Date of Conviction: 25/10/1819

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: Morley

Where Arrived: Port Jackson, New South Wales

Departure Date: 17/05/1820

Arrival Date: 30/09/1820

Biography: Mary was a single woman from Manchester. She had pick-pocketed £5 and a handkerchief from a William Houldsworth along with another man and woman who both received jail sentences. She left Lancaster Castle along with eleven other convict women at the end of April 1820 and arrived on board ship on the 28th of that month. Ship surgeon Thomas Reid described the Lancaster women as displaying ‘riotous conduct and mischievous behaviour’.

She was assigned to general service on arrival and had been given a report as ‘very good’ by Reid. Despite the good report, Mary was sent to the Parramatta Female Factory where she still was in 1821. By the following year though, she was recorded as the wife of William Dixon at Parramatta (ship- General Hewitt); they had married at St Johns the previous January. In 1825 she was listed as a general servant to William (a shoemaker).

Mary died, free, in late August 1828; she was buried on the 27th August at St Johns Cemetery, recorded as age 32.