Date of Conviction: 31/08/1814

Age at Conviction: 37

Crime Convicted of: Coining

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

Sentence Length: Life

Ship Transported on: Mary Anne (2)

Where Arrived: Port Jackson, New South Wales

Departure Date: 01/07/1815

Arrival Date: 19/01/1816

Biography: Jane, originally from Armagh, Ireland had already served a six month sentence for uttering base coins in 1812. Along with her husband William Getty, Jane forged 24 sixpences at Liverpool. They were both reprieved of the death sentence and sent to New South Wales for life. She travelled with their daughters, also Jane, aged four and Elizabeth aged three. William was on the ship ‘Baring’.

Jane arrived in New South Wales four months after her husband where the family were immediately reunited and lived together with Jane acting as a lodging house keeper in a rented farmhouse belonging to Daniel Dering Mathew at Clanville, Lane Cove. Only months later, Jane and William had to give evidence when a man who was lodging with them had hanged himself in their house. The man was discovered by one of their daughters. Just two months after in May, they were also burgled and they lost multiple items of clothing and both of their tickets of leave. By 1818 though, Jane was noted as single, though William was still living, suggesting they may have separated and in 1820 she was in the female factory. In 1825, Jane was employed by a Mrs Hill at Sydney. Jane died in March 1826.