Is there a Pratley, and a Florence Lindsay nee Hartnett aka Turner there?
Have a mate who had a Lewington “lady” I think it was a with a horrendous drink
conviction record.
Mal Sears
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Sent: Thursday, 30 March 2017 6:38 PM
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Subject: [dps-chat] Re: Fremantle Prison records
Hi Beverley
May Ahern also features in Leigh Straws book, “Drunks, Pests and
Harlots”, an interesting read and one of my current favourite history books.
She definitely has a page (or more) in the Fremantle Prison register. I can’t
remember for certain whether she has a mug shot but I think she might.
To view this you will need to go to the State Records Office in town. The
staff will issue you with a readers ticket if you don’t already have one, then
you can request the record you would like to look at. The office is open 10am
to 4.30pm Tuesday to Friday.
Records are delivered to the Office twice a day at 10am and 1pm. If you order
in the before midday, you can look at it in the afternoon. The Female prison
Registers are S678 items 1-4.
https://archive.sro.wa.gov.au/index.php/registers-local-prisoners-female-s678
You can look up May’s name in the microfilm first to see which register and
what page she appears on. She is definitely there, I’ve seen the entry. The
staff at the Records Office are very helpful and will show you what to do. Once
you have a reader’s ticket, you can request records to be available for you at
the Records Office over the internet.
Hope this helps.
Best wishes
Caroline
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Sent: Thursday, 30 March 2017 2:26 PM
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Subject: [dps-chat] Fremantle Prison records
Actually, it is not the published books I am so much interested in, as the
reference Caroline made to ‘Fremantle Prison Females Prisoners’ Registers kept
in the State Record Office.’
G.Aunt May Ahern featured in lurid reports about local lassies mixing with ‘men
of colour’, i.e. Afghans and Chinese and became notorious over a number of
years for that and various other associated misdemeanours. Her family cut her
off to the extent I only became aware of her existence when I found her birth
recorded on a book owned by my grandmother. When I questioned my mother and
aunts, they all looked very self-conscious and gradually opened up a little
about ‘Aunty May’.
She was invariably described in the newspapers as being very handsome and
well-dressed (which my mother confirmed, having met her once as a young child)
and I would love to see a mug shot , if one exists. May lived outside social
norms all her days, marrying at one time, constantly in and out of jail and
ultimately dying as a vagrant in a public park at a relatively young age.
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