Date of Conviction: 04/09/1813

Age at Conviction: 29

Crime Convicted of: Receiving Forged Bank Notes

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

Sentence Length: 14 Years

Ship Transported on: Broxbornebury

Where Arrived: Port Jackson, New South Wales

Departure Date: 22/02/1814

Arrival Date: 28/07/1814

Biography: Ann, a married woman of Edgworth near Blackburn was summoned under a special warrant issued at the March assizes of putting away at Bolton a forged £1 bank note. Her mother in law Martha Entwistle was also tried and transported for her involvement in the crime a year earlier and they would eventually sail together on the same ship. Her husband Edward had been transported to Van Diemen’s Land for horse stealing in 1812.

Ann was initially sent to the female factory but in February 1815 received permission to join her husband who was at the Derwent River in Van Diemen’s Land. Her mother in law, who was working as a nurse at the Castle Hill Asylum also received permission to go but after the voyage on the Emu then Broxbornebury couldn’t face going to sea again. It doesn’t appear Ann did go to Van Diemen’s Land as she fell pregnant with barber William Rafter (ship-Archduke Charles) and had a child, also William, in late 1815. Her husband drowned at Port Dalrymple in 1817 leaving her free in 1821 to marry William at the Roman Catholic Church and they lived at Parramatta, going on to have four children altogether. Ann received a conditional pardon in 1826 and a certificate of freedom in 1829. At that time she was described as a calico weaver, 5ft 2 with a fair complexion, dark brown hair and blue eyes.

Ann passed away in 1871 at George St, Parramatta, reportedly age 96 (though more likely about 86).