Mary A Hancox

   Other names for Mary were Mary A Cox and Mary Hancocks.

  General Notes:

Mary was a convict, convicted at Worcester Assizes for a term of 7 years on 11 July 1807.

From the Oxford Journal Sat 18 Jul 1807 p. 3

At Worcester Assizes, Mary Hancox, Lydia Martin, Mary Pearsall, Maria Hopkins, and Sarah Hopkins, for feloniously stealing various pieces of printed cotton, &c. from different shops in Bromsgrove, were severally sentenced to seven years transportation...
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She left England on board the Eolus in July 1808, arriving in Sydney on 26 January 1809.

Mary married James Eldridge, son of James Eldridge and Unknown, in 1817 in St Lukes C Of E, Liverpool, New South Wales, Australia. (James Eldridge was born in 1772 in Battle, , Sussex, England, christened on 19 Mar 1772 in Battle, , Sussex, England and died on 22 Jul 1860 in Goulburn, New South Wales, Australia.)