place: Birmingham
Occupation: Servant
Alias/AKA: –
Surgeon’s Remarks: A prostitute without the least shame
Lucy Mears and Sophia Richards – Sisters
Lucy Mears
Date of Trial: 12 April 1817
Where Tried: Bristol Session of Peace Oyer and Terminer Gaol Delivery
Crime: Receiving Stolen Goods
Sentence: 14 Years
Est YOB: 1794
Stated Age on Arrival: 24
Native Place: Kegworth, Leicestershire
Occupation: Lace Maker
Alias/AKA: Lucy Meares/Pears
Surgeon’s Remarks: A prostitute, sister to the above [Sophia Richards] and of a most infamous disposition
Sophia Richards
Date of Trial: 12 April 1817
Where Tried: Bristol Session of Peace Oyer and Terminer Gaol Delivery
Crime: Receiving Stolen Goods
Sentence: 14 Years
Est YOB: 1796
Stated Age on Arrival: 22
Native Place: Kegworth, Leicestershire
Occupation: Lace Maker
Alias/AKA: –
Surgeon’s Remarks: A prostitute Leader of the Mutinous Spirit shown last July
Profiles-Lucy Mears and Sophia Richards
Sarah North
Date of Trial: 13 January 1817
Where Tried: Bristol Quarter Session
Crime: Larceny
Sentence: 7 Years
Est YOB: 1795
Stated Age on Arrival: 23
Native Place:
Occupation: Market Woman
Alias/AKA: –
Surgeon’s Remarks: A prostitute and bad disposition
Elizabeth Patrick
Date of Trial: 13 January 1817
Where Tried: Bristol Quarter Session
Crime: Larceny
Sentence: 7 Years
Est YOB: 1794
Stated Age on Arrival: 24
Native Place:
Occupation: Hat Binder and Picker
Alias/AKA: –
Surgeon’s Remarks: A prostitute with the least shame
CUMBERLAND
Sarah Armstrong
Date of Trial: 21 August 1816
Where Tried: Cumberland Gaol Delivery
Crime: Burglary
Sentence: Life/Death commuted
Est YOB: 1780
Stated Age on Arrival: 38
Native Place: Workington
Occupation: Housekeeper
Alias/AKA: Sarah Donald
Surgeon’s Remarks: A thief and liar, filthy
Margaret Sellairs
Date of Trial: 21 August 1816
Where Tried: Cumberland Gaol Delivery
Crime: Uttering forged bank notes
Sentence: Life
Est YOB: 1782
Stated Age on Arrival: 36
Native Place:
Occupation: Flax Spinner
Alias/AKA: Margaret Wilson, Margaret Sella(e)rs
Surgeon’s Remarks: Inoffensive
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DEVON
Mary Johnson
Date of Trial: 19 March 1817
Where Tried: Devon Assizes
Crime: Larceny
Sentence: 7 Years
Est YOB: 1783
Stated Age on Arrival: 35
Native Place:
Occupation: Country Servant
Alias/AKA: –
Surgeon’s Remarks: Insolent but disposed to work
DURHAM
Barbara Oliver
Date of Trial: 10 August 1816
Where Tried: Durham Assizes Court of Pleas Oyer and Terminer Gaol Delivery
Crime: Having forged bank notes
Sentence: 14 Years
Est YOB: 1775
Stated Age on Arrival: 43
Native Place: Newcastle on Tyne
Occupation: Servant
Alias/AKA: –
Surgeon’s Remarks: Quiet and Industrious
HAMPSHIRE
Mary Lenny
Date of Trial: 3 March 1817
Where Tried: Winchester Assizes
Crime: Having in possession forged bank notes
Sentence: 14 Years
Est YOB: 1781
Stated Age on Arrival: 37
Native Place:
Occupation: Mantua Maker (School Teacher at trial)
Alias/AKA: Mary Linney, Mary Leary
Surgeon’s Remarks: A weak intellected woman and quiet
LANCASHIRE
Mary Ann Buckley
Date of Trial: 30 January 1817
Where Tried: Lancaster Quarter Session
Crime: Larceny
Sentence: 7 Years
Est YOB: 1797
Stated Age on Arrival: 31
Native Place:
Occupation: Country work
Alias/AKA:
Surgeon’s Remarks: A good disposition, but (?) devoid of reflection
Mary Bridge
Date of Trial: 31 August 1816
Where Tried: Lancaster Assizes
Crime: Having in possession forged bank notes
Sentence: 14 Years
Est YOB: 1766
Stated Age on Arrival: 47
Native Place:
Occupation: Country Servant & Cotton Weaver
Alias/AKA:
Surgeon’s Remarks: Inoffensive, deviant old woman
Sarah Gordon
Date of Trial: 31 August 1816
Where Tried: Lancaster Assizes
Crime: Having in possession forged bank notes
Sentence: 14 Years
Est YOB: 1789
Stated Age on Arrival: 29
Native Place:
Occupation: Child’s Nurse and Shoe Binder
Alias/AKA:
Surgeon’s Remarks: Mutinous, seditious and bad disposed woman
Jane Jones
Date of Trial: 20 January 1817
Where Tried: Lancaster Quarter Session
Crime: Larceny
Sentence: 7 Years
Est YOB: 1782
Stated Age on Arrival: 36
Native Place:
Occupation:
Alias/AKA:
Surgeon’s Remarks: Quiet and industrious
Margaret Lang
Date of Trial: 22 January 1817
Where Tried: Lancaster Quarter Session
Crime: Larceny
Sentence: 7 Years
Est YOB: 1776
Stated Age on Arrival: 52
Native Place:
Occupation:
Alias/AKA:
Surgeon’s Remarks: A helpless old woman
Ann Ross
Date of Trial: 22 January 1817
Where Tried: Lancaster Quarter Session
Crime: Larceny
Sentence: 7 Years
Est YOB: 1790
Stated Age on Arrival: 22
Native Place:
Occupation:
Alias/AKA:
Surgeon’s Remarks: Lazy, scrophulous, and epileptic, and very bad temper
Sarah Marshall
Date of Trial: 24 July 1816
Where Tried: Lancaster Quarter Session
Crime: Larceny
Sentence: 7 Years
Est YOB: 1794
Stated Age on Arrival: 24
Native Place:
Occupation: Country Servant
Alias/AKA:
Surgeon’s Remarks: Prostitute (not(?) insolent or bad disposed), industrious
Catherine Welch
Date of Trial: 22 January 1817
Where Tried: Lancaster Quarter Session
Crime: Larceny
Sentence: 7 Years
Est YOB: 1789
Stated Age on Arrival: 29
Native Place:
Occupation: Needlework
Alias/AKA: Catherine Welsh
Surgeon’s Remarks: Quiet and industrious
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LONDON
Grace Blaker
Date of Trial: 18 September 1816
Where Tried: London Gaol Delivery
Crime: Having a forged bank note
Sentence: 14 Years
Est YOB: 1794
Stated Age on Arrival: 23
Native Place: London
Occupation: Mantua Maker and Shoe Binder
Alias/AKA: Mary Blaker, Grace Blaken
Surgeon’s Remarks: A shameless prostitute, insolent, bad disposition
Elizabeth Macginnis
Date of Trial: 15 January 1817
Where Tried: London Gaol Delivery
Crime: Receiving stolen property
Sentence: 14 Years
Est YOB: 1775
Stated Age on Arrival: 43
Native Place: Ireland
Occupation: Housekeeper
Alias/AKA: Elizabeth MacGinnis/McGuiness/Maggannis
Surgeon’s Remarks: Rather insolent but a good mother, humane
MIDDLESEX
Jane Barns
Date of Trial: 13 July 1816
Where Tried: Clerkenwell Session (Hicks Hall)
Crime: Larceny
Sentence: 7 Years
Est YOB: 1793
Stated Age on Arrival: 23
Native Place:
Occupation: Laundress
Alias/AKA:
Surgeon’s Remarks: A character unworthy of any trust except what concerns her profession (a thief)
Harriet Garva
Date of Trial: 18 September 1816
Where Tried: Middlesex Gaol Delivery
Crime: Receiving stolen goods
Sentence: 14 Years
Est YOB: 1782
Stated Age on Arrival: 27
Native Place:
Occupation: Straw Bonnet Maker (Fortune Teller and Milliner at Trial)
Alias/AKA: Harriet Garvey
Surgeon’s Remarks: Industrious
NORFOLK
Susannah Mason
Date of Trial: 21 April 1817
Where Tried: Norfolk, Borough of Kings Lynn Quarter Session and Gaol Delivery
Crime: Receiving stolen goods
Sentence: 14 Years
Est YOB:
Stated Age on Arrival:
Native Place:
Occupation:
Alias/AKA:
Surgeon’s Remarks: Conducts herself with propriety
NORTHUMBERLAND
Maria Courtney
Date of Trial: 24 July 1816
Where Tried: Berwick upon Tweed Borough Gaol Delivery
Crime: Coining
Sentence: Life
Est YOB: 1796
Stated Age on Arrival: 23
Native Place:
Occupation: Servant
Alias/AKA:
Surgeon’s Remarks: Tolerably quiet and industrious
Margaret Duffey
Date of Trial: 24 July 1816
Where Tried: Berwick upon Tweed Borough Gaol Delivery
Crime: Coining
Sentence: Life
Est YOB: 1773
Stated Age on Arrival: 45
Native Place: Belfast
Occupation: Servant
Alias/AKA: Margaret Duffie
Surgeon’s Remarks: Insolent and indolently inclined
Jane Granger
Date of Trial: 15 August 1816
Where Tried: Northumberland Assizes
Crime: Coining
Sentence: Life
Est YOB: 1784
Stated Age on Arrival: 34
Native Place:
Occupation: Country Servant
Alias/AKA:
Surgeon’s Remarks: Inoffensive and industrious
Mary Moen
Date of Trial: 24 July 1816
Where Tried: Berwick upon Tweed Borough Gaol Delivery
Crime: Coining
Sentence: Life
Est YOB: 1796
Stated Age on Arrival: 23
Native Place:
Occupation: Needlework
Alias/AKA: Mary Moon
Surgeon’s Remarks: A good mother but a blasphemous and bad disposition
Mary Smiles
Date of Trial: 16 April 1817
Where Tried: Northumberland Quarter Session
Crime: Larceny
Sentence: 7 Years
Est YOB: 1794
Stated Age on Arrival: 24
Native Place:
Occupation: Country Servant
Alias/AKA:
Surgeon’s Remarks: Inoffensive and industrious
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STAFFORDSHIRE
Mary Jackson
Date of Trial: 1 August 1816
Where Tried: Stafford Assizes
Crime: Forgery
Sentence: 14 Years
Est YOB: 1781
Stated Age on Arrival: 37
Native Place:
Occupation: Housekeeper
Alias/AKA:
Surgeon’s Remarks: Industrious
SURREY
Amey Barfoot
Date of Trial: 27 March 1817
Where Tried: Surrey Assizes
Crime: Burglary
Sentence: Life
Est YOB: 1798
Stated Age on Arrival: 19
Native Place:
Occupation: Housekeeper
Alias/AKA: Amay Barfoot, Emma Burford, Amelia Burfoot
Surgeon’s Remarks: Well behaved and industrious
SUSSEX
Jane Rogers
Date of Trial: 24 March 1817
Where Tried: Sussex Assizes
Crime: Larceny
Sentence: 7 Years
Est YOB: 1779
Stated Age on Arrival: 38
Native Place: Sussex
Occupation: Shopkeeper (Servant for Certificate of Freedom)
Alias/AKA:
Surgeon’s Remarks: Inoffensive, very sickly
WARWICKSHIRE
Ann Dudley
Date of Trial: 12 August 1816
Where Tried: Warwick Assizes
Crime: Larceny
Sentence: 7 Years
Est YOB: 1786
Stated Age on Arrival: 32?
Native Place:
Occupation:
Alias/AKA:
Surgeon’s Remarks: Quiet and indolent
Mary Eginton
Date of Trial: 12 August 1816
Where Tried: Warwick Assizes
Crime: Larceny
Sentence: 7 Years
Est YOB: 1788
Stated Age on Arrival: 30
Native Place:
Occupation:
Alias/AKA: Mary Smith, Mary Eggington/Egerton
Surgeon’s Remarks: A thief and prostitute
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YORKSHIRE
Rosannah Euden
Date of Trial: 16 January 1816
Where Tried: York, Kingston upon Hull Quarter Session
Crime: Larceny
Sentence: 7 Years
Est YOB: 1796
Stated Age on Arrival: 32
Native Place:
Occupation: Servant, Stocking Weaver
Alias/AKA: Rosannah Huden/Hewdon
Surgeon’s Remarks: Prostitute, shameless and mutinous
Mary Buxton
Date of Trial: 23 October 1816
Where Tried: York, West Riding Quarter Session
Crime: Larceny
Sentence: 7 Years
Est YOB: 1783
Stated Age on Arrival: 35
Native Place:
Occupation:
Alias/AKA:
Surgeon’s Remarks: An indolent, inoffensive woman
Hannah Hammond Crampton
Date of Trial: 8 March 1817
Where Tried: York Assizes
Crime: Having forged bank notes
Sentence: 14 Years
Est YOB: 1787
Stated Age on Arrival: 31
Native Place:
Occupation: Housekeeper and Needlework
Alias/AKA:
Surgeon’s Remarks: Conducts herself with propriety and is very industrious
SCOTLAND
Elizabeth Brodie
Date of Trial: 20 April 1817
Where Tried: Glasgow Court of Judiciary
Crime: Theft
Sentence: 14 Years
Est YOB: 1795
Stated Age on Arrival: 23
Native Place: Glasgow
Occupation: Servant
Alias/AKA:
Surgeon’s Remarks: Mutinous and a prostitute
Mary Cain
Date of Trial: 26 April 1817
Where Tried: Glasgow Court of Justiciary
Crime: Theft
Sentence: 14 Years
Est YOB: 1794
Stated Age on Arrival: 23
Native Place: Glasgow
Occupation: Servant
Alias/AKA: Mary Kain
Surgeon’s Remarks: Industrious
Jean Hume
Date of Trial: 26 April 1817
Where Tried: Glasgow Court of Justiciary
Crime: Theft
Sentence: 7 Years
Est YOB: 1793
Stated Age on Arrival: 24
Native Place: Glasgow
Occupation: Servant
Alias/AKA: Jane Hume
Surgeon’s Remarks: Industrious
Jean Macdonald
Date of Trial: 19 April 1817
Where Tried: Perth Court Justiciary
Crime: Reset of Theft
Sentence: 7 Years
Est YOB: 1796
Stated Age on Arrival: 32
Native Place: Kilmarnock
Occupation: Country Servant
Alias/AKA: Jean/Jane Pedan, Jean/Jane Dunlop
Surgeon’s Remarks: A good nurse but given to theft
Elizabeth Robertson
Date of Trial: 23 September 1816
Where Tried: Stirling Court of Justiciary
Crime: Larceny
Sentence: 7 Years
Est YOB: 1795
Stated Age on Arrival: 23
Native Place: Stirling
Occupation: Servant
Alias/AKA: Elizabeth Robinson/Davidson
Surgeon’s Remarks: Well behaved and industrious)
WALES
Margaret Jones
Date of Trial: 5 April 1817
Where Tried: Denbighshire Great Session
Crime: Having forged bank notes
Sentence: 14 Years
Est YOB: 1787
Stated Age on Arrival: 31
Native Place:
Occupation: Needlework
Alias/AKA:
Surgeon’s Remarks: A very industrious and well-disposed woman (Nurse)
Sarah Chandler
Date of Trial: April 1817
Where Tried: Radnor Great Session
Crime: Forgery and escape from gaol
Sentence: Life
Est YOB: 1773
Stated Age on Arrival: 45
Native Place:
Occupation: Servant
Alias/AKA:
Surgeon’s Remarks: Quiet
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The Convicts
The Van Diemen’s Land Contingent
“Non Arrivals”
