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About Isabella (Mason) Rowe, Convict "Lady Juliana" 1790
Second Fleet Convict on "Lady Juliana" under the alias 'Isabella Smith' 7 JUly 1790
Manson, Isabella Entry 5360 Sex: F Alias: Born: 1759 at : Bapt: at: Died: 15 June 1847 at: Popran Creek, NSW Buried: -- June 1847 at: Gosford, NSW Conviction Details
Status on Arrival: Convict Ship: Lady Juliana - 1790 Crime: Steal 4 coats, a waistcoat, breeches, nightgown & other items Sentence: 7 years Tried at: Old Bailey Trial Date: 27 February 1788 Parent Details
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Known Number of Marriages/Partners 1 Known Number of Children 5 Entry Partners Name Marriage Date Marriage Place FGS 872 Rowe, John 12 July 1790 St Phillip's, Sydney, NSW NOTES:
July 1791 - Isabella was resident in Sydney when she gave evidence at the trial of William WATKINS for burglary April 1792 - Isabella and her husband were settled on a 30 acre farm (by grant to her husband) at the Northern Boundary Farms 1797 - Her husband received an additional grant of 60 acres at Prospect 1800 - They were mustered as having only 5 acres of their Prospect farm planted 1806 - Mustered in the Hawkesbury River district where they leased a 22 acre farm December 1808 - Isabella's husband John ROWE received a grant of 100 acres at Prospect from the anti-Bligh regime January 1810 - Isabella petitioned Governor Macquarie for confirmation of the grant. She stated that her husband was confined to bed and further asked that her family and their assigned convict, Michael HIGGINS, be placed back on Public rations. John ROWE died at Sydney a few weeks after Isabella had signed the petition 1814 & 1822 - Described as a widow resident in the Windsor area.
Isabella Manson was sentenced to seven years transportation at the February 1788 Old Bailey Sessions for the theft of four coats, one waistcoat, a pair of breeches, a woolen nightgown, a petticoat, an apron and a pillow case. Manson and a man with the suspiciously common name of John smith claimed to be married when they rented a furnished room from a watchmaker in Dean Street, near Shadwell Church, for five weeks prior to 12 January 1788. They left without giving notice and were arrested when pawn tickets for some of the missing items were found on Manson. At a committal hearing at Shadwell Public Office, Manson, who was able to sign her name, said John Smith was innocent of the whole. She claimed that the landlord’s daughter had given her the items to pawn to obtain cash for lottery tickets while her mother was away. Asked why she had not mentioned that on her arrest, she replied I was flurried. At Sydney on 12 July 1790, less than six weeks after landing in the colony, Mason married the First Fleet convict John Rowe (b1757, tried Cornwall), both were literate, signing their names to the register.
Following: The Founders of Australia - A Biographical Dictionary of the First Fleet; Mollie Gillen: Library of Australian History, Sydney 1989,
Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 16 September 2020), February 1788, trial of ISABELLA MANSON (t17880227-89).
ISABELLA MANSON, Theft > grand larceny, 27th February 1788. 229. ISABELLA MANSON was indicted for stealing, on the 5th of January , four cloth coats, value 10 s. a cloth waistcoat, value 3 s. a pair of cloth breeches, value 3 s. a woollen night-gown, value 6 s. a linen petticoat, value 2 s. and a linen pillow-case, value 4 d. the property of Daniel Earle ; and a linen apron, value 2 s. the property of Elizabeth Earle , spinster .
(The witnesses were examined apart at the request of the prisoner.)
DANIEL EARLE sworn.
The prisoner came to lodge with me about a fortnight before Christmas; she was with me about five weeks; she went away on Saturday, the 12th of January; she left the door locked; my daughter found the key in a corner by the room door; we had some suspicion she was gone, and we opened the door, and missed the things mentioned in the indictment (repeating them); she was searched before the Justice, and several duplicates were found upon her, by which some of the things were found again.
ELIZABETH EARLE sworn.
When the prisoner left our house, I missed the things mentioned in the indictment.
William Burlen , a pawnbroker, produced an apron and petticoat, which he had in pledge of the prisoner, and which were deposed to by Elizabeth Earle .
- COLE sworn.
I searched the prisoner, and found three duplicates upon her.
(Producing them.)
PRISONER's DEFENCE.
Soon after I came to lodge at this house, that young woman's mother went out of town; the young woman desired me to pawn these things for her, which I did; she desired me to keep the duplicates, for she might lose them; some time afterwards, I asked her if I should fetch the things out; she said, no; she had been guilty of pawning three pounds and a half worth of property of her parents to put in the lottery; since I have been taken up, her father and mother said, if I would give them two guineas they would make it up; if not, they would hang me if they could.
Court to Elizabeth Earle . Is there any truth in this? - I deny it all, on't please you my honor.
You never desired her to pawn the things? - No.
GUILTY .
Transported for seven years .
Tried by the second Middlesex Jury before Mr. RECORDER.
Memorialised in the list and stone tablets @ First Fleet Memorial Wallabadah, NSW Australia. Pic Taken Jan 2021
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Isabella (Mason) Rowe, Convict "Lady Juliana" 1790's Timeline
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Maidstone, Kent, UK
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June 4, 1793
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New South Wales, Australia
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May 15, 1795
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November 1, 1799
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Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia
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June 15, 1847
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Kincumber, NSW, Australia
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