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Mary HARRISON
She
was tried at
Old Bailey, London
on
19 October 1785 for assault and malicious damage with a value of 10 shillings.
She
was sentenced to transportation for
7 years
and left England on the
Lady Penrhyn
aged about 34 at that time (May 1787).
Her occupation was listed as silk winder.
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One of a pair of “abandoned characters” who threw some kind of acid on a woman saying “there are so many sly whores now it is impossible for a public whore to get her living”. Partner in the original crime was Charlotte Springmore.Although possibly married in England and with a teenage son Joseph who came with her, she married George Whitaker on 23 March 1788. They had at least 4 children.
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