Mary Ann Draper

Newspaper : Leicestershire Mercury 22 July 1843 At Hertford, yesterday week, Mary Anne Draper aged 18, and rather a good looking young woman was charged with having feloniously administered to Mary Day, at the parish of Baldock, a certain poison called oxalic acid, or some other destructive thing, with intent wilfully, and of her malice aforethought, to poison and murder the prosecutrix who was prisoner's mistress, and had accused her of stealing a table cloth. She afterwards admitted the theft, but denied giving the poison. The jury, after a short deliberation returned a verdict, finding the prisoner guilty of administering the poison, but not with intent to murder. Mr. Baron Parke said that this was tantamount to a verdict of Not Guilty. Prisoner was then arraigned upon another indictment for stealing the table cloth. - The jury found her Guilty. Baron Parke sentenced her to seven years' transportation.

Married convict John Watkins (alias William Watkins)

RECORD OF MARRIAGE: Name: Watkins, John Record Type: Marriages Gender: Male Age: Adult, bachelor Trade: Milkman Spouse: Draper, Mary Ann Gender: Female Age: Adult, spinster Date of marriage: 07 August, 1848 Registered: Hobart Registration year: 1848 Location: Church of the Holy Trinity (Church of England), District of Buckingham [Hobart] Record ID: NAME_INDEXES:836341 Resource: RGD37/1/7 no 1568 (online at https://stors.tas.gov.au/RGD37-1-7p71j2k). Note: Holy Trinity Church is a former Anglican, and now Greek Orthodox, church in North Hobart, Tasmania. The church was designed in the Gothic Revival style by James Blackburn and consecrated in 1849. Rev. Philip Palmer was its first rector (Wikipedia). Rev. Philip Palmer was the officiating minister for Mary Ann Draper's marriage to John Watkins (https://stors.tas.gov.au/RGD37-1-7p71j2k). --0--