Mary Boulton (nee Tysall or Barlow) (1777 – 1836)

William Bolton was married first to Mary Tysol on 19 October 1795 at Birmingham, Warwickshire, and then to Mary Barlow on 16 August 1813. The only children I have found to William and Mary Bolton (nee Tysol) were Ann Tysol baptized 4 March 1807 and Eliza born 28 December 1812. Ellen was born on 28 June 1816 at Birmingham, Warwickshire, and her sister Sarah c1818 to William and Mary (nee Barlow).

The above information comes from Carol Herben’s book ‘From Burren Street to the Gallows’ and may well be true. There is a burial record for Mary Bolton in the Lancashire, England, Church of England Deaths and Burials, 1813-1986. This would have her dying shortly after the birth of Eliza.

Name:	Mary Bolton
Birth Year:	abt 1773
Death Age:	40
Burial Date:	15 Jan 1813
Burial Parish:	Blackburn, St Mary the Virgin, Lancashire, England
Spouse:	William Bolton
Register Type:	Parish Register
Reference Number:	PR 3073/1/81

There is then a marriage record in the Birmingham, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1937

Name:	Mary Barlow
Gender:	Female
Age:	40
Birth Date:	abt 1773
Banns Date:	15 Aug 1813
Banns Place:	Aston, St Peter and St Paul, Warwickshire, England
Parish as it Appears:	Aston, St Peter and St Paul
Spouse:	William Bollon (Name is hard to read could by Bolton)

1824 CALENDAR OF PRISONERS - WARWICKSHIRE

EXRACTS FROM THE TRIALS OF MARY BOULTON nee TYSALL (born abt 1777)

On the 15th April 1824 Mary BOULTON the wife of William BOULTON was charged with having on the 9th April 1824 feloniously received 3 pair of boots, 3 pair of shoes, 25 yards of binding, and other goods, the property of Thomas WYKES, she the said Mary BOULTON, at the time of so receiving the same goods& c. well knowing them to be stolen.

 

VERDICT:- Transported for 7 years

 

STATEMENTS FROM THE TRIAL OF MARY BOULTON

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Thomas WYKES of no.7 Snow hill, Birmingham, Shoemaker deposeth that on Wednesday night the 7th April instant his dwelling house in Snow Hill aforesaid was feloniously broken into and the following goods his property stolen there out -

namely 2 Watches with a chain and gold seal and key to one of the value together of £5 - Four handkerchiefs value 16s, Nine yards of cloth value 12s - 2 Baskets value 2s - Forty pair of boots value £19 - Thirty pair of shoes value £10.10s - Twenty yards of ribbon value 6s.8d - Thirty yards of shoe binding value 5s.

 

Sarah PENNY of Birmingham aforesaid, Widow - deposeth that she lives with her son-in-law the said Thomas WYKES. That his family consists of himself, his wife, 3 children, 2 lodgers and deposeth that she was the last person up in the house on Wednesday night the 7th of April instant, she went to bed about 12 O'clock that night and fastened the outer doors and windows of the said house just before she went to bed and left the same?

 

Gideon TAYLOR, of no.49 Moore Street, Birmingham, an Assistant with the Constables of Birmingham deposeth that on Friday morning the 9th April instant he had found in the house of Mary BOULTON (wife of William BOULTON whose husband was transported for life from Stafford about 3 years ago) in Russell Street in Birmingham - 3 pair of women’s boots, one pair of the boots was hanging up in a basket in the kitchen and one other pair were in a box in the garret.The last mentioned two pairs the prisoner Mary BOULTON said were hers, and that she had bought them some time ago - He then came down stairs into the kitchen and soon afterwards the prisoner Mary BOULTON went up into the garret of *************** her there and found the other pair of boots under the bed in the garret - that in this last pair of boots of shoes which the prisoner Mary BOULTON said were hers also, and she wished to put them on and *********** of a quantity of shoe binding which he found in the last ****** shoes - all these shoes and the binding which is about 5 yards he now produces.

 

George REDFERN of no.11 Moore Street, Birmingham, a Police Officer deposeth that he went with Gideon TAYLOR to the house of the Prisoner Mary BOULTON and found concealed behind a tub in her pantry, one pair of new shoes, and new boots in the kitchen, about 30 yards of shoe binding and about 20 yards of ribbon for the shoe ties which he now produces - that he found in the prisoner Mary BOULTON's kitchen, with her the prisoners Edward YOUNG and William BEABOTTOM, and in the garret they found the prisoner Harriett COPE who said she lived at William BOULTON's - The desponant says he was present at Stafford Assizes about 3 years ago when the husband of Mary BOULTON was tried and convicted of felony and sentenced to be transported for life.

 

Thomas WYKES further says that he was called up at about 6 O'clock in the morning of Thursday 8th April instant by John MORGAN a lodger in his house who was up first. And he discovered that the back door of his house had been broken by an Iron Crow which was found in his cellar and the goods above mentioned missing - and this ****** further that two pair of the boots now produced by Gideon TAYLOR he knows **** his property and *** to be part of the things stolen - He says he can positively speak of them by their general appearance because they stood in the shop window for many weeks, and he was in the habit of dusting them once or twice a week. And the other pair of boots produced and the shoe binding produced by TAYLOR and the pair of shoes and shoe binding and ribbon produced by REDFERN he ***** believes to be his property, and to be part of the things stolen, they are the things which he lost.

 

John MORGAN, a Shoemaker and servant of the said Thomas WYKES lodging in his house deposeth that he was the first person up in Mr WYKES house on Thursday morning the 8th April instant, he arose and came down stairs about 6 O'clock that morning and then found the back kitchen door open, and the pantry window out, and some *** **** and bottles lying on the ground, that he then went into the house and called up to his Master and Mistress - He says it was day light when he came down stairs.

Sworn at Birmingham aforesaid before

Thomas WYKES

The mark of Sarah PENNY x

G. TAYLOR

George REDFERN

John MORGAN

 

15th ____ of his Majestys Justice of the Peace for Warwickshire 15th April 1824

Theodore PRICE

 Mary Boulton (nee Tysall) - 1824 Calendar Of Prisoners (15TH APRIL 1824)

for 15th April 1824

Birmingham, Warwickshire, England

Trial, Conviction & Transportation of Mary Boulton (nee Tysall)

Mary arrived at Sydney Cove on January 23^rd 1825, aboard the transport ship “Grenada”, and after a period was assigned to Dr. Patrick Hill, Colony Surgeon, of Liverpool, who gave her a glowing report at the termination of her sentence. With her on the “Grenada” were her four daughters, Ann 19 years, Eliza 12, Helena (referred to also as Ellen, and later as Eleanor) 8, Sarah 6. Ellen and Sarah were put into the Female Orphanage School at Parramatta, and were finally given into the care of the two older sisters when Ann and Eliza married. Ellen was 10 years old when given into care of Ann and her husband, Edward Raper. Sarah was given into the care of Eliza and her husband, Francis O’Meara when she was 12 years old. The Families both lived in Sydney. Mary Bolton died in Sydney on October 5^th 1836, aged 67 years, described as a widow.