Date of Conviction: 05/03/1814

Age at Conviction: 24

Crime Convicted of: Theft from a Dwelling House

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

Sentence Length: Life

Ship Transported on: Northampton

Where Arrived: Port Jackson, New South Wales

Departure Date: 01/01/1815

Arrival Date: 18/06/1815

Biography: Jane (also Host), a servant, stole from the house of George Hoskins at Liverpool, 6 silver tablespoons, 5 silver teaspoons and a silver mustard pot. She had a death sentence reprieved.

Soon after arrival in December, Jane was employed as housekeeper and married to William Skinn (ship- Admiral Gambier) at Parramatta and signed her own name. They had two daughters, Rachel and Mary Ellen who both lived long lives but their baby son Charles died at a year old in 1822. She had been drinking spirits with neighbours earlier in the day on the 22nd March 1822 at Liverpool and that evening, died suddenly and unexpectedly from a stroke in her husbands arms and after an inquest was held, was buried two days later, she was just 33. She is remembered on a plaque at the Liverpool Pioneers Park.