Although the story of convict Jane GOULD (or GOLD) is a cheerless and depressing one, it is difficult not to feel some sympathy for the woman herself. Found guilty, she was sentenced to transportation for fifteen years. Elizabeth Attwood was born at Pinfold St, Birmingham on 27 December 1813 to parents Thomas and Hannah Attwood. Others saw their transportation as an opportunity to escape from the circumstances which had led them to their crimes. However, family sources have always believed that she and other members of her Catholic family had become involved in some way in the political troubles in Ireland at that time. I was born in Galway, Ireland on 1 August 1811, and was a nursemaid/needlewoman. Her second husband was Thomas Wildgust, also a former convict, a young labourer on a neighbouring property. The Founders and Survivors project newsletters also contain interesting stories on convicts. Opened in 1819, around 30 years after the arrival of the colony’s first convicts, it served as a principal depot for male convicts in NSW until 1848. Although troublesome at times in VDL, she did nothing that was particularly unusual or bad. Convict ships generally engaged in carrying convicts from Great Britain to the Australian Colonies.The First Fleet saw the first convict ships arrive in Australia in January 1788, and the last convict ship, Hougoumont, arrived in Western Australia in 1868. The Governor hav a good maney Cowes and a notheh gentleman hear is a good maney horses and verry smart wiskes and Leetell shay cartes and passeg Bootes. It is frustrating to find that – as with many females sent to VDL as convicts between 1812 and 1853 - she simply vanished from the pages of history soon after serving her time. The surgeon's report on her conduct during the voyage was 'Bad'. CAVANAGH, Rosannah per Abercrombie 1841. It took some years before she found herself in Australia. Over the 80 years of transportation, between 1788 and 1868, 608 convict ships transported more than 162,000 convicts to Australia. By Rhonda Arthur (4/12/2019). By Margaret Walsh (16/10/2017). She was kept there for three and a half years before being put aboard Duke of Cornwall which sailed on 8 July 1850 and reached Hobart in late October that year. Neither vial had been labelled. By Ian Billing, DAWSON, Ann per William Bryan 1833. Convict ship ready to sail from England to Australia, parts of which Britain used as a penal colony. Ann Fitzpatrick’s story is of a life of courage and resilience. [1] Although there is some doubt about her exact age at that time, she is thought to have been in her early twenties. In court she stated: that she only remained in Glasgow for about a week, and left it upon Friday last the eighth ... without being able to find out her uncle and aunt, that having happened to go into the house of Michael McMillan spirit dealer in Glasgow, she there met with two women whom she had never seen before, and who had a little child in their arms, and which they gave to the charge of the declarent, along with six pence to purchase bread for it, and after purchasing two pence worth of bread, she set off to Ayr with the child in company with the said two women but who left her on this side of one of the bridges of Glasgow that after getting out of Glasgow a little space she went into a field of cut hay and wrapping herself and the child into a cloak, slept there among the hay till after sunrise next morning. For her participation in that crime, she was sentenced to transportation for seven years. When the child died suddenly eleven months later, suspicion fell upon the parents. In the intervening years, she gave birth to at least seven children - two of whom died in shockingly tragic circumstances in childhood - and outlived two husbands. Charlotte Harris was convicted of murdering her husband at a time when there was a groundswell of people calling for the abolition of capital punishment as being cruel and immoral. Skip to main content . CHADWICK, Elizabeth per Sea Queen 1846. Mary’s mother, Elizabeth (or Betty), and sister, Margaret (or Peggy), became victims of the notorious Edinburgh murderers (also known as West Port murderers), Burke and Hare. Torn from her loved ones for a crime of which she may not have been guilty, she had been exiled in VDL, without hope of a pardon, for twenty years. In May 1808 she sailed to Scotland and travelled to Glasgow in search of an uncle and aunt who were living there. Seemingly, their convict pasts had been quite forgotten. By Don Bradmore, MOORHEAD, Jane per Blackfriar 1851. Although sentenced to ‘fifteen years transportation’ for that crime, she spent two only years in a Hobart gaol before being released as a prisoner ‘on probation’. “Aboard ship the women could make a quilt which could later be sold in Australia for a few coins each.” Only one convict-made quilt has survived the test of time. For the next thirty years, she lived quietly at New Town, Hobart, where she passed away in September 1907. Thomas and Hannah were married circa 1808 and had three other children – John died as an infant, Thomas Jnr born in 1815 and Maria. By T C Creaney 2015, HUNT, Mary per Emma Eugenia 1851. Mary Ann Attwood had been eighteen when she arrived in NSW (as Mary Ann PRENDERGAST) aboard Experiment II to serve a seven year sentence in 1809. I read that it was a British Army barracks. While researching her history, it became increasingly obvious that given her family, time and circumstances, it was almost inevitable that in 1851 she would be on a convict ship bound for Van Dieman’s Land (VDL) with her infant son, never to see her homeland or her three older children again. Coming from a large farming family, and having pleaded guilty, her family must have been devastated, but could do nothing to help her. Convict Susan CORFIELD had been in Van Diemens Land (VDL) for only a little over seven years when she was brutally murdered at Hobart by a jealous lover. Her trial documents best describe how her journey would eventually lead to Van Diemen's Land. The death certificate shows the cause as ‘senile decay’. The "Convict Indents (Ship and Arrival Registers) 1788-1868" records included on this site is an (incomplete) listing of individual-level information taken from the shipping lists regarding convicts transported to the Australian colonies of New South Wales, Van Diemen’s Land (now Tasmania) and Swan River (now Western Australia). By Don Bradmore (13/12/2020), CHAMBERLAIN, Rachel per Mary Ann 1822. WOODS, Jane per Duke of Cornwall, 1850. Elizabeth’s early years in both England and Hobart were indeed turbulent. There are no further sightings of her in VDL. ), Recently Viewed (1967). Although little is known about her life, either before her conviction and transportation or afterwards, one thing is very obvious: she was a strong-willed woman who seemed to know what she wanted in life and might have achieved it eventually. By Geoffrey Court, NOTTINGHAM, Jane per Duchess of Northumberland 1853. Ann became embroiled in a Beverley body-snatching gang (she was considered by some to be the leader of this gang). Not many convicts appeared before a Royal Commission, not many were sketched as often as Catherine, and few had photographs taken due to giving evidence. Did you have any idea that one small action would have changed the course of your life forever? Of particular relevance to her story is the fact that her native place was never recorded and the lack of this piece of information makes researching her life difficult. She was sentenced to transportation for seven years. [1] Conduct record: CON40-1-10, image 127; description list: CON19-1-3, image 82; police no: 184; FCRC ID: 9249. The weat harvest was all most over just as i Landded.
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