Date of Conviction: 20/03/1813

Age at Conviction: 25

Crime Convicted of: Theft

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

Sentence Length: 7 Years

Ship Transported on: Wanstead

Where Arrived: Port Jackson, New South Wales

Departure Date: 01/08/1813

Arrival Date: 09/01/1814

Biography: Lucy was charged with stealing 39 bank notes, to the value of £80 from John Spears of Liverpool. A Sarah Heaney who she was tried alongside, was acquitted. Lucy was recorded in the ship’s indent as a housemaid and nine months after arrival, she was listed In the 1814 muster as “Louisa Williams”, a servant assigned to a Mr Bayly at Parramatta. In August 1815, Lucy (as Louisa) married tailor William Holt (ship- General Hewitt) at St Philips, Sydney. William had also been tried at Lancaster Assizes.

By 1816, she was a servant at Sydney to Simeon Lord Esq- himself a convict who had done very well for himself and was now a successful merchant and magistrate. Lord happened to be her husband’s employer so it suggests he had given permission for Lucy and William to live together in his employment. By 1819 and 21, Lucy was recorded as being married and living at Windsor. In 1822, now free, she was listed as a housekeeper- her husband was still a life prisoner so presumably he was now assigned to her but they were in their own house. sadly, in November 1825, Lucy’s husband William died.

We hear no further about Lucy’s life. There is a potential death record for a Lucy Williams, aged 55 within St Lawrence’s parish Sydney, in 1843, which may be this Lucy.