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- Researcher (David Edwards)
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Biographies
Eleanor MOORE, Native Place Brighton England, was convicted at the Sussex (Lewes) Assizes on 28 November 1844. Her crime was stealing a pair of boots She had previously been convicted of felony 3 times, and of vagrancy 4 times. She was sentenced to 10 years transportation.
She arrived in Hobart Town, Van Diemen's Land, aged 22, on the 3rd convict voyage of the ship “Lloyds” on 7 November 1845. The Surgeon's Report stated that she was “Very Industrious made 20 Shirts and (was) well behaved”.
On arrival, she was 5' 1” tall, with a fresh complexion, black hair and blue eyes. Her convict records include several absences without leave. On 26 Feb 1847 she was delivered of an (unnamed) illegitimate child. She received her Certificate of Freedom on 28 November 1854.
The latter years of her sentence must have been without problems, probably because she was a wife and mother living in Melville Street, Hobart. On 10 April 1848 she married convict Henry WILLIS. The marriage was conducted in the Bethesda Church in the District of St George's. She stated that her age was 21, subtracting 4 years from her age.
The marriage produced 4 children in the next 6 years:
Ellen WILLIS a girl born 10 Jan 1850
Eliza WILLIS a girl born 6 April 1851
Cornelius John WILLIS a boy born 29 June 1852
Thomas WILLIS a boy born 3 June 1854
Disaster stuck the family, however when on 19 Sep 1854 in the District of Campbell Town, Henry WILLIS “accidentally drowned when in a state of intoxication”. An inquest was held on 25 September 1854 which confirmed the cause of death.
Daughter Ellen WILLIS died a spinster in Bathurst Street on 24 October 1897.
Son Thomas WILLIS (aged 12) was admitted to the Queen's Orphan School at New Town in 1866, leaving the Orphan School on 7 August 1866 under the care of the Rev'd Thomas DOVE of Swansea. It appears that he was married (aged 34) to Mary Ann ADAMS (aged 29) on 24 May 1889. The ceremony was carried out at the Rev'd John Wilkes SIMMONDS' house in Scott Street, Glebe, Hobart.
Eleanor (or Elleanor or Ellen or Helen – these names all appear in the records) WILLIS nee MOORE also appears in the records as a witness to the marriage of her brother convict Daniel MOORE to convict Ann Pagett on 26 August 1850. She is also shown as the informant when her brother in law Daniel MOORE dies at her house on 1 March 1852.
Daniel MOORE and ANN MOORE nee PAGETT are my great great grandparents, so Eleanor WILLIS nee MOORE is my second cousin twice removed.
During my research I noticed that the baptism records for Cornelius John WILLIS (baptised 18 July 1851) and my great grandmother Emma Ann MOORE (born 4 November 1851, baptised 24 October 1851) are on adjacent pages in the Baptism records for the Parish of Trinity in the County of Buckingham. Both children were baptised by the Rev'd H. A. MIDDLETON.
David Edwards 30 May 2016
Submitted by Researcher (David Edwards) on 30 May 2016
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- The National Archives (TNA) : HO 11/14, p.343
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