Ann Baldwin

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Ann Baldwin, one of 113 convicts transported on the ship 'Sydney Cove', January 1807.
Sentence details: Convicted at Middlesex Gaol Delivery for a term of 7 years.
Vessel: Sydney Cove.
Date of Departure: January 1807.
Place of Arrival: New South Wales.
ANN BALDWIN and MARY BALDWIN were indicted, the first for feloniously stealing, on the 8th of September, a shift, value 3 s. a petticoat, value 3 s. a habit-shirt, value 4 s. a pair of shoes, value 2 s. 6 d. two pair of stockings, value 3 s. a comb, value 3 s. a handkerchief, value 6 d. and a piece of cloth, value 1 s. the property of John Turner, and the latter for feloniously receiving the same, knowing them to be stolen.
ANN TURNER sworn. - Q. What day did the prisoner at the bar come to you? - A. On the 2d of September.
Q. Did you take her without a character? - A. I took her from her parents; she told me her master was dead; she came to me on the Monday morning and staid till the Sunday following; on Sunday morning I heard the child cry (she had the care of the child) about half after eight o'clock; I went up stairs; I then found she was gone; I missed a petticoat, a shift, a square piece of cotton, two pair of stockings, one pair silk, the other pair was cotton, and a pair of shoes; I had seen them the over-night at twelve oclock.
Q. Where had they been left? - A. Some of the things were on the line in the kitchen; the comb, which was set in silver was in the table-drawer; I had missed that a day or two before; the shoes were under the drawers. In consequence of information, I saw her on the Sunday following; I found her at her father's; I had a search-warrant and searched the house, and in the front two-pair of stairs room, where this girl lived, I found a bit of cotton; the petticoat had been cut up into an apron; and a pair of stockings, which I did not know I had lost, they were all mine. The constable found some duplicates there, one of them led to my pocket handkerchief.
GEORGE LEE sworn. - I am a pawnbroker; I live at the corner of Dean-street, Holborn: On the 10th of September, the prisoner Mary Baldwin (she is the youngest, and she is the sister of Ann Baldwin) pledged two pocket handkerchiefs.
Prosecutrix. I lost but one; this is mine.
Lee. On the 2d of October there was a frock and two habit-shirts pledged by Mary Baldwin.
Prosecutrix. Only one habit-shirt and apron is mine (Ann Baldwin was my servant), the apron is made out of my petticoat, I know it by the tuck that is in it now, the same tuck was in the petticoat, and by the stain of red wine in the front.
WILLIAM CHAPMAN sworn. - On the 2d of October I went with a search-warrant to the prisoners' mother's house; I found the duplicates which I produce, upon the mother.
Q. You should have indicted the mother, the child appears to be only an instrument in the hands of the mother - why did not you indict the mother? - A. The reason of the mother not being indicted was, she had got a dying infant in her lap; the mother has run away since.
Q. That is no reason you should indict the young girl as a receiver; she is only the instrument of the mother's receiving? - A. We could not tell whether she took the things home; I found a pair of stockings in the room where the bed was.
Prosecutrix. They are my stockings.
Ann Baldwin's defence. My mother asked me how I came by the things; I told her the lady gave them to me.
Ann Baldwin, GUILTY, aged 17,
Transported for seven years .
Mary Baldwin, NOT GUILTY.
First Middlesex Jury, before Lord Ellenborough.
ANN BALDWIN was again indicted for feloniously stealing, on the 23d of August, a pair of silk gloves, value 1 s. 6 d. a handkerchief, value 1 s. the property of Charles Walls.
No evidence being adduced against the prisoner on this indictment, she was from this charge.
ACQUITTED.
First Middlesex Jury, before Lord Ellenborough.

Ann married James Timmins on 6 Sep 1807 in Sydney, NSW Australia. (James Timmins was born in 1757 in Cavan, Ireland UK and died in 1837 in Windsor, NSW Australia.)