Date of Conviction: 19/07/1813

Age at Conviction: 24

Crime Convicted of: Theft

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

Sentence Length: 7 Years

Ship Transported on: Broxbornebury

Where Arrived: Port Jackson, New South Wales

Departure Date: 22/02/1814

Arrival Date: 28/07/1814

Biography: Mary was a single woman from Liverpool and had stolen along with another man. She already had a long history of thefts.

The year after arrival in May 1815, Mary married carpenter James Leek (ship- Guildford) at St Philips, Sydney and they had a daughter, Elizabeth. They would go on to have eight more children together. In 1816 Mary was sent to the female factory but in 1817 she is recorded as a nurse. 1818 she is simply noted as a servant. By 1825, Mary is now free by servitude.

James died in 1858 and Mary passed away in September 1865 at home in Palmer Street, at Woolloomooloo, aged 71. The newspapers described her a ‘an old and much respected colonist’. She was buried near her husband in Camperdown Cemetery.