Date of Conviction: 16/01/1826

Age at Conviction: 25

Crime Convicted of: Theft

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

Sentence Length: 7 Years

Ship Transported on: Grenada (2)

Where Arrived: Sydney Cove, New South Wales

Departure Date: 01/09/1826

Arrival Date: 23/01/1827

Biography: Mary Ann had pick pocketed two shillings and six pence from John Tattersall at Manchester. Whilst she was in jail at Lancaster Castle her description was taken. She said she had been born at sea and had a fresh complexion with brown hair, grey eyes, skin pitted from smallpox and two small brown moles near her left elbow. She had already been jailed in the New Bailey three times before.

During the early part of the voyage, the ship’s surgeon recorded that Mary Ann was suffering from dysentery. She was purged with magnesium sulphate and treated by blood letting and a catheter. She was deemed well by October 18th but symptoms began again later that month and she was treated again with mag.sulphate, blood letting and calomel. By the 16th November she was discharged off the sick list as fit for duty again.

Mary Ann married soon after arrival in August 1827 to convict Richard Hodgson (ship- Eliza) at Castlereagh. However, in October 1828, she was in the female factory at Parramatta. her husband was still in Castlereagh as a groom to a local publican.

By 1832, Mary Ann was given permission to remain in Evan parish, where she held a ticket of leave. The following year, in January 1833 she received her certificate of freedom. Further details at this time, now aged 34, stated that she had been born in America and was a house servant. her physical description was similar as before, though with the addition that she had ‘short teeth’. Following Richard’s conditional pardon in 1835, it has not been possible to follow their trail further.