Date of Conviction: 23/10/1816

Age at Conviction: 16

Crime Convicted of: Theft

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

Sentence Length: 7 Years

Ship Transported on: Friendship (2)

Where Arrived: Port Jackson, New South Wales

Departure Date: 03/07/1817

Arrival Date: 14/01/1818

Biography: Sarah, a fustian cutter and single woman from Manchester had stolen bank notes. Along with Ruth Guest, Mary Ann Buckley and Mary Sharpe broke through locks in the dungeon tower at Lancaster Castle and got onto the roof, claiming, when captured, that ‘they just wanted to see the fine prospect’. After their escape attempt, they were kept in irons until departure.

Following the voyage, where there was widespread misconduct between sailors and the woman, the reports from the enquiry which followed said Sarah was “lazy, scrofulous and epileptic”.

Straight after arrival, Sarah was sent on the Duke of Wellington to the Derwent River, Van Diemen’s Land. Soon after that arrival, she had to sit in the stocks for two hours and was jailed for a week for being drunk and disorderly. The year after in 1819, Sarah married Peter Ogilvie (ship- Indefatigable) at St Johns, Launceston. Sarah received her certificate of freedom in 1824 but now free, that year and the next had several fines for being drunk and disorderly and on the 4th occasion, was sent to the Georgetown female factory for four weeks. Whilst at the factory, Sarah passed away and was buried nearby on the 12th January 1826, aged just 25.