Mary Ann Smith

MARY ANN SMITH was a convict woman who was tried and convicted at Northumberland (Town of Newcastle upon Tyne) Quarter Sessions on 11 July 1821 and sentenced to seven years transportation per Mary Anne I (2) (1822). In the colony she was repeatedly incarcerated at the Parramatta Female Factory.

Names

  • Alternate: MARY ANNE SMITH

Timeline

  • Tried and convicted: 11 July 1821, Northumberland Quarter Sessions, England
  • Sentenced to seven years transportation
  • Sailed to the colony of New South Wales per Mary Anne I (2): 25 December 1821, Portsmouth, England
  • Arrived in Van Diemen’s Land where 45 of her fellow female convicts were landed before continuing on to Port Jackson: 2 May 1822,
  • One of 62 of the female convicts still on board Mary Anne I (2) who arrived in the colony of New South Wales : 20 May 1822, Port Jackson, New South Wales
  • Assigned from the Factory: c. 13 January 1826, Parramatta Female Factory
  • Committed to gaol for “Escaping the Guard of the Coach after being assigned from the Factory”: 13 January 1826, Sydney Gaol, New South Wales
  • Sent to the Parramatta Female Factory: 14 January 1826, Third Class, Parramatta Female Factory

Law Reports

  • “Classified Advertising,” Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser (NSW: 1803 – 1842), Thursday 29 December 1825, p. 3.
  • “THE POLICE,” Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser (NSW: 1803 – 1842), Thursday 19 January 1826, p. 3.
  • “Police Reports. SYDNEY,” Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser (NSW: 1803 – 1842), Saturday 23 September 1826, p. 3.
  • “Police Reports. SYDNEY,” Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser (NSW: 1803 – 1842), Thursday 1 March 1827, p. 2.
  • “POLICE INCIDENTS,” Sydney Herald (NSW: 1831 – 1842), Monday 16 April 1832, p. 2.

Miscellaneous

  • According to a lengthy article entitled “Mysterious Murder” on 14 December 1831, for a while Mary Ann Smith’s husband thought she had met a very bad end at the bottom of a well. ANNE DARBY, another Female Factory inmate, also appears in the article along with some other former Factory girls. Read the full article here >>

Sources

  • New South Wales Government, Entrance books [Sydney Gaol], Series: 2514, Reel: 851, (State Records Authority of New South Wales, Kingswood, New South Wales, Australia).

Lists

# Convict

# Punishment: Seven Years Transportation

# Ship: Mary Anne I (2) (1822)

# Parramatta Female Factory

# Repeat Offender

# Year: 1826

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