Mary Ann Wade
Born 5 October 1777, Southwark, London, England
Died 17 December 1859, Fairy Meadow, New South Wales, Australia
On 5 October 1788, Mary Wade stole a cotton frock, a linen tippet and a linen cap from another 8 year old child.
The items were valued at three shillings and four pence in total, and were the property of John Forward, Mary’s father.
The frock was sold to a pawnbroker for 18 pence, but an Officer of the Law found the tippet in Mary’s room and she was arrested. She was found guilty at her trial on 14 January 1789 at the Old Bailey, and was sentenced to death by hanging.
On 16 March 1789, all the women on death row, including Mary Wade, had their sentences commuted to penal transportation to Australia.
She was included in the convict ship Lady Juliana which left Plymouth on 29 July 1789, and arrived in Australia in June 1790.
Mary went on to have a family of her own, the first being Sarah Wade born in 1793, and from her 21 children, 7 of them went on to have children of their own.
Mary died at the age of 82, on 17th December 1859, at their 62 acres property in Illawarra, NSW.
One of Mary Ann Wades descendants was Kevin Rudd, Prime Minister of Australia 2007-2010. http://primeministers.naa.gov.au
Links:
http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/browse.jsp?id=t17890114-58-off300&div=t17890114-58
Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 6.0, 24 July 2011),
14th January 1789, trial of MARY WADE JANE WHITING (Reference Number:t17890114-58).
Violent Theft > highway robbery.
http://www.historyaustralia.org.au/twconvic/Lady+Juliana+1790
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