Date of Conviction: 22/01/1817

Age at Conviction: 34

Crime Convicted of: Theft

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

Sentence Length: 7 Years

Ship Transported on: Friendship (2)

Where Arrived: Port Jackson, New South Wales

Departure Date: 03/07/1817

Arrival Date: 14/01/1818

Biography: Ann had stolen handkerchiefs at Manchester, belonging to George Oldham. She left Lancaster Castle with eight other women to be taken to Deptford to board the ship on the 27 May 1817. She was described the the ship’s surgeon as “lazy, scrofulous and epileptic and a very bad temper”.

In July 1820, Ann married convict (E)manuel Gomes/Gomez/Coomes/Cooney (ship- Fortune) at St Johns Parramatta. Manuel was a Portuguese sailor who had received a life sentence for highway robbery whilst at Southampton. The couple were moved around various government depots and livestock stations near Bathurst but were described as notorious characters and corrupt and whose depraved practices meant they were wholly unsuitable for the positions they had been put in!

With Emanuel in and out of prison in the later 1820s he escaped in early 1827 to ‘go and see his woman’ at Parramatta. However, it appears that Ann was soon to be sent to the Liverpool Asylum and it was here recorded phonetically as ‘Ann Comay’ she passed away ‘insane’ and was buried on 16 December 1827, recorded as aged 44 in St Lukes Cemetery (now the Liverpool Pioneers’ Memorial Park).