Researchers who have claimed this convict
There is currently one researcher who has claimed Fanny Williams
- Researcher (Mark Godfrey)
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Biographies
Fanny is referred to as Frances Williams in the two documents associated with her application to marry in 1829, but everywhere else is referred to as Fanny Williams. There is a Frances Williams on the First Fleet with whom she should not be confused. The Certificate of Freedom from 1836, describing her as Fanny Williams, states, "Wife of Mr Wm Hickey who came free to the colony. Had a Ticket of Leave No. 28/326 dated 18 August 1828." The Certificate of Freedom describes her as 5 Feet 1.5 inches tall, fair complexion and slightly pock pitted, with brown hair and hazel eyes, and born in 1804. The Ticket of Leave describes her in similar terms but with grey eyes, as a dressmaker, and born in 1806.
Fanny was from Islington in London. She was tried at the Old Bailey on 14 May 1823 and convicted of "stealing from the person". She was sentenced to 7 years transportation. The ship Muster Roll from 1824 describes her as "well behaved", and the Application to Marry describes her as of good character.
William Hickey (born in 1796), her husband, came to Sydney in 1821 as a free migrant. He had been preceded by his convict father in 1815, and by his mother and four younger siblings in 1817. The family appears to have all moved to the Hunter River region near Paterson and Morpeth. In 1823, William Hickey of Newcastle was assigned a convict and on the Application to Marry Frances (Fanny) Williams he is described as "employed in agriculture at Hunters River and able to support a wife". By 1824 he had been granted 600 acres on the north bank of the Hunter River just down from the junction with the Paterson River and the town of Morpeth.
William and Fanny had a child, Eliza Hickey, in 1829. William appears to have lived in the Hunter River region until his death in 1846 when he accidentally drowned in the Hunter River. The last confident record of Fanny is her Certificate of Freedom in 1836, on which she is described as a nursemaid.
Submitted by Researcher (Mark Godfrey) on 11 December 2015
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- The National Archives (TNA) : HO 11/5, p.110
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