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Transportation
Janet Falconer was transported on the Hector, departing 11th Jun 1835 and arriving 20th Oct 1835 with 134 passengers.
Hector (generic)References
| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 90, Class and Piece Number HO11/10, Page Number 84 |
| 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
1835 - Description List. Indent No; 127 Trade; House Servant Height; 5 ft 4 3/4 in Age; 19 years [Born about 1816/7] Native Place; Edinbro'
Andrew Wright's first wife died in England, and second son died there in 1833. From death record.
Janet gave birth to a son George in the Cascades Female Factory, father unknown. The baby died at 3 months on 27 March 1837. There was also a petition for permission to marry for Thomas White, free man, and Janet, approved 23 October 1837, but no evidence that a marriage took place.
Child George d. 3 months old, in Cascades Female Factory 27 March 1837;TofL 6 May 1841; Cert of Freedom 9 June 1841; married freeman Andrew Wright, prosperous businessman/publican/landowner 8 September 1845 at Newtown, he a widower aged 53, she aged 28; children Mary Jane bd. 3 September 1842, Janet/Jennet b. 1846, Eliza b.?, Andrew b. 18 April 1860. They moved to land grants adjoining those of the extensive Firth family who founded Kingston on Brown's River, marrying into this family. Mary Jane m. Henry William Firth & when she died, he married her widowed sister Eliza. Firth patriarch Joseph Crossley Firth was sentenced to life transportation in 1820 at York, for High Treason (death sentence commuted), for taking up arms against the government. He was from Barnsley, Yorkshire. When pardoned 1827 he brought his family out; land grants in Sandy Bay & Kingston. Mary Jane & Henry Firth had six children born at Kingston.
A woman called Janet Falconer (or Faulkener) married Andrew Wright in Newtown in Hobart on 8 September 1845. He was 53, a widower, and she was 28. Her birthdate was recorded as 1817. She gave birth to Andrew on 18 April 1850 and he was baptised in St Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Hobart on 19 May 1850, and died in 1888 in Kingston, Tas. There are three other children, Mary Ann b. 3 September 1843 in Hobart, Janet b.? m. Henry Pulsford 14 July 1863,and Eliza b.? m. J Morgan 14 July 1866, widowed, m. Henry William Firth of Kingston, Tasmania 2 July 1895. No birth records are available for the last two children. I found no evidence of the death of Andrew Wright's first wife in Hobart, so Janet could be the mother of all children.