Date of Conviction: 24/07/1799

Age at Conviction: 19

Crime Convicted of: Theft

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

Sentence Length: 7 Years

Ship Transported on: Earl Cornwallis

Where Arrived: Port Jackson, New South Wales

Departure Date: 18/11/1800

Arrival Date: 12/06/1801

Biography: Ann was a single woman of Manchester who had stolen cotton wool. In October 1800, the order came to Lancaster Castle to send Ann and twelve other woman with clothing, to Gravesend.

The year she arrived in New South Wales, Ann married John Hinder, a soldier and they had three boys by 1806 when Ann was already free by servitude. Ann gained her certificate of freedom in June 1810.

By 1816 Ann and John and their children had moved to Ceylon where John was now stationed with his regiment. Over time and after John’s early death from cholera, the family moved to Calcutta. The boys would go on to hold senior positions in the East India Company and one eventually moved back to Sydney.

Ann passed away in April 1825 and is buried at the Old Military Burial Ground, later named the Bhowanipore Cemetery in Calcutta (Kolkata) with a plaque that read ‘Sacred to the Memory of Mrs Ann Hinder, died April 5th 1825, aged 45. Dust thou art unto dust shalt thou return’.