Date of Conviction: 19/07/1809

Age at Conviction: 15

Crime Convicted of: Theft

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

Sentence Length: 7 Years

Ship Transported on: Canada

Where Arrived: Port Jackson, New South Wales

Departure Date: 23/03/1810

Arrival Date: 08/09/1810

Biography: Mary had stolen from a Mr Brownhill at Salford.

She lived with Thomas Harris (ship- Neptune) from around 1818 and they had two children in the colony, one in 1818 and the other in 1821 but was left widowed and destitute in December 1820. In 1822 she petitioned for John Rowling (Rowland/s) (ship- Neptune 1820), a convict who was a ‘distant relative’ to be allowed to go to her as he had supported her since her husband’s disease and expressed that she was industrious and had lived honestly and was now free by servitude. The governor recommended that she be married to John.

By 1828 and free, she was living in Philip St, Sydney with John as her husband and her eldest daughter (aged 11) and two more boys (aged 5 and 3 months). The couple had had and lost another daughter the year earlier. Mary was again left alone when John was sent to Norfolk Island for 7 seven years for manslaughter in 1830.