Mary Pike (1776 – 1832) was an Irish quaker heiress who was abducted by Sir Henry Browne Hayes.
Her father was in business with his older brother Ebenezer with a family bank in Cork city which was established in around 1770.
She moved out of the city to live with the family of Cooper Penrose, a brother of her aunt Anne, at Woodhill.
He was finally brought before the Cork spring assizes on 13 April 1801, prosecuted by John Philpot Curran, with Hayes being sentenced to transportation to Botany Bay.
[1][2][3][4] Pike was deeply affected by the abduction, appearing to have "developed a pathological fear of the male sex" and lived in a quaker retreat.