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RASCAL RELATIVES cont..... |
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This page contains information on our Rascal Relatives.
I will start with our Convict Ancestors and branch out from there.
Information will be brief for space reasons, Email Me if you wish to know more or if you have any information to add.
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SARAH WOOLLEY
Great Grandmother of Mary and Sarah Frazer, the wives of Edward and John Onery. |
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Sarah was charged with stealing four and a half yards of printed cotton valued at 8 shillings from a City of London Linen Draper's shop King and Cottle, owned by Joseph King and Robert Cottle. They were tried by a Recorder and a Middlesex jury. She was convicted with Ann White and they were both sentenced to 7 years Transportation to Australia. On the 11th November, both women were sent from Newgate Prison for embarkation on the Neptune Transport. She left Portsmouth, England on the 19th January 1790 on board the "Neptune" of the second Fleet, they arrived in Sydney Cove on the 28th June 1790. The Master of the ship was Donald Trail, the Surgeon was Wm Gray. The ship left with 424 males and 78 females on board and arrived with 286 males and 67 females on board. |
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BORN
England Circa 1768-1773
TRIED
Old Bailey, London, England, October 28th, 1789
SENTENCED
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On Friday 9th October 1789, Sarah Woolley and Ann White were customers of the Draper's King and Cottle. They came into the shop fussing and quibbling over the price of a small piece of cotton, asking one other which pattern they liked. From past experience the shopkeepers were well prepared and had a password to use if they suspected shoplifting. The shopkeeper called out RF (the code word for suspected shoplifters) to his employer in the back room. Sarah had bought a piece of cotton for 2 shillings and 7 pence halfpenny. While she was receiving change from the 3 shillings tendered, the Draper suspected that Ann White, whom he referred to as "the short one" was hiding a length of material under her cloak. he inplicated Sarah Woolley "the tall one" fully in the crime by saying she had rolled up a remnant of cloth ready to be put under a cloak. The Draper said in court that he sold the cotton at cost 'in order to get rid of them; I did not like them". As they left he noticed White with her hand in her right pocket and a bulge under her clothing near the hip. He sent the assistant out after him and the bolt of cotton was found on the floor under White's petticoats, dirty from the mud on her shoes from the wet street outside.
The address of the Drapers was not mentioned in the report of the trial. Directories of the time show King and Cottle as drapers in Minories and Wapping, and with a warehouse in Milk Street, Cheapside. A shop assistant involved in the arrest said he had just returned from Cheapside. Cheapside was once the chief market in London. |
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The Information above comes from the following sources:
* The Women of the 1790 Neptune by Anne Needham
* The Second Fleet by Michael Flynn |
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