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Details for the convict Frances Brown (1817)

Convict Name:Frances Brown
Trial Place:Lancaster Quarter Sessions
Trial Date:25 April 1815
Sentence:7 years
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Arrival Details
Ship:Lord Melville I (1)
Arrival Year:1817
 
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France Brown was from Liverpool.

On the 25th of April 1815 she was sentenced to “transportation to some part beyond the seas for the space of seven years” for felony. Frances Brown was sent to Australia on the Lord Melville in August 1816. She arrived on the 24th of February 1817 with her baby daughter, Mary.

For the next few years she lived and worked at the Parramatta Female Factory. Her son Joseph was born during this time in 1818.

On the 6 Mar 1820 , at age 26 she was granted permission to marry Thomas Shaw, and they were married at St Johns Church of England, Parramatta on the 12th June 1820.

By the time of the 1828 census Frances (34) was listed as being married to Thomas Shaw (45) and having 6 children: Mary Brown (15), Joseph Brown (10), Thomas Shaw (8), John Shaw (4), Anne Shaw (3) and James Shaw (5 months).

Frances died in 1835 at the age of 41.


References:
New South Wales Government. 1828 Census: Householders’ returns [Population and Statistics, Musters and Census Records, Census, Colonial Secretary] . Series 1273, Reels 2551-2552, 2506-2507. State Records Authority of New South Wales. Kingswood, New South Wales, Australia.

Settlers and Convicts, New South Wales and Tasmania; (The National Archives Microfilm Publication HO10, Pieces 5, 19-20, 32-51); The National Archives of the UK (TNA), Kew, Surrey, England.

Parish Marriage Registers. Textual records. St. John’s Anglican Church Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia.
Reference Number: REG/COMP/1; Description: Vol 01, Baptisms, 1790-1825; Marriages, 1789-1823; Burials, 1790-1825; Parish: St. John's Anglican Church Parramatta

Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 88, Class and Piece Number HO11/2, Page Number 274

Lancashire Quarter Sessions Records and Petitions, 17th–19th Century. Microfilm. Lancashire Record Office, Preston, England.

New South Wales Government. Registers of Coroners’ Inquests and Magisterial Inquiries, 1834–1942 (microfilm, NRS 343, rolls 2921–2925, 2225, 2763–2769). State Records Authority of New South Wales, Kingswood, New South Wales, Australia. New South Wales Government. Sydney City Coroner: Registers of Inquests and Inquiries, 1862–1926 (microfilm, NRS 1783, rolls 1391–1396).

Submitted by Researcher (S. Tynan) on 22 August 2015

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Sources

  • The National Archives (TNA) : HO 11/2, p.274

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