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Mary Bryant (c. 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 ...
Mary Bryant: With Romola Garai, Jack Davenport, Alex O'Loughlin, Sam Neill. A young woman is transported to the New South Wales penal colony in 1788.
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.
true story of a woman who escaped from a penal colony in 1788 tv mini-series.
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.
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.
Jun 23, 2015 · 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.
In 1791, after being transported to Australia in the first shipment of convicts, Mary Bryant, her husband, two children, and seven other convicts, unable to endure the terrible conditions of the penal colony, organize a daring escape in an open boat.
