Date of Conviction: 25/10/1815

Age at Conviction: 19

Crime Convicted of: Theft

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

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: Mary Ann, a weaver, stole a watch a banknote from a Joseph Butterworth at Manchester.

She gave birth to a daughter called Frances whilst at the Parramatta female factory in 1819 and married the father, Edward Dowlan/also Dowlin/Doolan (convict on Britannia tried at Lifford, Donegal for life) the following year. They had a son in 1823. Mary Ann gained her certificate of freedom in 1824 and later that year moved to be near Port Macquarie penal colony where her husband was under sentence for two years. In 1827, she was sent to the female factory at Parramatta for a month for ‘living in a state of prostitution’. The following year she was as lodger with her son at Kent St. Her husband had received an exemption from government labour in 1830 but due to a theft in 1832 was made to work again and refusals saw him sent back to Parramatta jail and Port Macquarie. After his probable death in 1847, Mary may have remarried though looks to have died in 1856.