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Ann FOWLES
She
was tried at
Old Bailey, London
on
6 April 1785 for stealing clothing with a value of 56 shillings.
She
was sentenced to transportation for
7 years
and left England on the
Lady Penrhyn
aged about 22 at that time (May 1787).
Her occupation was listed as hawker. She died in 1826(?).
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She was transported with her four year old daughter.For a number of years she lived with John Ruglass.On 13 February 1789 she received 25 lashes for abusing a sentinel; on 25 June, for stealing clothing it was 50 lashes on three successive Thursdays , her head shaved and a cap with the word THIEF on it; on 27 April 1790 25 lashes for allowing pigs in her garden and 75 lashes on 15 February 1791 for stealing and killing a hen.
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