Date of Conviction: 25/04/1815

Age at Conviction: 21

Crime Convicted of: Theft

Court Convicted at: Lancaster Quarter Sessions (held at the Old Town Hall, Ormskirk)

Sentence Length: 7 Years

Ship Transported on: Lord Melville

Where Arrived: Port Jackson, New South Wales

Departure Date: 29/08/1816

Arrival Date: 24/02/1817

Biography: Frances was a single woman of Liverpool. She travelled with her young daughter Mary. The year after arrival, in 1818, she had another child, Joseph and during these years was in and out of the female factory. In 1820, she married Thomas Shaw at St Johns, Parramatta and they went on to have four children together. Frances died (the inquest states ‘visitation of god’) in October 1835, aged around 41 and is buried in an unmarked plot in St John’s Cemetery, recorded as ‘a free joiner’s wife’.

Further Notes- Three women on the Lord Melville all married men called Thomas Shaw. Susan Brown married Thomas Shaw (Isabella) 1828, Frances Brown married Thomas Shaw (General Hewitt) 1820 and Mary Airyman married Thomas Shaw (Indefatigable) 1820.