Date of Conviction: 21/03/1812

Age at Conviction: 35

Crime Convicted of: Receiving Stolen Goods

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

Sentence Length: 14 Years

Ship Transported on: Emu then Broxbornebury

Where Arrived: Port Jackson, New South Wales

Departure Date: 11/11/1812

Arrival Date: 28/07/1814

Biography: Mary (also Greaves/Greeves) had narrowly avoided transportation along with her husband, John in 1810 when a case of theft against them was dismissed had but the following year in 1811, John was sentenced to transportation. In 1812, perhaps, thinking of joining her husband, she had received stolen iron, copper and other items at Liverpool. She had been a lodging house keeper on the Liverpool docks and had hidden the stolen goods in her cellar after agreeing to hide the stolen goods thieved by one of her lodgers.

Like all the women originally transported on the Emu, the ship was captured at Cape Verde, Mary and all the other prisoners were repatriated back to Woolwich where they were then transferred onto Broxbornebury- making it a two year journey for them.

Back in England, Mary’s husband John, was still imprisoned but was pardoned whilst onboard the hulk Captivity at Portsmouth in 1816, leaving Mary to begin a new life in New South Wales, co-habiting with Joseph Wharton (ship- General Hewitt) and having two boys together. Joseph was a fairly successful carpenter/ overseer and they held land at Kissing Point. Mary died in October 1825.