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Jane Farrell was transported on the Janus, departing 23rd Oct 1819 and arriving 3rd May 1820 with 109 passengers.
Rig Type: S. Built: New York 1810 Size (tons): 308 The Janus was also a whaling ship. 1819/20 voyage: Female convicted women embarked in England and then in Cork, Ireland. One Rebecca Connolly embarked at Cork but due to ill health was returned to Depot. Sailed on 19 Dec 1819. Arrived at Port Jackson, NSW 3 May 1820. On 20th May, 68 of the women was boarded on the Princess Charlotte bound for Van Diemen's Land, to Port Dalrymple and Hobart. A formal enquiry was held as to the treatment of the women by the Captain and his crew. Note: Not all of the women from Ireland have been included yet on this Register. Currently being updated. Two of the Women convicts, Mary Long, and Lydia Elsden claimed to be in a pregnant condition on arrival. Mary Long claimed the Captain, thomas Mowat, was the father of her child, and Lydia Elsden claimed the Chief Officer, John Hedges, was the father of her child, to which they both swore before the Magistrate.
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On 16th May sixty-eight of the women were embarked on the 'Princess Charlotte' bound for Van Diemen's Land. They were obliged at first to put back into port for a week because of unfavourable winds however soon resumed this second voyage. Twenty-five women were sent to Port Dalrymple and forty-three to Hobart. https://stors.tas.gov.au/CON13-1-2$init=CON13-1-2p51 List of Prisoners per Princess Charlotte to Port Dalrymple. Jane Farrell or Armstrong, age 19, Housemaid, Co Dublin, Mar 1819, 7 years.
Jane married James Smith Alias King (a convict) on February 8, 1853, in Launceston, Tasmania. They had seven children in 13 years. She and James were living in Perth Tasmania when she died.
Jane Armstrong, a convict who came from Dublin, Ireland and who also used an alias, as her convict papers record her name as Farrell. Jane was sentenced in March 1819 to 7 years transportation to New South Wales for the felony of a bank note. Jane was aboard the convict ship "Janus" which sailed from Cork on the 5th of December 1819 arriving in Sydney on 3rd May 1820 a voyage of 150 Days. The Janus was in fact an old Whaling ship converted to carry convicts and during this voyage she carried 105 female passengers of which one died on the voyage. The ships master was a Thomas J Mowat and the Surgeon listed as James Creagh. There was an enquiry into conditions aboard the Janus after her arrival, relating to prostitution during the voyage, with many of the women found pregnant on arrival. However the catholic priest aboard assured that none of the catholic women were involved ! 16 Days after the Janus Arrived 43 of the women convicts were taken to Hobart, to be employed in public service, amongst them was Jane. She arrived in Van Diemens land on 7th June 1820 aboard the ship "Princess Charlotte".