Jane Ferriday

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iain Frazier on 23rd May 2024

Family connections for Jane (Ferriday) are: FERRIDAY Jane (Fer/riday/Farralty) was born about 1783. She was tried for stealing with force & arms silver teapot etc of Mrs (Yonge) & Mrs Francis (Holmes) at Shropshire Assizes Northampton on 22 3 1806, sentnced to death reprieved to Life & arrived in NSW on 18 6 1897 on after a voyage of 5.5months on SYDNEY COVE. She married John (Pike) on 26 12 1807 & produced 12children. She left her marriage in 1838. She died on 17 8 1851 age68 from injuries sustained in a a cab & cart accident in George St Sydney.. [Some details taken from this Website] John (Pike) was born about 1770/8 in Faringdon Berkshire, son of Richard (Pike) & Mary (Wicks), baptised at Faringdon parish church on 27 5 1777, lived at St Helens parish Wallingford Oxfordshire & became an ostler & haymaker for Henry (Richards) owner of Crown and Thistle Inn Abingdon Berkshire. He apparantly had a first marriage & produced a family. He was living at Turnagain Lane Abingdon Reading Berkshire when he was tried for stealing kitchen utencils etc of Henry & Frederick (Richards) at Abingdon Reading Berwiclshire Summer Assizes on 31 7 1797, sentenced to 7years. held perhaps at Birmingham & on hulk LA FORTUNEE in Langston Harbour Portsmouth & arrived in NSW as a convict on 14 8 1802 after a voyage of 7months on PERSEUS. He was recorded in 1806 as Free by Servitude employed by J (O'Hara/Harn). He was assigned to ??? (Collet) at Toongabbee. He was wounded in the leg by convicts in the Castle Hill Rebellion in 1804. He seems to have had a relationship with Sarah (Hughes). He was recorded in 1814 as landholder off stores on 270acres grant. On 10 6 1825 he was convicted of selling spirits without licence & fined. In 1828 he was recorded with 850acres, maybe at Prospect. He died on 23 12 1860 age90 (the newspaper recorded age107) father of perhaps 13children-from gangrene in his arm obtained in accident involving upset of a cart driven by his daughter in law & was buried at St Bartholomews Prospect. [Some details taken from this Website] Reference: Craig James Smee 'Births and Baptisms Marriages and Defacto Relationships Deaths and Burials New South Wales 1788-1830' ..a complete listing from church & other records in the early colony.

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Beth Taylor on 18th August 2019

1806 - Court records state that Jane was formally sentenced at Salop Assizes, for stealing with force and arms 54 guineas and a silver teapot from Mrs Yonge and also half a yard of silk taffeta from Mrs Francis Holmes. Jane was apparently involved in the robbing of stagecoaches under rather unusual circumstances. JANE FERRIDAY/FARRALTY [ref. 632/248] was convicted at Northampton 22 March 1806 and was sentenced to death which was later commuted to transportation for life to Australia, transported on the ship "SYDNEY COVE" which arrived in Sydney June 1807. [Crime listed as "stealing plate and money] 1838 - After 31 years of marriage, Jane Pike nee Ferriday left the marital home at Prospect and her spouse John Pike advertised the fact in a Public Notice placed in the Sydney newspaper in 1838 and accused Jane of taking a large quantity of wearing apparel, most probably her own belongings! The public was warned against “harbouring or concealing” Jane, and were threatened with prosecution. (Source: “Australian” newspaper 8 May 1828, p3) ================================================== 1851 - "Accidental Death.-Yesterday an inquest was held by the Coroner, at the Dog and Duck Inn, George-street South, on view of the body of Jane Pike, whose death was occasioned by injuries received from a cab on the 31st ult. The driver, William Ogle, was in custody. It appeared from the evidence, that on the day in question the deceased was in a cart in George-street, when a cab, driven by the prisoner, came down the street at full speed. She tried to avoid it, but the splinter-bar came in contact with the wheel of her cart, throwing her out, and turning the vehicle over, part of it falling on her shoulder and chest. She was directly got from under the cart, and taken to Mr. Porter's, the chemist. She was then taken, at her own request, to the inn where the jury were then sitting, and where she was attended by Dr. Cuthill. She lingered in great agony until Monday evening, when she died. She was sixty-one years of age, and has left a large family, who reside at Prospect. It was proved to the satisfaction of the jury that the horses had suddenly taken fright at a noise made by two boys who were playing with some chips in the street, and they ran away. Several witnesses deposed to the excellent character of the driver as a careful man, and stated that on the evening in question he had been driving a wedding party during the greater part of the day, and had refused to take even one glass of wine, or leave his horses for a moment. Under the direction of the Coroner, the jury returned a verdict of accidental death, and Ogle was immediately discharged out of custody.-Herald, Aug. 19." (Source: "The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser", 23 August 1851, p3) ==================================================