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Mary Bryant nee Broad This is the story of Mary Bryant, the convict woman with two babies who in 1791 helped steal a naval cutter in Sydney and sail it to Timor in an open boat voyage. This remarkable feat of endurance and navigational skill was just as prodigious as the widely acclaimed one of Captain Bligh after the mutiny of the Bounty , and in a seaman’s world she was as good as the best ...
Oct 28, 2017 · It was 1791, and Mary Bryant, who had arrived to the fledgling country Australia with the First Fleet on 10 May, 1788 on board the vessel, Charlotte, was almost ready to make her big escape.
Mar 10, 2023 · Among them was William Bryant, his wife Mary Bryant, his two children and seven other convicts. This motley group of prisoners pulled off one of the most incredible sea voyages on an open boat. William Bryant’s escape from Australia in 1791. Source: The World’s News 9 Sep 1931. William Bryant was among the first batch of prisoners to arrive ...
This true-life epic tells of an extraordinary young woman and her fight for the freedom and dignity of her family in the penal colony of Botany Bay, on the o...
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Mary Bryant. : Jonathan King. Simon & Schuster Australia, 2004 - Biography & Autobiography - 289 pages. For the crime of robbing a wealthy woman of a silk bonnet and a few guineas, an illiterate Cornish woman faces the hangman's noose. Her death sentence is commuted; instead she finds herself transported in chains on the First Fleet to Botany ...
Summary. Mary Bryant was a Cornish-born daughter of a fisherman who became involved in petty theft after moving to Plymouth. In 1787 she was convicted for stealing a silk bonnet, jewellery, and a few coins and sentenced to seven years transportation to Australia. In May 1787 she was sent as a prisoner with the First Fleet aboard the ship Charlotte.
May 23, 2015 · Mary (Broad) Bryant was one of the first young woman sent to Australia for her crimes. She became renowned for her dramatic escape from the colony. She was born in 1765 in Cornwall, England, to a fishing family also known for sheep stealing. Mary went to the town of Plymouth to look for work, got in with the wrong people, and began a career of ...
