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ANN ASHTON 1818 - 1889
Ann Ashton was born in Cumberland in the north of England (now part of Cumbria). She was 18, working where possible as a housemaid, when she was convicted of theft by Housebreaking. Ann was reported as having prior offences and of being ‘On the Town’ (poorhouse) for 3 years when convicted in the Edinburgh Court of Justiciary on 14 March 1837 and sentenced to 7 years Transportation. She was transferred to prison in Chatham, Kent awaiting shipment from London. Ann was described as 18 years old, 5' 4 3/4" tall with dark complexion and grey eyes. She was transported on the ship 'Atwick', of 341 tons and the Master was McKay. There were 150 convicts aboard, all female, when the ‘Atwick' left London on 30 September 1837, and arrived in Hobart on 23 January 1838. In Tasmania, Ann was assigned to Mr. Swan in 1838, and later that year to Mr. Clarke. She was not a perfect convict being ‘Absent without Leave’ from the servitude on a number of occasions. Her penalty on three occasions was Cell on Bread and Water. She was granted her Ticket of Leave 1 May 1844. Ann received her Free Certificate on 24 November 1847. During her servitude Ann applied for Permission-to-Marry which was granted on 13 September 1839.
Ann, aged 20, married John Williams, a Free man, aged 26 years on the 21 October 1839 in St. David's Church Hobart Town. The Williams family lived in Melville Street where John worked as a cooper, that is, a maker or repairer of casks and barrels. The registration of the children’s birth by mother Ann indicated she could not read and write as she gave her mark X cross on the registration papers. Ann and John's children were christened at St. David's. First child Thomas William, born 13 November 1841 died at only 5mths. There were four more children – two girls and two boys. Ann lived on to be 74 years when she died at her Murray Street home on 4 December 1889. Her husband predeceased her on 18 August 1866 aged 51 years.
Submitted by Researcher (David Dwyer) on 12 August 2017
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- The National Archives (TNA) : HO 11/11, p.141
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