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Mary SPENCER/SPENCE
She
was tried at
Wigan, Lancashire
on
9 October 1786 for stealing clothing of unknown value.
She
was sentenced to transportation for
5 years
and left England on the
Prince of Wales
aged about 19 at that time (May 1787).
She had no occupation recorded.
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The 5 year term was a clerical error in Mary Spencer’s favour. It should have been 7 years. Gave birth to a child - a daughter (d 5 April 1788) - on 1 July 1787.Bore a son to James Squire on Norfolk Island in 1790 but she left the child behind when she returned to Sydney in 1792.
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