Date of Conviction: 22/08/1828

Age at Conviction: 35

Crime Convicted of: Uttering Forged Coins

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

Sentence Length: Life

Ship Transported on: Lady of the Lake

Where Arrived: Van Diemen’s Land (Tasmania)

Departure Date: 06/06/1829

Arrival Date: 01/11/1829

Biography: Margaret Carr, also known at different times as Margaret Coddington/Codrington was convicted and transported with Elizabeth Tod of uttering fake coins at Liverpool and had a death sentence reprieved. Margaret took onboard her young child, also called Margaret (Coddington). The ship’s surgeon reported that the child ”was aged 9 months, case number 2: disease or hurt, marasmus [seasickness]. Received on board on 31 May 1829 with her mother a convict of the same name. She was observed to be unwell about four months since, and it appears, that she was weaned at three months old. The mother brought no case with her from the surgeon of the prison in which she was confined. Put on sick list, 31 May 1829. Died 21 June 1829”.

Margaret was described as being 5 ft 2 with a pale complexion and a long face, dark brown hair and eyebrows, grey eyes, a long nose and chin and she had a small scar of the forefinger of her left hand. She was a servant of all work. The jail report that had come with her from Lancaster stated that she had been convicted twice before and that she had very bad connections, she was married and had had six children. in 1830 she was give a week’s imprisonment on bread and water in the house of correction for absconding from her employer and being found in another house. In 1832, she received 6 days in a cell for being found drunk. In 1834 she was given 1 month at the washtub for insolence and finally in 1835 she received another month at the wash tub for being in a public house on a Sunday. She got a ticket of leave in 1837 and appears on the 1841 muster but after a long gap, had it revoked in 1854 for failing to appear at the muster.