Mary Wade was a British teenager and convict who was transported to Australia when she was 13 years old.
11 Facts About Mary Wade
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Mary Wade was the youngest convict aboard Lady Juliana, part of the Second Fleet.
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Mary Wade was reported to an Officer of the Law by another child who later found the tippet in Mary Wade's room, whereupon she was arrested and placed in Bridewell Prison.
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Mary Wade spent 93 days in the Newgate Prison before being transported to Australia on the Lady Juliana, which was the first convict ship to carry only women and children.
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Mary Wade was granted land near the Tamar River in Launceston in 1825 and, presumably, never returned to the mainland.
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From 1809, Mary Wade lived with Jonathan Brooker near the Hawkesbury River.
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Mary Wade received her certificate of freedom on 1 September 1812.
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Mary Wade married Jonathan Brooker on 10 February 1817 at St Lukes, Liverpool, New South Wales, and her husband owned 30 acres in 1822, but a bushfire burned out the property in 1823.
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Mary Wade was buried in the graveyard of St Peter's Church, Campbelltown.
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Mary Wade died in Wollongong, New South Wales on 17 December 1859, at the age of 84.
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At the time of her death, Mary Wade had over 300 living descendants and is considered one of the founding mothers of the early European settlement of Australia.