Date of Conviction: 01/09/1819

Age at Conviction: 30

Crime Convicted of: Uttering Forged Notes

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

Sentence Length: 14 Years

Ship Transported on: Morley

Where Arrived: Port Jackson, New South Wales

Departure Date: 17/05/1820

Arrival Date: 30/09/1820

Biography: Mary had tried to use two forged £1 bank notes as payment to Ann Collins and Mary Mason and had another in her possession at Manchester. She left Lancaster Castle with 11 other Lancaster convict women at the end of April 1820 and was put onboard ship on the 28th of that month. Ship surgeon Thomas Reid described the Lancaster women as displaying ‘riotous conduct and mischievous behaviour’.

The year of arrival, Mary was in the female factory and was still there the next year. By 1822 and also in 1825, she was recorded as the wife of baker Richard Carter (ship- General Stewart) in Sydney. Mary was sent to the female factory in September 1825 for being illegally at large. She officially married Richard in November 1826 at St Johns, Parramatta (they were common law until this time). She received a ticket of leave in 1827, at which point she was described as a native of Cheshire and a servant, 4ft 11 tall with a fair ruddy complexion, sandy brown hair and brown eyes this was rescinded in 1829 when she was accused of adultery by her husband. Richard legally separated from Mary at this stage, announced in the newspaper (though calling her Ann rather than Mary) permitting her an allowance.

Where she went after that time, it’s not certain, though a Mary Taylor/Carter did marry a William Davis in March 1834 at the Sydney Scots Kirk. Richard Carter, Mary’s ex- husband had died only a month earlier.