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• Auction House:
  Leski Auctions
• Sale Name:
  Australian & Colonial
• Sale Date:
  15 Jul 2018 ~ 12noon (AEST)
• Lot #:
  391
• Lot Description:
  WHO IS TO BLAME WHEN FEMALE CONVICTS ARE LED INTO TEMPTATION?
  1: 26 May 1856 confirmation of a Police Pass issued by R. Atkins, Keeper of the Female House of Correction, Hobart, discharging MARTHA BRAITHWAITE [transported for 7 years, arriving in April 1853] and permitting her to travel to her assigned employer, J.Corrigan at Jerusalem near Richmond. This document has been mailed to the Police Magistrate at Richmond. 2: 27 May 1856 five-page mss report written from Richmond Police to the Comptroller General explaining the circumstances in which Braithwate and another Probation Pass Holder, BRIDGET LYNCH, who had been travelling together, had failed to reach Jerusalem, having been "detained" at the Odd Fellows Hotel in Elizabeth Street, by the landlord, Mr Patrick Harvey, who appears to have put them to work on his own behalf for a few days. 3: The report to the Comptroller General makes mention of forged passes for the two women, created by Harvey in an attempt to justify their late arrival at Jerusalem. Those 2 passes are present in this remarkable group. As the ladies never made it to their assigned stations, as the magistrate at Richmond has already ordered Braithwaite out of his district and as Corrigan showed considerable neglect in not "taking the necessary steps for the safe conduct..." of the female servants, they were returned to Hobart Town to wait to be "assigned out to any one wanting [them] for I think it behoves all employers of female P.P. Holders to be peculiarly careful of the servants under them..." "These unfortunate women have temptations to do wrong without temptations being created for them."
• Notes:
  Martha Braithwaite, transported for 7 years, arrived via "Duchess of Braithwaite" in April 1853. Bridget Lynch, arrived via "Martin Luther" in June 1852. [This information may be incorrect; another convict of the same name is listed as having arrived via "Australasia" in 1849].
• Estimate:
  A$2,000 - 2,500
• Realised Price:
  *****
  

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• Category:
  Collectables

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