Mary Wade

[4] Evidence for her revised date of birth and parents includes: - Her mother stated during the trial that her daughter was born in December.

[10] On 11 March 1789, King George III was proclaimed cured of an unnamed madness; it is assumed that he suffered from porphyria, a degenerative mental disease.

A month later, in the spirit of celebration, all the women on death row, including Mary Wade, had their sentences commuted to penal transportation to Australia.

Wade spent 93 days in the Newgate Prison before being transported to Australia on the Lady Juliana, which was the first convict ship to carry only women and children.

Brooker was given a certificate of freedom in February 1811 and was granted 60 acres (24 ha) of land by Governor Lachlan Macquarie, at Tarrawanna, New South Wales.

Wade married Jonathan Brooker on 10 February 1817 at St Lukes, Liverpool, New South Wales, and her husband owned 30 acres in 1822, but a bushfire burned out the property in 1823.

[13] At the time of her death, Wade had over 300 living descendants and is considered one of the founding mothers of the early European settlement of Australia.

That, and the stories of Rudd's other convict ancestors, has been collated into two leather-bound volumes by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and is kept in the National Library of Australia in Canberra.