 Abt 1758 - 1824 (~ 66 years)
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Mary Parker |
| Born |
Abt 1758 |
London, England  |
- Name: Mary Parker
[Anitra Gurnhill]
[User-submitted-comment]
Age: 27
Birth Year: Abt 1761
Birth Place: D1824
Arrival Year: 1788
Arrival State: New South Wales
Trial Place: Middlesex
Ship: Lady Penryn
Australia, Convict Index, 1788-1868
Name: Mary Parker
Vessel: Lady Penrhyn, Scarborough, Alexander
Fleet: First
Convicted Date: 26 Apr 1786
Voyage Date: Feb 1787
Colony: New South Wales
Place of Conviction: Middlesex, England
(Australian Convict Transportation Registers ? First Fleet, 1787-1788)
Name: Mary Small
Death Date: 4 Apr 1824
Death Place: Ryde, New South Wales, Australia
Cemetery: Field of Mars Cemetery
Burial or Cremation Place: East Ryde, Ryde City, New South Wales, Australia
(Find A Grave Memorial)
MARY PARKER, Theft > grand larceny, 14th September 1785.
858. MARY PARKER was indicted for feloniously stealing, on the 8th day of April last, two linen table cloths, value 5 s. the property of John Hickman .
GUILTY .
To be confined six months in the House of Correction .
Tried by the first Middlesex Jury before Mr. Baron HOTHAM .
(Old Bailey Online)
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Female |
| Trial |
26 Apr 1786 |
Old Bailey, London's Central Criminal Court |
MARY PARKER, Theft > burglary, 26th April 1786.
322. MARY PARKER was indicted for burglariously and feloniously breaking and entering the dwelling-house of John Hickman , about the hour of eleven in the night, on the 19th day of April last, and burglariously stealing therein, two muslin gowns and coats, value 40 s. a cotton gown, value 10 s. three cotton frocks, value 4 s. a callico bed-gown, value 2 s. four pair of cotton pockets, value 4 s. eleven shirts, value 3 l. one shift, value 2 s. and one diaper clout, value 6 d. his property .
MARY HICKMAN sworn.
I am wife of John Hickman , I live in Duke-street, Bloomsbury . I take in washing; I was washing on Wednesday last, till ten at night, I carried up the things and hung them on the line in the garret; I was not gone to bed, when the prisoner was taken, there was an alarm of thieves, I ran up in my hurry, and another witness who is here, and his lodger, he run up also; then when was going up two pair of stairs I met Mr. Headland and the prisoner on the stairs, I knew her again, she had no property about her, I went up stairs to see how my things were, all my shirts and frocks were laying about, and some in a heap in a corner, I came down again and I fetched a constable.
- HEADLAND sworn.
I lodge in his house, had been out, and this little boy had been in to my wife to light a candle, came in about half past ten, the little o run down to me, and said, there was somebody in the garret, I went up stairs, and I stood and called twice at the bottom of the garret stairs before I went up, there was no answer; I went up stairs, and saw the linen lay on the stairs, I went into the garret, and saw some things lay about the room, and some things in a heap at one corner, I turned about and saw the prisoner in the room, in one corner to the right hand, she did not lodge in the house; I knew her, she had lived with Mr. Hickman before, I asked her what she was at, and she gave me no answer; I said to her, Molly, what do you mean to come here to rob your mistress again, and I said, come, bundle out of the room; she set off to come out of the room, and she stooped to put her shoes on which were off, I stood by the door and caught hold of her gown tail, and she asked me in the passage to let her go out, I told her no.
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Court to Hickman. Had you hung up your things? - I hung up every one of them.
Where did you put the two muslin gowns, and the cotton gowns, and the three frocks, and the bed-gown, the three pair of cotton stockings, the shirts, the shift, and the clout? - They were all hanging on the lines in the same garret; they were the clothes of different people that I wash for.
PRISONER's DEFENCE.
I was not in the garret; I went to speak to the gentlewoman that lodged in the two pair of stairs, to ask a person to give me a character; she was not at home.
Court to Prosecutrix. Had you fastened your garret-door? - Yes; I had the key in my parlour.
What, did you lock the door? - Oh yes! I locked it myself, and hung the key in my parlour; when I came up, the door was standing wide open; it was wrenched open.
What marks were there upon the door of its having been wrenched open? - I do not know.
Perhaps it was slipped back, and an old lock? - No, no, no, no! I am too well used to it for that, it is not a bad lock.
There were no marks of violence on the door? - I cannot tell.
What does the bolt of the lock shut into? - Into a great iron staple.
In what condition was that staple? - It was in the same place.
How had the lock been got out of that staple? - By two great nails.
Jury. Have you the key of the lock with you? - No.
Court. Did you observe whether the bolt of the lock, when you came up stairs, was shut or pushed back? - It was pushed quite level to the door.
SAMUEL ABBOTT sworn.
The prosecutrix came and called me up to take charge of the prisoner; I went, and took her in custody; the prosecutrix took me up to the garret; when I came up the garret stairs, there lay some shirts and some linen, then she took me into the garret door; the prosecutrix gave me these two nails.
Prosecutrix. I saw the prisoner come down stairs with these nails in her hand, and when she put on her shoes, she dropped them beside her shoes in the passage.
Did you see her drop them? - No, I saw them in her hand.
Who saw her drop them? - My servant, her name is Nanny; she is not here.
Court. How do you know that she did this with these two nails? - She could not get it open with any thing else.
Yes she might, with a false key? - Oh, no, no.
Prisoner. I never saw the nails till they were fetched out of the parlour from Mr. Hickman to give to the constable.
Have you any friends or witnesses? - I have none in London.
GUILTY, Of stealing, but not of the burglary .
Tried by the first Middlesex Jury before Mr. Baron EYRE .
The Proceedings of the Old Bailey, 1674-1913
Old Bailey Proceedings punishment summary, 26th April 1786.
he Session being ended, the Court proceeded to pass Sentence as follows.
Received sentence of Death, 9, viz.
Hannah, alias Hanna Mullins , William Smith , alias Storer, Edward Griffiths , James May , George Woodward , Daniel Keith , Jonathan Harwood , William Watts , and Phebe Harris .
This last prisoner to be burnt.
To be transported to Africa for seven years, 3, viz.
Thomas Hobbs , Thomas Patrick , and William Brown .
To be transported to parts beyond the seas for fourteen years, 3, viz.
John Davis , David Davy , and Charles Fletcher .
To be transported to parts beyond the seas for seven years, 61, viz.
Henry Giles , Mary Parker , Peter Ogier , John Green, Joseph Halford , Mary Dykes . John Hunsley , William Bullock , John Frank , Simon Price , John Perry , James Watkins , Benjamin Godhard , James Thompson , John Smith , Elizabeth Cole , Mary Johnson , John Kirby , James Carr , Thomas Marshall , John Booty , Henry Gray , John Clemenson , John Kentish , James Godfrey , David Josiah Jones , David Jones , Thomas Trout , William Lions , John Eccles , Thomas Glover , George Embleton , Richard Eades , William Smith , John Spencer , Thomas Pearce , Elizabeth Lee , Ann Dutton , John Grubb , Margaret Bunn , James Field , William Valentine,-
The Proceedings of the Old Bailey, 1674-1913 |
| Died |
4 Apr 1824 |
Paramatta River, Kissing Point, Ryde, New South Wales, Australia |
| Drowning |
8 Apr 1824 |
The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertise |
Drowned, at Kissing Point, on the evening of Sunday last, Mrs. Mary Small. An Inquest sat on the body. Verdict-Drowned by Accident.
The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, Thursday, 8 April 1824 |
| Buried |
Field of Mars Cemetery, East Ryde, New South Wales, Australia |
| Person ID |
I14122 |
Hickey, List, Bundesen, Thomsen, Jensen, Jessen |
| Last Modified |
23 Aug 2016 |
| Family |
John Small, b. 1761, England , d. 1850, Ryde, New South Wales, Australia (Age 89 years) |
| Married |
1788/1789 |
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
- Name: John Small
Spouse Name: Mary Parker
Marriage Date: 1788
Marriage Place: New South Wales
Registration Place: Sydney, New South Wales
Registration Year: 1788
Volume Number: V
(New South Wales Marriage Index 1788-1985)
Name: John Small
Spouse Name: Mary Parker
Marriage Date: 1789
Marriage Place: New South Wales
Registration Place: Sydney, New South Wales
Registration Year: 1789
Volume Number: V A
(New South Wales Marriage Index 1788-1985)
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| Children |
| + | 1. Rebecca Small, b. 22 Sep 1789, Governor's House, Pitt Street, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia , d. 30 Jan 1883, Church Street, , Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia (Age 93 years) |
| | 2. Mary Small |
| | 3. John Small |
| | 4. William Small |
| | 5. Thomas Small |
| + | 6. Samuel Small, b. 31 Mar 1805, Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia , d. 18 Apr 1889, Field of Mars, Ryde, New South Wales, Australia (Age 84 years) |
| | 7. Sarah Small, b. 31 Mar 1805, Kissing Point, New South Wales, Parramatta |
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| Last Modified |
23 Aug 2016 |
| Family ID |
F5357 |
Group Sheet |
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 | Mary Parker Small
First Feeter |
 | John Small, Mary Small
Mary Parker Small
Birth: unknown
Death: Apr. 4, 1824
Ryde
New South Wales, Australia
Arrived in Australia on the First Fleet. Mary drowned at Kissing Point, NSW.
Inscription:
Headstone inscription:
In affectionate memory of Mary Small, nee Parker, 1st Fleeter, wife of John Small, drowned at Kissing Point, 4-4-1824.
Erected by descendants 1979.
Memorial plaque inscription:
Mary Small, nee Parker, arrived First Fleet, 26.1.1788, died 4.4.1824.
Fellowship of First Fleeters, 1992.
Note: Mary's actual grave may be near a shop close to Devlin Street in Ryde.
Burial:
Field of Mars Cemetery
East Ryde
Ryde City
New South Wales, Australia
Plot: Church of England area, Section O
Created by: Red
Record added: Feb 12, 2015
Find A Grave Memorial# 142538689
John Small
Birth: unknown
Death: Oct. 2, 1850
Burial:
Field of Mars Cemetery
East Ryde
Ryde City
New South Wales, Australia
Created by: Brett Miller
Record added: Oct 01, 2014
Find A Grave Memorial# 136654576
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