Date of Conviction: 01/05/1797

Age at Conviction: 23

Crime Convicted of: Unknown

Court/s Convicted at: Lancaster Quarter Sessions (held at the Town Hall, Ormskirk)

Sentence Length: 7 Years

Ship Transported on: Britannia

Where Arrived: Port Jackson, New South Wales

Departure Date: 31/01/1798

Arrival Date: 18/07/1798

Biography: Rosetta was a single woman from Warrington. On the 23rd December 1797 Whitehall sent a letter to Lancaster Castle requesting that Rosetta and the other women awaiting transportation be furnished with shifts, stockings, handkerchiefs and shoes for the voyage. This was followed by a second letter on the 26th January asking why the women had not yet left Lancaster- they must have been very hurriedly taken soon after as the ship sailed just five days later.

Soon after arrival, Rosetta had a daughter, Eleanor with a free settler Adam Cross (ship- Hunter) (also listed as Crank/Clink) but there was no marriage and soon after the relationship ended. From 1801 onwards, Rosetta began a relationship with Hugh Owen/s (ship- Marquis Cornwallis) and they had at seven children (four sons and three daughters), some before and some after their marriage at Parramatta St Johns in January 1810. Her husband spent most of his colonial life as a soldier in the local regiments and after his conditional pardon, the couple were granted a large acreage of land which they farmed at Wilberforce. After Hugh died in 1835, Rosetta, now aged 65, re-married Samuel Daw (ship- Isabella) in 1839 at St Matthews, Windsor. he was widowed again six years later in 1845. Rosetta lived on the Parramatta Road in 1848 and died in March 1851, aged 77. She is buried at Camperdown Cemetery.