Date of Conviction: 20/01/1791

Age at Conviction: Unknown

Crime Convicted of: Theft

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

Sentence Length: 7 Years

Ship Transported on: Pitt

Where Arrived: Port Jackson, New South Wales

Departure Date: 17/07/1791

Arrival Date: 14/02/1792

Biography: Jane was the wife of John Wood of Manchester, and a cotton spinner. She had stolen a pair of women’s stuff pumps belonging to John Rathbone, worth five pence. She had been convicted before. After conviction at Salford, she was part of a group of six men and women taken to Lancaster Castle by jailer Mr Higgin to await transportation.

Free by 1798, Jane had a daughter, Elizabeth with convict Joseph Dunsfield/Dransfield (ship- Ganges) in 1800 but she did not form a long term relationship with him. The same year she was granted 60 acres of land (Wood farm) in the district ‘of the Eastern Farms’, later named Kissing Point and sold it in 1803. Instead she soon married another Ganges convict, Thomas Wilson at St Johns Parramatta in December 1801 and signed her own name on the register. Jane’s daughter died five years later in January 1806. She was recorded as his wife on the muster this year.

In 1818, Thomas, still at Kissing Point, reported in the newspapers that Jane had absconded from him, without any provocation and he would not be held responsible for her or any debts she might incur. It is not clear whether they reconciled but Jane was recorded on the 1820 and 21 musters as being married at Parramatta. After this time, there are no further records of her.