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Jane LANGLEY
She
was tried at
Old Bailey, London
on
14 September 1785 for stealing cash with a value of 114 shillings.
She
was sentenced to transportation for
7 years
and left England on the
Lady Penrhyn
aged about 22 at that time (May 1787).
She had no occupation recorded. She died in 1836.
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Partner in the original crime was Mary Finn.Their victim accompanied them to Mary’s home, when he “felt a woman’s hand take money from his pocket”.She was described as a tall with very curly hair, “quite a black complexioned woman, and her hair grows over her forehead all rough.”Gave birth to child on 23 September 1787 (d 14 August 1821) whose father was a seaman.
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