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Note: n 19 January 1816 onboard the 'Mary Ann I'. She was found guilty of stealing a bonnet and a feather in the Old Bailey on 5 April 1815. WALLACE, Catherine; Trial Place: London; Trial Date: 5 April 1815; Departed: England. Taken from The Proceedings of the Old Bailey (www.oldbaileyonline.org): "Catherine WALLACE was indicted for feloniously stealing, on 3 March 1815, a bonnet, value 4s. and a feather, value 2s. the property of George FRANKS, privately in his shop. George LOCKEY: I am shopman to George FRANKS, he is a hatter, at the corner of Red Cross Street; on Friday, 3 March between five and six in the evening, the prisoner with another woman came into the shop, and asked to look at a drab hat, at about seven shillings, for a boy; I was then attending another woman in the shop, and a hat which I was going to try on a boy's head, when I turned round to put it on the boy's head, the two women went out of the shop, without saying anything; I immediately missed a beaver bonnet and feather from the window; I immediately went in pursuit of the women, and overtook them about half a dozen houses down the street, I caught hold of the prisoner by the shoulder, I informed her she must go back with me, she immediately dropped the bonnet and feather from under her clothes, where she had it concealed; I stooped and picked it up with my right hand from between her feet, as I held her with my left hand; I then took her back and gave her in charge of an officer; the other woman made off. Bartholomew WOOD: I produce the bonnet; I took charge of the prisoner and the bonnet; I have had the bonnet ever since. LOCKEY: The bonnet is my master's property, and the feather. I know the bonnet by the private mark. Prisoner's Defence: I was a little intoxicated, a woman asked me to go into the shop with her, she asked to buy a boy's hat. Guilty, aged 27, of stealing, to the value of 4s. 9d. only. Transported for seven years. London jury, before Mr. RECORDER." (Death) Taken from www.bdm.nsw.gov.au: Registration Number: V18521130 118; Year: 1852; Last Name: MCCABE; First Name: Catherine; Age: 64. Catherine's surname appears as DRISTELL on (daughter) Catherine MYCOCK'S (m.s. MCCABE) death certificate, 1893.
Note: Catherine WALLACE arrived as a convict in Port Jackson, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia o
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