Date of Conviction: 19/01/1824

Age at Conviction: 26

Crime Convicted of: Theft from the Person

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

Sentence Length: 14 Years

Ship Transported on: Grenada (1)

Where Arrived: Sydney Cove, New South Wales

Departure Date: 25/09/1824

Arrival Date: 23/01/1825

Biography: Mary, had pick-pocketed a purse at Manchester containing 100 sovereigns. She was a weaver and had been born in London but brought up in Manchester. She was described whilst in Lancaster Castle as having a sallow complexion with grey eyes, brown hair and curiously, was recorded as wearing large earrings. She had a very rough face, much marked with smallpox and was a single woman. She had been imprisoned at Salford three times already. She was noted as being in good health.

After initially being placed in the female factory, Mary married fellow Lancastrian, Moses Powell (ship- Morley) at Parramatta in June, the year of arrival. In 1828, the couple lived at Parramatta and had another convict assigned to them. Mary received her certificate of freedom in June 1839, now 42, she was again described as a seamstress, 5ft 4, fair, ruddy faced, freckled and pockpitted with hazel eyes, dark brown hair and she had a diagonal scar on the left side of her chin and was now very deaf.

Mary died at her home on Marsden Street, Parramatta in October 1850, aged 49 and is buried with her husband Moses and others in St John’s Cemetery under a headstone.