Date of Conviction: 23/03/1809

Age at Conviction: 37

Crime Convicted of: Uttering Forged Coins

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

Sentence Length: Life

Ship Transported on: Canada

Where Arrived: Port Jackson, New South Wales

Departure Date: 23/03/1810

Arrival Date: 08/09/1820

Biography: Ann was the wife of James Shadwell/Shatwell of Stockport (then in Cheshire); she was a cotton spinner. She was initially sentenced to transportation for 7 years in October 1801 at Salford but was pardoned and freed from Lancaster Castle in January 1805 as she was in poor health.

NOTE- It then becomes difficult to decide if Ann Shadwell convicted to life for uttering in 1809 is the same or another Ann. Ann Shadwell was also was convicted at Ormskirk sessions 1805/6 of uttering bad money and given another year’s imprisonment and £40 fine She was convicted under the name Ann Sharp alias Shadwell. She had been brought to trial there from the Preston House of Correction for having had a quantity of counterfeit shillings in her possession. It is possible that all are one and the same as none of the incarceration dates overlap, all crimes are for uttering forged coins and therefore I have treated the records as one person.

In 1809, now at Lancaster Assizes, the death sentence she had received for issuing three forged shillings was reprieved.

Ann lived with William Vale (ship- Fortune) as his housekeeper and partner at Wilberforce where they were recorded in 1820, 25 and 1828. Their relationship was a common law one as they were both already married. They were at Richmond in 1841. They had had several children- William who died at just one month old in 1811, Ann (Hannah), around 1813 and John in 1814.