Hi Karen One could ask by Catherine Finn, who arrived by the Lady Rowena, was transported. She was 80 years of age and sentenced to 7 years transportation. There were plenty of older women transported who received sentences from 7 years to life. Regards Lesley Uebel http://www.claimaconvict.net/index.html CLAIM A CONVICT email: [email protected] On 30/05/2011 9:27 AM, Karen Hodges wrote: > I know that young convict men who were sentenced to death often had > this punished reduced to transportation as it suited the Government to > send them out to Australia to help the labourer force. > > Has anyone come across any information as to whether punish of > transportation was effected by the age of a women? For example could a > woman awaiting trial consider it advantageous to lie about her age and > make herself older [beyond child bearing age] in hopes that she would > be consider not worth the cost of transporting to Australia? > > Karen

Hi Lesley I know age didn't stop older women being transported. I am trying to find a reason for a convict being recorded as being older. 1814 age of 52 is clearly written, her birthday was later in the year equalling 1761, this year is recorded on her Certificate of Freedom in 1828. Her age in the 1828 census is 56 matches her birth/christening year 1772. Do you know please if the year of birth was taken from previous records for the Certificate of Freedom or supplied by the convict ? In the 1828 census were the details provided by the person[FS] to the collector? Karen could a woman awaiting trial consider it advantageous to lie about her age and make herself older in hopes that she would be consider not worth the cost of transporting to Australia?