#OnThisDay 31 January 1814 Margaret Catchpole was granted a free pardon. Catchpole was twice sentenced to death in the Suffolk Assizes with that sentence being twice commuted to transportation for seven years. She was one of a few convicts who left a written record of her time in the Colony, including an eye witness account of the Hawkesbury River floods in 1806 and 1809. Catchpole is also well remembered as a midwife and nurse.
Related
- Convict resources
- See the entry in the Australian Dictionary of Biography for Margaret Catchpole
