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Louisa Anderson was transported on the Janus, departing 23rd Oct 1819 and arriving 3rd May 1820 with 109 passengers.
Rig Type: S. Built: New York 1810 Size (tons): 308 The Janus was also a whaling ship. 1819/20 voyage: Female convicted women embarked in England and then in Cork, Ireland. One Rebecca Connolly embarked at Cork but due to ill health was returned to Depot. Sailed on 19 Dec 1819. Arrived at Port Jackson, NSW 3 May 1820. On 20th May, 68 of the women was boarded on the Princess Charlotte bound for Van Diemen's Land, to Port Dalrymple and Hobart. A formal enquiry was held as to the treatment of the women by the Captain and his crew. Note: Not all of the women from Ireland have been included yet on this Register. Currently being updated. Two of the Women convicts, Mary Long, and Lydia Elsden claimed to be in a pregnant condition on arrival. Mary Long claimed the Captain, thomas Mowat, was the father of her child, and Lydia Elsden claimed the Chief Officer, John Hedges, was the father of her child, to which they both swore before the Magistrate.
Janus (generic)References
| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 88, Class and Piece Number HO11/3, Page Number 242. Tasmanian Archives - convicts, conduct record pg 5; Tas Pioneer Index BDM; trove newspapers online. |
| Source Description | This record is one of the entries in the British convict transportation registers 1787-1867 database compiled by State Library of Queensland from British Home Office (HO) records which are available on microfilm as part of the Australian Joint Copying Pro |
| Original Source | Great Britain. Home Office |
| Compiled By | State Library of Queensland |
| Database Source | British convict transportation registers 1787-1867 database |
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Convict Notes
Old Bailey Online 619. LOUISA ANDERSON was indicted for stealing, on the 14th of March , one watch, value 1 l.; one seal, value 2 d.; one key, value 2 d.; one purse, value 1 d., and the sum of 11 s. in monies numbered, the property of William Phipps , from his person . WILLIAM PHIPPS . I am a servant . On Sunday, the 4th of March, about half-past eight o'clock at night, I met the prisoner in Oxford-street, near the Pantheon. I walked to the corner of Dean-street, she followed me; we went into a public-house, and had a pint of beer, in a short time I fell asleep in the tap-room, as I had been walking from the country, and was tired; the landlord awoke me, and asked me if I had lost any thing? when I missed my watch from my fob, and my money from my pocket - he produced my watch, and I claimed it - I was quite sober. ROBERT HOWARD . I was constable of the night. About half-past eleven o'clock at night Cook brought the prisoner to the watch-house, she said the man was her husband; I said I would go and see if he was or not. I went to the Black Horse, public-house, and found the prosecutor coming out - he went to the watch-house and claimed the watch - he said she was not his wife. I found 1 s. 6 d. on her. I found a bag lying in the sand-box, where she sat; Phipps said it was the purse his money was in. I put her in with another woman, she sent out half a crown to buy bread and cheese. I fetched her out, searched her again, and found half a crown and some halfpence upon her. JOHN COOK . I keep the Black Horse, public-horse, in Oxford-street. I went out about nine o'clock, returned in an hour, and was informed that a woman had robbed a man in the tap-room; I went in and asked the prisoner what she had to do with the prosecutor, who was asleep? she said he was her husband, and told me to walk out, for it was nothing to me. I told her she had better give up the watch and property, or I would call the watchman. I called him, and told her to leave the watch with me till the morning - she gave me the watch, but not the money, as she said it was her own. I awoke Phipps, he missed his watch and money, and said she was not his wife. We took her to the watch-house. EDWARD HUDD . I was in the house, having some beer, and saw the prisoner pulling the prosecutor about I did not see her take any thing. Prisoner's Defence. He let the watch fall, and I picked it up. GUILTY . Aged 22. Transported for Seven Years . First Middlesex Jury, before Mr. Recorder.
Marriage to William Comstive - presume it is her in the index under the name of Eleanor Louisa Egerton to William Comsterel at Hobart 04/09/1822. Ref. 570/1822-36. Further Court conviction, in Colony: 30/12/1842 Launceston S.C. Steal 12 shirts. 12mths imprisonment with hard labour. (Under the name Louisa Comstive.) Died at Launceston, Tasmania on 13/10/1843. Ref. 1008/1843-35 - under the name Louise Constive.
married Hobart to William COMSTIVE, convict per "Lady Ridley" two sons COMSTIVE was further transported for Life to Norfolk Island in 1834. Louisa never saw William again. He wrote a long letter from there to Louisa, which is reproduced in James BACKHOUSE's narrative of his travels in Australia. Louisa went to prison for a few months before she died. Louisa died Launceston 1843. Her sons were still alive after she died, but disappear from sight soon after that. Have checked Tas & Vic BDM indices - nothing found.
Louisa Anderson was convicted at London April 1819 for 7yrs. Transported to NSW on the 'Janus' and then on to Van Diemen's Land on the 'Princess Charlotte', arriving 1820. Van Diemen's Land: 21/12/1820: Refuse to perform her duties - to wear an iron collar and sit in the stocks 4hrs every day until she returned to her duty.