Lydia Farrell - Higgins, Convict "Pitt" 1792

Sentenced to death for stealing 7 yards of Muslin (Shawl)-commuted to life in N.S.W. Arrived in N.S.W. aboard "Pitt" on 14 February 1792 (3rd Fleet). Previously married with a baby which died on board boat coming to N.S.W. She was "assigned" to Robert Higgins in 1792. He was a Sgt and transferred to Norfolk Island on 25 January 1793 until 16 November 1794. They married on 9 July 1810 at St. Phillips Church, Sydney and lived on Corner of Bridge and George Streets, Sydney. August 1812 Robert Higgins was granted 50 acres on Eastern bank of Nepean River and assigned Thomas Seymour (convict) to work for Robert Higgins. Seymour eventually married Mary Higgins (daughter) but she eventually left Seymour for William Ryan (former convict).

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Lydia Farrell was tried and convicted at Stafford Assizes to seven years of transportation for the theft of some shawls from a shop in Wolverhampton. She sailed aboard the Pitt from England in June 1791 and arrived at Port Jackson on the fourteenth of February, 1792 with the Third Fleet. She bore with Sergeant Robert Higgins seven children and were married on the ninth of July, 1810 in Saint Phillip's Church of England in Sydney. Lydia died in 1823 and is buried at Liverpool.