Date of Conviction: 18/04/1825

Age at Conviction: 17

Crime Convicted of: Theft

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

Sentence Length: 7 Years

Ship Transported on: Remained in England

Where Arrived: N/A

Departure Date: N/A

Arrival Date: N/A

Biography: Mary Ann along with Jemima Davies stole money from Jonathan Hayton at Manchester. They had led him to a public house, then a house of ‘ill-fame’ before turning him over to men there who robbed him of £2 11 shillings. Mary Ann was described as having been born at Manchester and had lived on James Street in Liverpool and was now living on Turner Street, Manchester. She had a fresh complexion, grey eyes, brown hair, was 5ft 3 and was pitted with smallpox and had a large scar over left eyebrow. She was an unmarried worker in a brickfield and could read. A petition was written by friends of Mary Ann claiming Jemima was the principal of the theft and had led Mary Ann astray and Mary Ann was ignorant and not perfectly sane. they said she had no previous involvement with the law. Over fifty people signed the petition seeking mitigation.

Petition refused, Mary Ann was sent to Millbank jail in London on the 8th July from where she was first recommended for a pardon in August 1828 but was finally pardoned and discharged on the 10th May 1830 and had been described as well behaved and had friends or employment to go to. Her friend, Jemima, died due to a disease of the stomach caused by alcohol in February 1826.