347 A PROSTITUTE & MURDERER TRANSPORTED FOR LIFE: The convict record of Eliza McILVEENE, who (apparently) arrived in Van Diemen’s Land aboard "Mexborough" in December 1841; transported for life, having had her death sentence for murdering a fellow prostitute, commuted. [NB: Her companion, Mary MOODY, also found guilty of murder and transported for life, is listed as being on the same voyage as Eliza, of whom there is no published record.] McILVEENE had murdered Catherine Kearns (or Cairns) while beating her with the leg of a stool while both of them were drunk. The document records her being sentenced to 6 days of Solitary Confinement for being drunk (October 1842) and being granted her ticket-of-leave in August 1847 . The granting of a ticket-of-leave only 6 years after her arrival suggests she must have settled down or had friends in high places! $500–750 ❖ 348 BROWNING, Colin Arrott, M.D. ENGLAND’s EXILES; or, a View of a System of Instruction and Discipline, as carried into effect during the voyage to the Penal Colonies of Australia [London; Darton and Clark, 1842] 1st ed. Small octavo, 238 pp., original printer’s green cloth, yellow endpapers, with early ownership inscription. Important book by Browning building on his experience as a Surgeon on board convict transports, most notably the Elphinstone which arrived in Hobart in 1836. He first visited Australia in the convict ship Surry (arrived Sydney, 1831) and later served in a similar capacity on the Arab (Hobart, 1834), Elphinstone (Hobart, 1836), Margaret (Sydney, 1840), Tortoise (Hobart, 1842), Earl Grey (Hobart, 1843), Mount Stewart Elphinstone (Hobart, 1845) and Hashemy (Sydney, 1849). $250–350 ❖ 349 MARY LEIGH or LEE or GANGELL or MURPHY - FREE SETTLER or CONVICT: 9 May 1842 mss transcript of evidence in the case of John Thornley, who has been charged with harbouring "Mary Leigh, an absconded offender." Leigh goes to great lengths, apparently successfully, to explain that Leigh is not really her name, even though she acknowledges that she has been known by that name. She claims it is her mother’s maiden name, that her real name is Mary Murphy, that she arrived in New South Wales a free settler, establishing herself at Pittwater in Van Diemen’s Land with her defacto husband, William Gangell. She further states that she has been in the Colony for nearly 26 years. Although the case against Thornley is dismissed, research indicates that Mary is a liar. Mary LEIGH, born in 1793, was one of 126 convicts transported on the "Maria" arriving in September 1818. She had been convicted of Larceny at Chester and sentenced to Transportation for Life. Her various aliases are recorded as Lee, Lea, Gangell and Gingell. Her father’s name was not Murphy, as she claimed, it was John Lea. She married William Gangell in January 1819 at Hobart Town and was granted her ticket-of-leave in March 1843. She lived in Lower Macquarie St, and was approved for a Conditional Pardon in October 1845 despite having spent several periods in the House of Correction (with hard labour) for having absconded from her husband and family. She died in 1870. $800–1,200 350 The Convict Record of JOHN TAYLOR, transported for 10 years for burglary: The official record providing the sorry tale and details of the years 1842 to 1863 during which period Taylor remained in the "system". Following his trial at York, where he was convicted, he was transported to Van Diemen’s Land aboard "Eden", arriving in July 1842 along with 280 other male convicts. The document records his many episodes or solitary confinement, hard labour, time spent in chains and in chain gangs as a result of his various infractions (destroying his bedding, stealing trousers from a fellow convict, having turnips in his possession, being absent without leave, insolence, etc.) culminating in a trial in the Hobart Town Supreme Court in December 1849 (for armed assault and robbery) resulting in his being further "transported for life and to be sent to NORFOLK ISLAND for 6 years....." $1,000–1,500 350 349 346 51