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following up from my last reply
This next bit is what I have found out about Margaret Wallace
Samuel Ferguson, Margaret Wallace  & Jane Wallace were tried for burglariously entering the dwelling of Robert Horner at Markethill on the night of 21st February, & stealing 29 yards of Orleans cloth, & a large quantity of calico & worsted. Margaret & Jane were also charged with receiving the goods, knowing them to have been stolen. Fergusen pleaded guilty. The case was clearly established against the prisoners, & the jury without much deliberation returned a verdict of guilty. Samuel & Margaret were sentenced to 10 years transportation, & Jane to 2 years imprisonment. (Weekly Vindicator, 16/3/1850)
The Grangegorman Prison register shows Margaret to have brown hair, fair complexion, 4ft9 inches, single, able to read, “p” religion, no trade, & aged 13. Her prison number was 2416, received there at 4pm 25/9/1850., after a trial at Co Armagh on 6/3/1850.She had no prior convictions. Margaret was transported on the Blackfriar, which sailed 9/1/1851.

Margaret Wallace arrived in Tasmania on 29/5/1851 on the convict ship the Blackfriar after departing from Kingston on 24/1/1851. She was only 15, so born around 1836, 4’10”, a single, Protestant, Nurse girl from County Armagh in Ireland. She was described as able to read & write, ruddy complexion, round head, round visage, low forehead, brown eyebrows, grey eyes, small nose, 2 small scars on the back of her left hand, & freckled. She was convicted for selling a stolen cashmere on 6/3/1850 & sentenced to transportation to Australia for 10 years. She was reported at the time as being very quiet & single.
The Blackfriar ship was built at Sunderland 1848. 621 tons. When Margaret was on board in 1851, there were 261 female prisoners, with 1 death. It is understood there were also 3 free female passengers amongst the 152 passengers.
On 16/2/1852, Margaret married Bryan Cassidy, a convict who had arrived on the Blenheim, from Dublin. He was a farm labourer who was convicted for stealing a donkey. His conduct & character were reported as good. 
She gave birth to a legitimate baby on 26/9/1853 at the Cascade facility, Jane. 
Bryan Cassidy’s last entry on his record sheet was on 29/3/1853, when it was reported that he was absent from musters. Perhaps parenthood didn’t agree with him?
The Cascades Female Factory was purpose-built in 1828 and operated as a convict facility until 1856. It was intended to remove women convicts from the negative influences and temptations of Hobart, and also to protect society from what was seen as their immorality and corrupting influence. The Factory was located, however, in an area of damp swamp land, and with overcrowding, poor sanitation and inadequate food and clothes, there was a high rate of disease and mortality among its inmates.
Margaret was also at Brickfields & Newtown Farm female factories.
Her locations & employment were as follows:
5/6/1851 BF
30/6/1851 New Town Road with Dr Huish
3/8/1851 NTF with Miss McCullagh
23/1/1852 NTRoad with Dr Huish
19/10/1852 HC (Hobart Cascades?
27/2/1854 HC
30/2/1854 Elizth St Mr Hyams

After a Marriage permission (needed for convicts) was approved, 21 year old (actually by calculation she was only 18, but possibly put her age up to be able to marry) Margaret married 38 year old John Gleves (Gleaves/Glevis), waterman, on 16/10/1854 in the Church of St Joseph, Hobart town. They were both listed as having been widowed.
Margaret’s Levels of freedom were as follows:
30/10/1854 Conditional Pardon,
31/10/1854 Ticket of Leave granted
19/3/1855 Conditional Pardon recommended
20/3/1855 Conditional Pardon recommended
21/2/1856 Conditional Pardon granted upon condition
26/2/1856 Conditional Pardon approved
6/3/1860 Free by Servitude
Margaret & John went on to have 5 children all registered in Spring Bay, Tasmania, namely: Mary Ann (24/1/1855), Elizabeth (17/2/1858), John (6/6/1860), James William (31/8/1862) & Phillip (30/11/1864).

cheers,
Cris