Date of Conviction: 04/09/1813

Age at Conviction: 46

Crime Convicted of: Theft

Court Convicted at: Lancaster Assizes (held at Lancaster Castle)

Sentence Length: 7 Years

Ship Transported on: Broxbornebury

Where Arrived: Port Jackson, New South Wales

Departure Date: 22/02/1814

Arrival Date: 28/07/1814

Biography: Peggy (officially Margaret) stole 60lb of linen yarn from bleaching grounds at Pemberton, the property of Thomas Walker. Lawrence Carle who received the yarn turned king’s evidence against her.

She was initially put in the female factory upon arrival. Peggy was a witness to the marriage of fellow convict of the Broxbornebury, Maria Garner. Peggy lived with a schoolmaster, William Stabler at Parramatta as a married couple after his first wife, restauranteer, Rosetta Stabler died in 1810. Peggy was eventually free by servitude and the couple married officially at St Johns in 1821, she signed with an ‘x’. in 1822 they petitioned the Governor for funds to return home in steerage which was granted. Sadly Peggy appears to have died before they could sail around 1823- oddly the death record records her as Rosetta Stabler, the same as William’s first wife. William returned back to England alone.