Ann Hannaway

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iain Frazier on 14th November 2024

Family connections for Ann (Hannaway) are: HANNAWAY-with help from Smees records Ann (Hannaway) was born about 1766. She married firstly in England, perhaps to Daniel (Seymour his second marriage), & produced perhaps 3children. She was tried w/2others for receiving stolen linen sheet etc of William (Hilton) at Old Bailey on 30 12 1789, sentenced to 14years & held at Middlesex Gaol Delivery. She arrived in NSW with 3children. She was sent to Norfolk Island with her child on CITY OF EDINBURGH arriving on 7 8 1790. She arrived in NSW as a convict with her child on 29 6 1790 after a voyage of 6months on Fleet ship NEPTUNE; a voyage noted for extreme brutality of prisoners with a high death rate. [Some details taken from this Website]; where 2entries are found. 1.James (Hannaway) was born in 1789 in England. He arrived in NSW with his mother on 29 6 1790 after a voyage of 6months on Fleet ship NEPTUNE; a voyage noted for extreme brutality of prisoners with a high death rate; he would have went to Norfolk Island with his mother on CITY OF EDINBURGH arriving on 7 8 1790. He is recorded as child off stores on Norfolk Island in February 1805. He left Norfolk Island on 3 9 1808 on CITY OF EDINBURGH to Derwent Tasmania:, arriving on 5 10 1808 he was granted land at Pittwater. 2?.another child mentioned on Website. A Maria (Hannaway) is recorded as child >2yrs on stores in February 1805 on Norfolk Island. 3?.another child mentioned on Website. .. >>>Ann (Hannaway had a second relationship with Robert (Nash), which may have commenced in England, & produced perhaps 6children. She was Free by Servitude by 1802. She was recorded as sentence expired on stores in February 1805 on Norfolk Island. On 3 9 1808 she left Norfolk Island as part of the first evacuation with her family on CITY OF EDINBURGH to Derwent Tasmania, arriving on 5 10 1808; to New Town Hobart Rivulet & Pittwater. She is recorded as off stores at Hobart Town on 2 10 1818. She died on 12 12 1829 age63 mother of perhaps 11children at Sorell Tasmania. Robert (Nash) was born on 17 7 1771 & baptised on 4 8 1771 at St Mary Magdalen Bermondsey Surrey & became a miller. He was tried for burglary, on 26 2 1790, & stealing boots etc of Thomas (Plews) at Old Bailey on 24 4 1790, sentenced to death commuted to Life, held at Middlesex Gaol Delivery & arrived in NSW as a convict on 9 7 1791 after a voyage of 6months on Fleet ship ALBEMARLE; he was sent to Norfolk Island arriving on 11 11 1791. He was Free by Servitude by 1786 & was commended by the Lt. Governor of Norfolk Island for behaving with propriety and advantage to the public, was issued his Conditional Pardon in February 1796 & granted land on which he produced wheat & supplied pork to the government. In 1798 he was made Master of the carpenters. He was issued his Absolute Pardon in 1800. In about 1801 he became the official storekeeper & later Superintendent. He is recorded in February 1805 as settler from convict assistant store supervisor on Norfolk Island. On 3 9 1808 he left Norfolk Island as part of the first evacuation with his family (for which volunteers apparantly had been called with appropriate compensation offerred & for which he may have tried to decline as some successful farmers were asked to stay) on CITY OF EDINBURGH to Derwent Tasmania, arriving on 5 10 1808; he was given 10acres beside the New Town Rivulet where he built a flour mill & lived until flooded in 1809 when he built another flour mill at Hobart Rivulet; then to a grant of 200acres at Pittwater. He was very successful & in 1815 built another flour mill with Government help, which came into operation as a windmill (rather than a flour mill) in 1817. He is recorded as off stores with 1child at Hobart Town on 2 10 1818. He died on 19 3 1819 age48 at Sorell father of perhaps 11children in Van Diemens Land (Tasmania). [Some details taken from this Website] REFERENCES Craig James Smee 'Births and Baptisms Marriages and Defacto Relationships Deaths and Burials New South Wales 1788-1830' ..a complete listing from church & other records in the early colony. Irene Schaffer & Thelma McKay 'Exiled Three Times Over! Profiles of Norfolk Islanders Exiled in Van Diemens Land 1807-1813' James Hugh Donohoe 'Norfolk Island 1788-1813-The People and Their Families' Reg Wright 'Forgotten Generation of Norfolk Island & Van Diemens Land'