Convict Jane Falkard - Convict Records

Summary

Born

Jan 1785

Conviction

Unknown

Departure

Jul 1813

Arrival

Jan 1814

Death

Dec 1865

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Personal Information

Name: Jane Falkard

Gender: Female

Born: 1st Jan 1785

Death: 4th Dec 1865

Age at death: 80

Occupation: Unknown

Crime

Crime: Unknown

Convicted at: Suffolk Assizes

Sentence term: 7 years

Voyage

Departed: 31st Jul 1813

Ship: Wanstead

Arrival: 9th Jan 1814

Place of Arrival: New South Wales

Transportation

Jane Falkard was transported on the Wanstead, departing 31st Jul 1813 and arriving 9th Jan 1814 with 120 passengers.

Wanstead (generic)

References

Primary Source	Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 87, Class and Piece Number HO11/2, Page Number 110
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

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on 6th May 2017

Daughter of John Falkard (shown as FOKET on her Death Certificate) from Sussex. On 23 July 1812 Jane was indicted for stealing £35.00.00 contained in a red leather pocket book from John Buck, Dunwich. "Suffolk Chronicle" A Whitehall document, dated 10.8.1812, states that Jane Falkard and others had been sentenced to death at the last Assizes for the Norfolk Circuit tried at Sufolk on Thursday 23July 1812. Jane Falkard guilty of stealing in a "dwelling house property above the value of 40/-." Her sentence was commuted to transportation beyond the seas for the term of seven years. (Index of Goal Delivery for the Norfolk Circuit 1812 PRO. R. 3082 at pp 221-2. On 3 July 1813 the Ipswich Gazette reports "that Sunday last Jane Falkard boarded the "Wanstead" lying at Blackwall." The "Wanstead"departed Spithead, England 24 August 1813. Jane arrived in Sydney, accompanied by a child Thomas born 1813 who died 1 March 1814, on the 'Wanstead' on 9 January 1814 (Macquarie Despatch No 1190 at p. 248). The 13 January 1814 finds Jane on list of women prisoners from the "Wanstead" sent to Parramatta; listed as Falkerd (Reel 6004; 4/3493 p.12 - see also Reel 1028 p.12) Jane received a Ticket of leave and Absolute Pardon (No 1668) T/L: No. 2566 Absolute Pardon No. 1668. Married John Smith "Indian" 13 June 1814 at St Johns Church Parramatta NSW by Rev Samuel Marsden