Date of Conviction: 31/08/1814

Age at Conviction: 29

Crime Convicted of: Uttering Forged Notes

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

Sentence Length: 14 Years

Ship Transported on: Northampton

Where Arrived: Port Jackson, New South Wales

Departure Date: 01/01/1815

Arrival Date: 18/06/1815

Biography: Ann tried to use a forged £1 bank notes to John Pearson and Ann Wiggans at Liverpool along with Ann Downs. Whilst they were onboard the Northampton in November 1814, awaiting its sailing, they petitioned the Bank of England, Ann Downs writing:

“Mr Westwood Sir Whe take the Liberty of trobiling you as wee are In the Greatest Destress In this world Being Confined this 9 Months In the Castell of Lancaster and having No friends to help Us to aney think whe are almost Lost for Cloathing And Being Confined for the bank Business whe hope that your Hounour Sir will Consither Our Destress Situation and please to Relieve Us as whe are Now going On Bord of the Northamton Going to the Bay and in the Utrmos of Destress and Likewise I Ann Downs Leaving 4 Desolate Children Behind Mee Whe Remaine your Umbel Servant Ann Downs and Ann Pall”.

They were awarded £5 each.

On arrival, Ann was sent to the Parramatta female factory. Ann was recorded as a settler’s wife in 1818 and at Newcastle in 1819. In June 1820 Ann and Samuel Murray (ship- Anne) had a daughter Mary Ann Jane Murray at Parramatta who died at three months old and is buried under a memorial in St Johns Churchyard. In 1822 Ann was recorded as wife of John Cooper (ship- Indefatigable) in Surry Lane, Sydney and was living there with her ten month old daughter Sarah Murray. In 1825, with a ticket of leave (gained in 1823) she was noted as married to Samuel Murr(a)y. No records of marriage for Ann and Samuel or John or birth record for Sarah have been found. In 1828, Ann was described as a washerwoman, living at George Wright’s (ship- Lord Sidmouth) on Cambridge Street, Sydney. In July 1833 Ann (Murray) was in trouble with the law and had to find £10 bail or be sent to the Quarter Sessions she was jailed for two weeks. Whilst she would have been free by servitude in 1828, she did not receive her certificate of freedom until April 1840. Now described as aged 55, a servant, 5ft 2 with a sallow complexion, dark brown hair and hazel eyes, a scar across the top of her nose, one across her left eyebrow and two more on her forehead.