365 A CONDITIONAL PARDON FOR MARY ANN BEDDOW December 1846 Van Diemen’s Land Conditional Pardon on vellum, signed by Charles LATROBE and with the seal of the Colony largely intact at left. Extremely rare. Beddow had been sentenced to seven years transportation at her trial at Glamorganshire, Cowbridge Quarter Sessions in April 1840. She arrived in September 1842, one of 204 female prisoners aboard "Royal Admiral". Of the 76,000 convicts transported to Van Diemen’s Land between 1803 and 1853, approximately 12,500 were females. $1,000–1,500 366 BROWNING, Colin Arrott, M.D. The Convict Ship, and England’s Exiles. In Two Parts. [London; Hamilton, Adams & Co., 1847] Second Edition. 414pp; re-bound preserving most of the original dark green cloth with gilt embossed ship to front; foxing throughout but mainly early and late. $300–500 ❖ 367 The short convict record of HANNAH O’MALEY: O’Maley was tried at the Central Criminal Court, found guilty of Larceny (receiving stolen goods) and sentenced to 7 years Transportation, arriving at Van Diemen’s Land in July 1847 along with 169 other female convicts aboard “Asia” . Married, but deserted by her husband, the notes include the remarkable information that 5 of her 7 children were on board the ship with her. The Surgeon’s Report consisted of one word: “Indifferent” . A year later she is recorded as being “absent without leave” and a sentence of 4 months hard labour was imposed. She served 4 sentences of hard labour at the Cascades Female Factory. In her sixties Hannah was admitted to the New Town Pauper Establishment; in 1883 she was released to the care of her daughter, dying the following year, in 1884, aged 72. $200–300 ❖ 362 363 364 365 55