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There are currently 6 researchers who have claimed Mary Edwards
- Researcher (Megan Tilley)
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Biographies
Mary Edwards was a convict aboard The Ship Mary Ann which sailed from England, on Wednesday, 16 February 1791 and arrived in Port Jackson on 9 July 1791, the first ship in the Third Fleet to arrive in Sydney. The ships Master was Mark Munroe.
Mary Edwards (maiden name Mary Hopely), wife of William Edwards, was born around 1766 in Herefordshire.
In August 1789, both of them were arrested in Leominster where they then lived, and charged (Hereford 9 MAR 1790) with stealing shoes etc from a shop. William was acquitted, Mary sentenced to 7 years' transportation. (It was that time in NSW history when the appeal had gone out for More Women, to redress the imbalance.) Mary was confined in Hereford Gaol until her departure aboard "Mary Ann" in February 1791.
She lived with James Freeman, eventually married Abraham Martin, she retained her first husbands name from England.
She had two children with James Freeman (Alexander 1788), Mary 1792-1801 and Berthina or Berthia 1794. Berthia married Timothy Hoy (Admiral Gambier, 1808). She had one child, Susannah 1800, with Abraham Martin.
Submitted by Researcher (Megan Tilley) on 12 May 2014
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