Date of Conviction: 16/10/1805

Age at Conviction: 30

Crime Convicted of: Theft from a Dwelling House

Court Convicted at: Lancaster Quarter Sessions (held at the New Bailey, Salford)

Sentence Length: 7 Years

Ship Transported on: Sydney Cove

Where Arrived: Port Jackson, New South Wales

Departure Date: 11/01/1807

Arrival Date: 18/06/1807

Biography: Mary was a single woman of Manchester who had stolen at Warrington. The order from Whitehall to remove Mary and others from Lancaster Castle came on the 3rd November and Mary boarded the ship (she was recorded as having a child with her).

Little is recorded about Mary’s first years; she can be found in 1811 at Port Dalrymple. She was still there in 1820 and is now recorded as the wife of poundkeeper/ constable Charles Fletcher (ship- Duke of Portland) and was free. However at some time in 1820/21 Charles died and in August 1822, Mary married John Earle (ship- Calcutta), Innkeeper of the Roseneath Inn and farmer. The Roseneath then passed to John’s cousin James Austin who he had been convicted with and later ran a ferry across the Derwent with and John took over the the Northampton Arms at ‘Compton’ (Kempton).

A mutual separation between John and Mary was announced in the newspapers in 1833 at their farm of Woodland Park. She then moved to a property at Green Ponds belonging to an Alfred Seaker who advised her to claim and pay for her belongings from his house in 1834, perhaps John and Mary had reconciled as in 1838, aged 63, Mary passed away at rear Green Ponds (Kempton) a ‘yeoman’s wife’. She was buried at St Mary’s Anglican cemetery in Kempton. In John’s 1840 will, some of his estate is left to his ward Charles Fletcher Howard who Mary brought up after Charles death.