Date of Conviction: 22/01/1817

Age at Conviction: 30

Crime Convicted of: Theft

Court Convicted at: Lancaster Quarter Sessions (held at the New Bailey, Salford)

Sentence Length: 7 Years

Ship Transported on: Friendship (2)

Where Arrived: Port Jackson, New South Wales

Departure Date: 03/07/1817

Arrival Date: 14/01/1818

Biography: After arrival, Ann was sent to Hobart, Van Diemen’s Land on the Wellington. The ship’s surgeon had described her as “a prostitute, mutinous and extremely insolent”.

In Tasmania, Ann was sent to the county jail with hard labour for a week for sneaking out from her lodgings in Feb 1818 and the same but for two weeks for being drunk and disorderly in May that year. She was fined for being drunk and disorderly again in June 1820. Ann married convict blacksmith William Cotton (ship- Guilford) at Hobart in August 1820.

Ann passed away from old age related illness at Hobart in September 1855 aged 69. The papers record her as the ‘beloved wife of William Cotton and an old resident of the city’ and passing after a short but painful illness. Ann was buried just over a week later at St David’s Anglican Cemetery (now St David’s Park).