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Esther ABRAHAMS
She
was tried at
Old Bailey, London
on
30 August 1786 for stealing lace with a value of 50 shillings.
She
was sentenced to transportation for
7 years
and left England on the
Prince of Wales
aged about 20 at that time (May 1787).
Her occupation was listed as milliner. She died in 1846.
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Jewish. Travelled with daughter (1787-1837).De facto and later legal wife of Lt George Johnston of the Marines.Described by her grandson as “always a stirring industrious woman”.
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