Date of Conviction: 21/03/1812

Age at Conviction: 28

Crime Convicted of: Theft

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

Sentence Length: 7 Years

Ship Transported on: Emu then Broxbornebury

Where Arrived: Port Jackson, New South Wales

Departure Date: 11/11/1812

Arrival Date: 28/07/1814

Biography: Jane was part of a large group who stole two hundredweight of tobacco from a warehouse at Liverpool. They left Lancaster to head for Woolwich about the 1st October, having been provided with shifts, stockings, shoes and handkerchiefs.

Originally transported on the Emu, the ship was captured at Cape Verde. Jane and the other prisoners were repatriated back to Woolwich where they were then transferred onto Broxbornebury- making it a two year journey for them.

Jane married John Shannon (ship- Tellicherry) at St Johns, Parramatta four months after arriving in November 1814. Jane had a daughter, Eleanor around 1815. Jane was twice in court in 1820 when she was jailed for a month and 1822 was discharged, after having gained her freedom. However, she was widowed around 1821.

By 1822, Jane was recorded as the wife of George Davis at Sydney and again as such in 1825. Jane and George, a boatman, (ship- Earl Spencer- convicted at Maidstone) had married at St Mary’s, Sydney in February 1822, though she had married under the surname Henry (possibly a clerical error?). George, Jane and her daughter Eleanor are recorded living together at Gloucester Street, Sydney in 1822.

It seems plausible due to no further records of either that they died shortly after- A waterman, George Davis, drowned at Cockle Bay after falling from his craft having been seized with a fit in July 1826 and a Jane Davis (recorded aged 45) died in December 1826.