Date of Conviction: 31/01/1815

Age at Conviction: 21

Crime Convicted of: Theft

Court Convicted at: Lancaster Quarter Sessions (held at the Old Moot Hall, Wigan)

Sentence Length: 7 Years

Ship Transported on: Lord Melville

Where Arrived: Port Jackson, New South Wales

Departure Date: 29/08/1816

Arrival Date: 24/02/1817

Biography: Ann, a servant, left Lancaster Castle for the south coast on the 8th July along with 14 other female convicts. She was a single woman of Liverpool who had used the alias Ann Calligan and had stolen from James Mooney. Her surname name also appears as Holmes.

In April 1819, Ann married convict Thomas Cossar (ship- Baring) at Sydney. The marriage did not get off to a good start as by December Thomas was sent off to Newcastle for a year as a penal punishment. By 1820, Ann had been transferred to Hobart in Van Diemen’s Land though this seems to be a clerical error and perhaps she went to Newcastle to join her husband. Either way, back in Sydney, by March 1822, her husband reported her as having eloped from the family home and would not be held responsible for any debts she incurred.

In 1828, Ann (listed as Ann Corsan), reappeared and was living by herself, free by servitude, as a laundress at Darling Harbour. She died in 1858 at Sydney, aged 67.