Date of Conviction: 12/08/1833

Age at Conviction: 17

Crime Convicted of: Receiving Stolen Goods

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

Sentence Length: 7 Years

Ship Transported on: Numa

Where Arrived: Sydney Cove, New South Wales

Departure Date: 03/12/1833

Arrival Date: 13/06/1834

Biography: Charlotte had taken in 15 stolen pairs of shoes at Bolton belonging to a John Makinson. The shoes had been stolen by two older men. She was described as being unable to read or write, a protestant, single, a native of Manchester and a housemaid. She did not have any previous convictions. She was 5’2” tall, with a ruddy & freckled complexion, dark brown hair, hazel eyes, a scar on the right side of her forehead, a red mark on her upper arm and a scar on the inside forefinger of her left hand. Charlotte’s older brother, John, had been transported 12 years before (presumed on ship- Mary).

Charlotte who lived at Bathurst, applied to marry a 41 year old Thomas Dean (ship- Countess of Harcourt) when she was 18 in 1833 but the marriage did not go ahead. Charlotte had a son, Benjamin, in May 1835 with convict Benjamin Holloway (ship- Asia). She again applied to marry when she was 21 to Henry Jordan (ship- Mary) in 1836 (though this also did not go ahead). In 1837, Charlotte was recorded as being in the Bathurst Female Factory. Charlotte and Henry had a son, John in 1839 who died at one year old.

She gained a certificate of freedom in March 1842 but was briefly imprisoned for three days for drunkenness in early 1843. She had a child, John with Matthew Wild (ship- Mangles) in 1844.

In 1849, Charlotte’s brother John died in Sydney. This same year, now at Maitland, under the name Charlotte Jordan, she was given a month’s jail sentence for being a drunk, idle and disorderly person- it being her fourth offence; interestingly she was charged alongside a Thomas Dean- possibly the first person she had applied to marry? The following year in February 1850, Charlotte (described as a loose woman) was travelling in a covered dray from Morpeth, whilst drunk and falling, her leg entangled in the wheel, severely crushing it. She was taken to the Maitland hospital where they aimed to amputate but in a deep state of shock she died on the 15th February. She had told the staff before she died that she was pregnant but had long been separated from her husband. She was recorded as aged 32, though was probably about 34/35. An inquest was held which ruled that the dray driver was guily of manslaughter. Charlotte was buried at the Glebe Cemetery, Maitland.