Date of Conviction: 20/07/1803

Age at Conviction: 25

Crime Convicted of: Theft

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

Sentence Length: 7 Years

Ship Transported on: William Pitt

Where Arrived: Port Jackson, New South Wales

Departure Date: 10/08/1805

Arrival Date: 11/04/1806

Biography: Lucy, stole a piece of wrapper, the property of William Roberts. She was a single woman of Manchester. Lucy had already been imprisoned twice in the New Bayley in 1799 and 1802 . She was held at Lancaster Castle for two years before being sent to Spithead with eight other women from the castle in July 1805.

Upon arrival, Lucy was sent to the government hospital at Castle Hill. Lucy was noted as a widow in 1817 and 1818, and a servant to Thomas Hughes in 1822 and throughout, gained her freedom and by 1825 was then recorded as married to William Adams (ship- Batavia).

The situation is much more complicated as found within a petition in 1824 from William who had been accused of receiving stolen goods and sent to Port Macquarie via Newcastle in late 1821. William stated that he and Lucy had been married at Manchester 17 years before (no records found) and after his arrival in 1818 they had a child; Francis, in 1821 (who was later put in the Male Orphan School at Cabramatta and died there in 1829). In the petition to the governor claiming his innocence, he stated that he had a wife and child (Francis) to care for. Notes in the margins also say that Lucy (a washer woman) had married a soldier of the 73rd Regiment and had also had another child, Richard, in 1810 who had also been given up to the Male Orphan School and if she married again would be sent to the female factory.

Prior to William’s arrival in the colony, Lucy had also received permission to marry convict James Lawrence (no actual record of marriage found) and whilst William was under his colonial sentence, she and convict James Barnes (ship- Agamemnon) married in 1822. James was assigned to her at Brickfield Hill to work quarrying but this arrangement and probably the marriage too ended in 1824. Five years later, James was executed for highway robbery. In 1827, Lucy was also in court, accused of stealing a chemise, but the case was discharged.

With such a confused marital record it is not possible to find further records of Lucy at this time.