Date of Conviction: 09/05/1791

Age at Conviction: Unknown

Crime Convicted of: Theft

Court Convicted at: Lancaster Quarter Sessions (held at the Old Town Hall, Ormskirk)

Sentence Length: 7 Years

Ship Transported on: Pitt

Where Arrived: Port Jackson, New South Wales

Departure Date: 17/07/1791

Arrival Date: 14/02/1792

Biography: Mary who used the alias Mary Williams was from Warrington. She had stolen a piece of printed cotton cloth worth ten pence, belonging to Frances Lowndes. She was already being held at Lancaster Castle prior to her trial before being taken to Ormskirk and then back to Lancaster again.

There is very little on Mary in New South Wales. There is a record in the Norfolk Island victualing book that says she was there from 1792 and in 1795 and was ‘sick with [blank]’. Whilst a Mary Jones did pass away there in 1795, this appears to be Southampton’s Mary Jones of the Third Fleet’s ‘Mary Ann’ unless an administrative error was made. With no further records in NSW though, this does suggest Mary died on Norfolk Island.