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convicted at the Old Bailey sessions 9th September 1789 and was in the 90 Middlesex goal delivery for stealing a basket of beans at Convent Gardens and transported to New South Wales, Australia onboard the “NEPTUNE” 1790 .

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John Randall and Mary Butler, were both convicts of the First Fleet, John Randall was of Negro descent, born New Haven, Connecticutt. USA, found his way to England??? he was transported to Australia for the crime of stealing a watch, eventually to earn his freedom. John Aiken Snr and John Randall settled in Pennant Hills. NSW. here they became known as "Men of Colour" not my term, this is how history records them, their descending families were well thought of in the community and much has been written of them, John Randall in particular.
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BUTLER, MARY ( 17??-1802)
Mary Butler and Mary Desmont were carrying a basket containing nine pecks of French beans in Covent Garden market at 3.30 am on 5 August 1789 when a suspicious marketer overhead them conversing in Irish. The man was familiar with the language and said they had not expected anyone to understand them. When he challenged them they ran off and were caught. The two woman said the stallholder to whom the beans belonged owed Desmont a grudge, and had been impudent to her, calling her an Irish bitch, at which she had slapped his face. The women said they were at labour, although neither was known at the market, according to the prosecutor. Both were sentenced to seven years transportation at the 9 September 1789 Old Bailey Sessions. Butler was held in Newgate Goal until 11 November when she was embarked on the Neptune transport. About six weeks after arriving in the colony Butler married the First Fleet convict John Randall on 5 September 1790. He was an African-American from New Haven, Connecticut who worked as a game hunter around Sydney. The couple baptized three children: Lydia (1791-1793), Mary (1793) and John (1797). Randall received a 60 acre land grant in the Northern Boundary district in 1792 which he sold for 40 Pounds in 1800 and joined the New South Wales Corps. His wife Mary was buried on 29 July 1802.
Source:

Michael Flynn,
The Second Fleet; Britain's Grim Convict Armada of 1790
ISBN 0 908120 83 4
Page 187.

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From Joe Twitchin

Francis Henry Finch born 1849 Ross St Parramatta and Mary Ann Finch born 1852 Ross St Parramatta were brother and sister and children of Francis Finch born Norwich Norfolk 1813 who was transported 1835 for stealing.
Francis 1813 had only just married (to Sarah Holmes) when he was convicted (He died 1863 at Fennel St Parramatta).
In respect to this he took a common law wife (Mary Clarke) about 1841 and she remained so until she died in 1912 at Kirby St Rydalmere with her son Francis born 1849.
Francis left everything to Mary Clarke in his will.He was a 'whitesmith' in Norwich and after his ticket of freedom he took up as a blacksmith at Collett Park Victoria & Kissing Point Roads, Parramatta East and apparently did reasonably well.
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http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?PHPSESSID=7e58a71euhsaeoipt6k 8o82134&topic=101744.0;prev_next=prev
Did she remarry or live in sin? « on: Friday 28 October 05 11:21 BST (UK) »

Sarah HOLMES married Francis FINCH at Norwich St Mary Coslany on 12 October 1833.
Husband Francis was convicted for stealing copper at Norwich Assizes in 1834 and subsequently got a passage to OZ.
He had a tattoo on his arm that read 'Sarah' and his first Ozzie child was named 'Sarah'.
In the 1851 Norwich census a Sarah FINCH 42 (head and married) was living at 'Mint Yard inside walls' .......... no husband shown but there was a lodger named William COOK 42 ......... (nudge nudge wink wink).
Did Sarah remarry eventually? or live in sin?.
I would appreciate if someone could look at the 1861 and any subsequent census for either or both William COOK and Sarah FINCH.
Francis got his 'ticket of leave' in 1842 and never married ..... but he did take a 'common law wife' and they lived happily in Parramatta NSW.
Francis was a successful blacksmith and well respected too.
He died after having several Ozzie children in 1863.
His common law wife died in 1912.
joboy

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UK - Warwickshire - Coventry - London Road Cemetery, Jordan Well

London Road Cemetery, Coventry - Square 138 Grave 143

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