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Mary Bryant (1765 – after 1794) was a Cornish convict sent to Australia. She became one of the first successful escapees from the fledgling Australian penal colony. Early life.
Mary Bryant (b.1765), convict, was baptized on 1 May 1765 at Fowey, Cornwall, England, the daughter of a mariner named Broad, whose family was 'eminent for sheep stealing'. On 20 May 1786 at the Exeter Assizes she, referred to as Mary Braund, was charged with assault and robbery, convicted and sentenced to death.
The Incredible Journey of Mary Bryant is a 2005 miniseries loosely based on the life of Mary Bryant, an English girl from Cornwall who in this telling was convicted of petty theft (though the historical Mary Bryant was transported for a violent robbery and assault), and who was transported to the Australian penal colony on the First Fleet with ...
Jul 7, 2016 · 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...
Bryant, Mary (1765–?) English highway robber and one of only a handful of convicts to escape from the notorious penal colony at Botany Bay. Name variations: Mary Bryant of Fowey; Mary Braund or Broad.
Oct 28, 2017 · Mary Bryant was the only female convict to escape Australia. A FEMALE prisoner who was starved of food made one of the most daring and tumultuous escapes in history. It all started here.
Mary (Garai) is convicted of theft in 1786 and becomes one of the first British convicts transported to Australia's Botany Bay colony. She marries fellow convict Will Bryant (O'Loughlin) but when the colony faces starvation, Mary wants to save her family by escaping and reaching safety in the Dutch colony of Timor.
