QGR5/31

Minute book of the Visiting Justices [third volume] [see also QGR 4/1-360]. Mentions straw plaiting, female prisoners' diet, tobacco smoke from Debtor's Ward pervading the building, gas, new prisoners' diet. Frontispiece includes prison rules and list of Visiting Justices. Page 31 includes the following:

15 August 1833

From: 1833 To: 1833

George P Livius. The convict who stated her name to be Mary [Ann} Conrade [aka Courade, Conreve] now confesses that her real name is Macdonald and that she is the wife of James Macdonald who was tried as an accomplice with her at the March Assizes and sentenced to 7 years tranportation. She was confined on the 6th instant and her female child baptised on the 14th and the surgeon reports as recovered from her confinement.

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Livius, George P,
Cardale, George,
Warner,
Short,
Banfield, James,
Conreve, Mary Ann,
Courade, Mary Ann,
Conrade, Mary Ann,
Macdonald, Mary Ann,
MacDonald, James

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