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Transportation
Jane Charters was transported on the Caroline, departing 15th Apr 1833 and arriving 6th Aug 1833 with 122 passengers.
Departed Cove with 120 females from Cork and the surrounding various gaols - also on board were 56 free settlers along with their women and children. wed april 3 1833 .
Caroline (generic)References
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Convict Notes
NSW Convict Index. Jane Charters, per Caroline, 1833, Ticket of Leave, No 41/1868. District, Penrith; Tried, Antrim. Index to Colonial Secretary Letters Received. Jane Charters, per Caroline, 1833. 1838: Letter No 38/3079 and Letter No 38/11541.
At the Antrim Assizes, Jane Charters was tried, found guilty, and sentenced to hanged for the murder of her infant by strangulation. Warder and Dublin Weekly Mail, 31 March 1832. Child Murder —Respite. —Jane Charters, convicted on Thursday of the murder her own child, and who was ordered for execution on Monday, has, we understand, been respited for ten days. Dublin Observer, 25 March 1832. COMMUTATION OF THE SENTENCE OF JANE CHARTERS.-On Wednesday the Sheriff of the county of Antrim received from the Lord Lieutenant a communication commuting to transportation for life the sentence of Jane Charters, who had been condemned at the Carrickfergus Assizes, to be executed for the murder of her child. The credit of this is humane interposition is chiefly due to Mr. John Marshall, of Donegall-street, who having been on the Jury at the time of the trial, suspected that insanity, which, he afterwards learned, had been hereditary in the prisoner's family, might have led to the commission of the act, by a series of most extraordinary exertions, procured, first, a respite, and then the ?? of Donegall, Colonel Pakenham, and other influential gentlemen, having warmly seconded his efforts -a commutation of the sentence. The interest which Dr. Murray, our townsman, evinced in this melancholy case, and the exertions which he used in order to accomplish the object of Mr. Marshall's journey to Dublin, are in the highest degree honorable to him. Belfast News-Letter 27 March 1832. (It is probable that her age on conviction was younger than 60.)
Irish Convict Database, by Peter Mayberry. Jane Charters, age on arrival, 60, arrived per Caroline, (1833) Tried 1832 at Antrim, Life, for Murder. DOB 1773, native place, Antrim Co, Married, 2 children. Protestant. Trade, All work country.