Date of Conviction: 02/08/1819

Age at Conviction: 35

Crime Convicted of: Theft

Court/s Convicted at: Lancaster Quarter Sessions (held at the Town Hall, Liverpool)

Sentence Length: 7 Years

Ship Transported on: Morley

Where Arrived: Hobart, Van Diemen’s Land (Tasmania)

Departure Date: 17/05/1820

Arrival Date: 29/08/1820

Biography: Margaret was the wife of George Wood from Warrington. She had stolen from a William Pilling.

She left Lancaster Castle along with eleven other convict women at the end of April 1820 and arrived on board ship on the 28th that month. Ship surgeon Thomas Reid described the Lancaster women as displaying ‘riotous conduct and mischievous behaviour’.

Margaret was given report of ‘excellent’ and assigned to a Mr Rowley for either general service or farm work though two months after arrival, Margaret was jailed with hard labour for two months for being drunk and neglecting her duty. This was however, her only infraction as a convict.

The following year in October, 1821, Margaret married convict William Tucker (ship- Lord Melville) at Hobart; it is not clear whether she was still married to her husband of two years previous or not at the point of their marriage. They were recorded as living at the Lower Clyde (Hamilton) but after this, records of Margaret disappear.