Date of Conviction: 21/03/1812

Age at Conviction: 35

Crime Convicted of: Uttering

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

Sentence Length: Life

Ship Transported on: Emu and then Broxbornebury

Where Arrived: Port Jackson, New South Wales

Departure Date: 11/11/1812

Arrival Date: 28/07/1814

Biography: Like all the women onboard the Emu, Margaret was repatriated back to Woolwich after the ship had been captured at Cape Verde. The women were later put onboard the Broxbornebury which transported them to Australia, collectively resulting in the longest duration voyage for a convict.

Margaret, a housekeeper, who lived in a court off Blundell St, Liverpool and was married to Nicholas Cunningham, had a death sentence reprieve. She had uttered a forged £1 bank note in Mr Quirk’s pawnbroker’s shop at Bridgewater St at Liverpool in attempt to pay for a man’s coat, having two others in her possession, and had pleaded not guilty though could not say anything in her defence other than she had recently traded them for Irish notes whilst in Ireland.

Margaret remarried (though no marriage record was found) William Stenson (Archduke Charles) and together they farmed at Parramatta. Margaret had a ticket of leave in 1825. Margaret’s husband died in 1855 though no record of Margaret’s death has as yet been found.