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Folios 1-5: Sick list of the Nautilus female convict ship, from Woolwich to Van Diemen's...

Catalogue reference: ADM 101/56/1A/2

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1838

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Folios 1-5: Sick list of the Nautilus female convict ship, from Woolwich to Van Diemen's Land, April to September 1838. J D Stewart Surgeon Superintendent. [The list makes reference how long the convicts spent in prison] - continued:

Folio 3: Ann [Dunstacy?], aged 22, prostitute, received from York; disease or hurt, diarrhoea. Put on sick list, 24 April 1838. Discharged, 15 June 1838. Folio 3: Elizabeth McInnes, aged 18 prostitute, received from Glasgow; disease or hurt, diarrhoea. Put on sick list, 24 April 1838. Discharged, 26 April 1838. Folio 3: Mary Ann Smith, aged 18, prostitute, received from Nottingham; disease or hurt, itch. Put on sick list, 25 April 1838. Discharged, 28 April 1838. Folio 3: Emma Williams, aged 26, tramper, received from Hanford; disease or hurt, diarrhoea. Put on sick list, 26 April 1838. Discharged, 29 April 1838. Folio 3: Mary Ann Peterson, aged 38, staymaker, received from Penitentiary; disease or hurt, diarrhoea. Put on sick list, 26 April 1838. Discharged, 28 April 1838. Folio 3: Margaret Pine, aged 17, prostitute, received from Ayr; disease or hurt, diarrhoea. Put on sick list, 27 April 1838. Discharged, 28 April 1838. Folio 3: Mary McNeil, aged 21, prostitute, received from Perth; disease or hurt, ulcus of leg. Put on sick list, 27 April 1838. Discharged, 2 May 1838. Folio 3: Elizabeth Cook, aged 19, prostitute, received from Edinburgh; disease or hurt, dysentery. Put on sick list, 1 May 1838. Discharged, 10 May 1838. Folio 3: Nelly Ross, aged 40, servant, received from Inverness; disease or hurt, ephemera. Put on sick list, 1 May 1838. Discharged, 4 May 1838. Folio 3: Sarah Douglas, aged 25, prostitute, received from York; disease or hurt, dysentery. Put on sick list, 3 May 1838. Discharged, 8 May 1838. Folio 3: Dorothy Barns, aged 22, prostitute, received from Edinburgh; disease or hurt, diarrhoea. Put on sick list, 3 May 1838. Discharged, 9 May 1838. Folio 3: Agnes Rutherford, aged 24, servant, received from Edinburgh; disease or hurt, dysentery. Put on sick list, 4 May 1838. Discharged, 8 May 1838. Folio 3: Janet Thompson, aged 23, farm servant, received from Edinburgh; disease or hurt, dysentery. Put on sick list, 4 May 1838. Discharged, 10 May 1838. Folio 3: Mary Haywood, aged 22, servant, received from Leicester; disease or hurt, diarrhoea. Put on sick list, 4 May 1838. Discharged, 8 May 1838. Folio 3: Margaret Hodson, aged 35, tamper, received from Penitentiary; disease or hurt, dothenteritis. Put on sick list, 5 May 1838. Discharged, 10 May 1838. Folio 3: Eliza Clark, aged 19, prostitute, received from Nottingham; disease or hurt, diarrhoea. Put on sick list, 6 May 1838. Discharged, 8 May 1838. Folio 3: Margaret Reid, aged 21, prostitute, received from Perth; disease or hurt, obstipatio. Put on sick list, 6 May 1838. Discharged, 7 May 1838. Folio 3: Richard Vizard, aged 8, prisoner’s child, received from Penitentiary; disease or hurt, ophthalmia. Put on sick list, 7 May 1838. Discharged, 14 May 1838. Folio 3: Mary Wood, aged 40, inn keeper, received from Edinburgh; disease or hurt, ephemera. Put on sick list, 9 May 1838. Discharged, 15 May 1838. Folio 3: Jane Alexander, aged 13, received from Glasgow; disease or hurt, gastrodynia. Put on sick list, 9 May 1838. Discharged, 15 May 1838. Folio 3: Mary Vizard, aged 42, [chairwoman?], received from Penitentiary; disease or hurt, diarrhoea. Put on sick list, 9 May 1838. Discharged, 18 May 1838. Folio 3: Jane Brown, aged 28, prostitute, received from Penitentiary; disease or hurt, diarrhoea. Put on sick list, 9 May 1838. Died, 13 June 1838. Folio 3: Catherine Picton, aged 32, prostitute, received from Penitentiary; disease or hurt, intermittent fever. Put on sick list, 9 May 1838. Discharged, 21 May 1838. Folio 3: Sarah Hampton, aged 26, servant, received from Worcester; disease or hurt, diarrhoea. Put on sick list, 10 May 1838. Discharged, 14 May 1838. Folio 3: Catherine Burns, aged 19, prostitute, received from Edinburgh; disease or hurt, ephemera. Put on sick list, 10 May 1838. Discharged, 13 May 1838. Folio 3: Ann Turton, aged 26, prostitute, received from York; disease or hurt, diarrhoea. Put on sick list, 12 May 1838. Discharged, 13 May 1838. Folio 3: Martha Dodds, aged 23, servant, received from Penitentiary; disease or hurt, diarrhoea. Put on sick list, 14 May 1838. Discharged, 15 May 1838. Folio 3: Mary Murdoch, aged 18, factory, received from Glasgow; disease or hurt, diarrhoea. Put on sick list, 15 May 1838. Discharged, 17 May 1838. Folio 3: Sarah Douglas, aged 25, prostitute, received from York; disease or hurt, dysentery. Put on sick list, 16 May 1838. Discharged, 3 June 1838. Folio 3: Elizabeth McInnes, aged 18, prostitute, received from Glasgow; disease or hurt, febricula. Put on sick list, 17 May 1838. Discharged, 21 May 1838. Folio 3: Mary Ann Clark, aged 23, servant, received from Edinburgh; disease or hurt, intermittent fever. Put on sick list, 18 May 1838. Discharged, 22 May 1838. Folio 3: Mary Connoway, aged 20, weaver, received from Glasgow; disease or hurt, hepatic congestion. Put on sick list, 21 May 1838. Discharged, 23 May 1838. Folio 3: Elizabeth Kupax, aged 28, prostitute, received from Worcester; disease or hurt, hepatic congestion. Put on sick list, 21 May 1838. Discharged, 23 May 1838. Folio 3: Ann Turton, aged 26, button maker, received from York; disease or hurt, diarrhoea. Put on sick list, 22 May 1838. Discharged, 4 June 1838. Folio 3: Janet Fulton, aged 17, factory, received from Glasgow; disease or hurt, diarrhoea. Put on sick list, 22 May 1838. Discharged, 26 May 1838. Folio 3: Martha Dodds, aged 23, servant, received from Penitentiary; disease or hurt, diarrhoea. Put on sick list, 23 May 1838. Discharged, 26 May 1838. Folio 3: Julia Newman, aged 20, received from Penitentiary; disease or hurt, subluxation. Put on sick list, 24 May 1838. Discharged, 28 May 1838 convalescent. Folio 3: Maria Smith, aged 22, widow, received from Penitentiary; disease or hurt, caries. Put on sick list, 24 May 1838. Discharged, 31 May 1838. Folio 3: Margaret [Piris?], aged 18, prostitute, received from Ayr; disease or hurt, amenorrhoea. Put on sick list, 25 May 1838. Discharged, 8 June 1838. Folio 3: Sarah Sharp, aged 19, servant, received from York; disease or hurt, gastrodynia. Put on sick list, 27 May 1838. Discharged, 24 June 1838. Folio 3: Elizabeth Reid, aged 28, servant, received from Penitentiary; disease or hurt, febris. Put on sick list, 28 May 1838. Discharged, 5 June 1838. Folio 3: Margaret Murray, aged 48, widow, received from York; disease or hurt, cholera. Put on sick list, 28 May 1838. Discharged, 30 May 1838. Folio 3: Janet [McLean?], aged 23, prostitute, received from Edinburgh; disease or hurt, diarrhoea. Put on sick list, 28 May 1838. Discharged, 31 May 1838.

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