Ellen Hickey

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Maureen Withey on 25th June 2020

https://stors.tas.gov.au/CON13-1-1$init=CON13-1-1p36 List of sixty female convicts embarked on board Kangaroo to land at the Derwent in Van Diemen’s Land, and their indents from the Catherine Convict ship. Sydney 24 May 1814. No 57. Ellen Hickey, age not recorded, tried City of Cork, April 1813, 7 years. -------------------------------------------------- Tasmanian Convict Record- https://stors.tas.gov.au/CON40-1-5$init=CON40-1-5p17 42. Elinor Hickey. Catharine 1814, Kangaroo 1816. Tried at Cork, 1813, 7 years. No further information on record. ------------------------------------------------------ https://stors.tas.gov.au/RGD36-1-1p34j2k Marriage 1814. William Widdowson, age 28, convict per Earl Spencer, and Eleanor Hickey, 24, convict per Catherine, were married by Banns 26 December 1814.

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D Wong on 19th February 2020

5/4/1813 Saunders's News-Letter Dublin, Republic of Ireland: Elizabeth Hickey, an unfortunate woman of the town, for stealing a gold watch from a gentleman's pocket.___Guilty__to be transported for the term of seven years. Daughter of Daniel Hickey and Eliza (Keefe) Hickey. 1/6/1814: Transferred to VDL per 'Kangaroo'. 26/12/1814: Married William Widdowson/Widdeson (Earl Spencer 1813 to NSW then transferred to VDL per 'Kangaroo' date states 1816, but married 1814??) No children listed. William Widdowson died 31/3/1837, Hobart, Tasmania. 1819: Married or had a 'Common Law Marriage' to Mount Rose (Montrose) Johnson (Indefatigable 1812). Children: William Hickey Johnson Mary Johnson George Michael Johnson Thomas Johnson Ellen Johnson Samson Johnson 30/3/1860: Ellen died in Glenorchy, Tasmania, of 'apoplexy' on the Banks of the Derwent River. Listed as a charcoal burner's wife. An inquisition indented taken for our Sovereign Lady the Queen at the house of William Mason known by the sign of the Berriedale Inn at Glenorchy in the County of Buckingham within the Island of Tasmania this thirty first day of March in the twenty third year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lady Victoria by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom and Great Britain and Ireland Queen Defender of the Faith before me Algernon Burdett Jones Esquire one of the Coroners of our said Lady the Queen for the said Island and its Dependencies. On view of the Body of Ellen Hickey commonly known as Ellen Johnson then and there lying dead upon the Oaths of Francis John Weale, Joseph Reason, John Norris, John Overell, Samuel Smith, James Young and Frederick Longley good and lawful men of the said Island duly chosen and who being then and there duly sworn and charged to enquire for our said Lady the Queen when where how and after what manner the said Ellen Hickey commonly known as Ellen Johnson came to her death on the thirtieth day of March in the year aforesaid on the bank of the river Derwent situate at Glenorchy aforesaid in the Island aforesaid was found dead and that the said Ellen Hickey commonly called Johnson had no marks of violence appearing on her body but by the visitation of God in a natural way. To wit of apoplexy did die but how or by what means the said Ellen Hickey commonly known as Ellen Johnson came on the banks of the river Derwent aforesaid at Glenorchy aforesaid in the Island aforesaid no evidence thereof doth appear to the said jurors.