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available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Mary Bryant (born
1765, date of death unknown) was a Cornish convict sent to Australia.
She became one of the first successful escapees from the fledgling
Australian penal colony.Born Mary Broad (referred to as Mary Braund at
the Exeter Assizes) in Fowey, Cornwall, United Kingdom, to William Broad
and Grace Symons Broad, a fishing family. She left home to seek work in
Plymouth, England, where she became involved in petty thievery. After
being arrested and committed by J Nicholls, Mayor of Plymouth, to Gaol
(prison) with two accomplices, Cathrine Fryer and Mary Haysoning, for
highway robbery of a silk bonnet, jewellery, and a few coins, she was
sentenced to seven years transportation to Australia. In May 1787 she
was sent as a prisoner with the First Fleet aboard the ship Charlotte.
