Date of Conviction: 16/01/1826

Age at Conviction: 27

Crime Convicted of: Theft from the Person

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

Sentence Length: Life

Ship Transported on: Grenada (2)

Where Arrived: Sydney Cove, New South Wales

Departure Date: 01/09/1826

Arrival Date: 23/01/1827

Biography: Hannah, a single woman, had snatched a purse containing £3, a handkerchief and a book at Manchester along with a William Foulkes belonging to John Brickhill. In jail she was described as ‘she was born at Bombay, India. Sallow complexion, brown eyes, dark brown hair, pitted with smallpox. A scar on her forehead and lower lip. Broad set. A servant’.

Soon after arrival, Hannah absconded from her assigned service and was put in the third class of the female factory for a month. In 1828 Hannah was assigned as a laundress to flamboyant and soon to be failed attorney general Alexander ‘Dandy’ Macduff Baxter. Hannah was given permission and married fellow convict William Lloyd (ship- Hibernia) in late 1829 at Christ Church, Newcastle- she was noted as a widow at the time of marriage. They had a child, Elizabeth, in 1835. In 1837 the couple lived at Maitland.

In July 1841, now aged 42, Hannah was given a conditional pardon. At this time she was described as having been born in Bengal, India (a contrast to the 1826 record on the other side of the Indian sub-continent) 5 ft 2, ruddy complexion with hair, eyes and scar as before. Hannah was widowed in 1863. Hannah herself died at Maitland at the considerable age of 82 in 1881.