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Transportation
Jane Anson was transported on the Greenlaw, departing 7th Mar 1844 and arriving 2nd Jul 1844 with 113 passengers.
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Convict Notes
Name: Anson, Jane Record Type: Convicts Child: Anson, William George Property: Cascades Female House of Correction Departure date: 7 Mar 1844 Departure port: Dublin Ship: Greenlaw Place of origin: Chester, Cheshire Origin location: Latitude and Longitude Voyage number: 234 Child's birth: 30 Jan 1846 Child's baptism: 05 Feb 1846 Index number: 1211 Record ID: NAME_INDEXES:1369220 https://libraries.tas.gov.au/Record/NamesIndex/1369220
Greenlaw – Surgeon’s Journal. National Archives. ADM 101/30/3/1 Daily sick list of the Greenlaw female convict ship. Folio 2: Jane Anson, aged 30; convict; disease or hurt, prolapsus uteri. Put on sick list, 8 March 1844. Discharged, 13 March 1844.
13 Aug 1871: Death - Jane COOK, aged 68yrs; from England; Residence Stony Steps, Hobart district, Tasmania. Gardner's wife. Cause - "malignant disease of stomach". Notified by Charles Cook. (ref. Tas Archives 35/1/8 no. 503)
Jane ANSON was convicted at Antrim, Ireland on 27 June 1843 for Larceny - stealing money. Previous for stealing clothes. 10yr transportation sentence. Sent to Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania) per the ship 'Greenlaw' arriving 1844. Aged 36 yrs; widow; 5'6 1/2"; housemaid/nurse maid/dairy woman; can read; fair complexion; dk brown hair; Hazel eyes; scar on right hand & crippled little finger; Church of England religion. Native place of birth: Chester Father: Edward, at Chester 4 Brothers: John, William, Thomas & Robert. 2 Sisters: Alice, at Chester & Elizabeth at Liverpool. (ref. for family details - Convict Indent) VDL: 6 months Probation Period. Stationed on the 'Anson' Hulk in Derwent River, Hobart. 31 Jan 1846: Delivered of a male child, named William George ANSON, at the Cascades Female Factory, Sth Hobart. (ref. Tas Archives 33/1/2 no. 1492 - mother's name is indexed as "Jean Anson". Father's name not recorded.) 20 Sept 1847: Child William admitted to the Queens Orphanage, aged 1 yr 6mths. (It was common for children of women convicts to be admitted to the Orphanage so they could continue with work service.) 21 Jan 1849: Child William ANSON died - cause "croup". He was buried at St. Johns Cemetery, New Town, Hobart. (ref. 35/1/2 no. 2260) 5 Nov 1849: Application for Permission to Marry - Jane ANSON per Greenlaw to Charles COOKE per Gilmore. Approved. 4 Feb 1850: Marriage - Jane ANSON, full age, widow to Charles COOKE, full age, gardner, at St. George's Anglican Church, Hobart. (ref. Tas Archives 37/1/9 no 166) Ticket of Leave granted. 5 July 1853: Certificate of Freedom issued.