Date of Conviction: 14/03/1835

Age at Conviction: 46

Crime Convicted of: Putting Off Forged Coins

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

Sentence Length: Life

Ship Transported on: Henry Wellesley

Where Arrived: N/A

Departure Date: 23/09/1835

Arrival Date: N/A

Biography: Mary, a cotton worker, had sold and put out two counterfeit half crowns at Manchester and had been discovered with a mould for making them.

Onboard ship, she was described by the ship’s surgeon as ‘a miserable old woman’. She had an eye infection, scrofula and later atrophy. She died at sea 27th December 1835.

The surgeon’s log recorded Mary’s decline as thus-

Ship surgeon log- 25/12/1835. A miserable old woman who has spent the greater part of her life in a cotton manufactury and been afflicted with scrofula from infancy. Has three or four scrofulous sores about the neck which discharged a little. Has been nursed ever since she came on board (3 months) with wine, sago, rice and has frequently taken opium pills to her bowels in order. She complains of constant soreness in the pit of her stomach to which a warm plaster is applied. The insiform cartilige is turned outwards. She has been gradually wasting and for the last fortnight has been confined to bed. Appetite bad, bowels relaxed, and frequent sickness of stomach. Has taken concentrated soup, wine, cordials and an opiate at bedtime. 26th- is very low today, voice merely a whisper. Will take nothing but a little wine. Complains of rawness in her hips. Given tincture of opium in wine and water. 27th- worse today, bowels relaxed in the night. can scarely speak, refuses all medicine. took a little tea for breakfast at noon. Died. Owing to the motion of the ship the body was not examined.