Date of Conviction: 04/08/1817

Age at Conviction: 29

Crime Convicted of: Theft

Court Convicted at: Lancaster Quarter Sessions (held at the Old Town Hall, Ormskirk)

Sentence Length: 7 years

Ship Transported on: Maria

Where Arrived: Port Jackson, New South Wales

Departure Date: 15/05/1818

Arrival Date: 17/09/1818

Biography: Ann was a single woman of Wigan, she had had an acquittal and another imprisonment within the last 12 months. Whilst awaiting transportation in Lancaster Castle wrote (or had an emanuensis write) an unsuccessful letter of petition* (see below). She was put on board ship on the 20th March 1818. Almost immediately upon arrival in Australia, she was transferred to the Elizabeth Henrietta and sent on to Van Diemens Land.

*Ann Agnew, Lancaster castle, 25 November 1817, writes further letter [see 692], fearful that, as she has given evidence in Bank cases, she will be subject to revenge attacks in NSW when she is transported [seven yrs for another offence]; she asks Bank solicitors to get her to this nue pleas in London, [Millbank jail?]. Bank of England letters.

The year after arrival in Van Diemen’s Land, Ann married Charles Brown at St John’s C of E, Launceston.

Ann received her certificate of freedom in September 1824. Ann’s post transportation record is very quiet her only further indiscretion was in January 1830, receiving a fine for being drunk.