Date of Conviction: 24/03/1821

Age at Conviction: 21

Crime Convicted of: Possession of Forged Notes

Court Convicted at: Lancaster Assizes (held at Lancaster Castle)

Sentence Length: 14 Years

Ship Transported on: Mary Anne (3)

Where Arrived: Port Jackson, New South Wales

Departure Date: 25/12/1821

Arrival Date: 20/05/1822

Biography: Sarah Jane (also written as Jane and Sarah separately) uttered at Manchester four £1 bank notes to Thomas Nuttall. She was born at Manchester. Her jail description records that she had a sallow complexion, hazel eyes, dark brown hair, was rather stout made. She was a reeder at a factory. Her father had been convicted of the same crime and transported two years previous and awaited her in Parramatta . Mrs Pryor, close friend of Elizabeth Fry saw Sarah Jane on her arrival at Woolwich with the other female prisoners from Lancaster and stated “the prisoners from Lancaster Castle arrived, not merely handcuffed, but with heavy irons on their legs, which had occasioned considerable swelling, and in one instance, serious inflammation”.

The surgeon recorded that Sarah Jane struggled with enteritis onboard ship. On arrival, she was sent to the female factory at Parramatta and the following year, had a child Edward Higgs in 1823. She agreed to marry an older Irish convict but he died before the wedding could took place. Soon after, she was sent to work for a shoemaker but then was sent back to the female factory due to drunkenness. Sarah Jane married convict James Haworth, a coach-maker in 1825 and helped run the business together.