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Compiled by Ellen (Ann) Spiro nee Riley. January 28, 2020. (Not a descendant of Mary Clayton).
It is likely that this Mary Clayton is the Mary Clayton who spent 3 years in Van Dieman’s Land by mistake.
Mary Clayton was a widow, with two sons William and James. Her husband James died in 1828. Mary was born a Brigg, Lincolnshire and Baptised there in 1800. Her parents were William and Agnes Burton. William was a witness at the wedding of Mary and James Clayton in March 1825 at Wrawby (2 miles from Brigg).
Mary’s connections were respectable and after she was sentenced to 7 years transportation, 38 people appealed for mercy on her behalf. One was David Holdsworth, a draper, her prosecutor.
Mary’s sentence was remitted to 3 years and she was to serve this time in the penitentiary.
Instead, Mary was loaded onto the Hindostan and she sailed on 9 May 1839 to Van Diemen’s Land. Lord Worsley contacted the Colonial Office requesting that Mary be provided with a free passage home at the end of her 3 years sentence. She was freed by servitude 9 March 1842 and returned home to the village of Wrawby and her mother Agnes. Mary was reunited with her son James who is seen on the 1841 census as living with grandmother Agnes, and her other daughter Jane Burton (A dressmaker) at Little Lane Wrawby. Unsure of where William is at this time. Agnes died in 1861.
Mary married John Fussey at Hull, Yorkshire in 1844. No issue from this marriage. John Fussey died in Brigg aged 82 and Mary Fussey died in the Brigg Workhouse in 1881.
This information came to me second-hand, via a local history group. The words Wrawby History Group, Keith Searson and Bill Painter, printed at bottom of the page. So, for clarification of the story, please contact the http://www.wrawby.org.uk/history/history_3.html
Submitted by Researcher (Ann Spiro) on 1 February 2020
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- The National Archives (TNA) : HO 11/12, p.31
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