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Personal Information
Crime
Transportation
Ann Martin was transported on the Lady Penrhyn, Scarborough And Alexander, departing 31st Dec 1786 and arriving 22nd Jan 1788 with 356 passengers.
Lady Penrhyn, Scarborough And AlexanderReferences
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Convict Notes
Family connections for Ann (Martin) are: MARTIN Ann (Martin), daughter of John (Martin) & Sara Ann (How), was born about 1769 & baptised on 22 12 1769 at Bethnal Green Middlesex, & became a servant. She was tried w/1other for stealing handkerchiefs, on 13 12 1786, from John (Tenant) of Rotherhithe London at St Margarets Hill Southwark Surrey Quarter Sessions on 9 1 1787, sentenced to 7years & arrived in NSW as a convict on 22 1 1788 after a voyage of 12months on First Fleet ship LADY PENRHYN. On 23 8 1788 she was charged with being drunk & sentenced to 1month making pegs. On 30 3 1789 she was charged with creating a disturbance & sentenced to 25lashes. She was sent to Norfolk Island on SUPPLY; she was returned to Port Jackson in September 1792 on ATLANTIC; no mention found in NI Refs. seen. She entered a relationship with John (Williams/Miller) in 1794 & produced a child. She was an emancipist by 1801. She died in 1806 age37 at Parramatta & was buried at St Johns CofE Parramatta. [Some of this information is taken from this Website] John (Williams/Miller) was born as William (Miller) & became a servant. He was tried as John (Williams alias Miller) with his cousin William (Williams/Crew) for highway robbery at Old Bailey, sentenced to death reprieved to Life, held at Middlesex Gaol Delivery & arrived in NSW as a convict with his cousin on 9 7 1791 after a voyage of 6months on Fleet ship ALBERMARLE/ADMIRAL BARRINGTON. In December 1794 he was granted 3,000acres (as was his partner in crime cousin William (Williams alias Crew)) on the flats at upper Port Jackson (Concord). He was Free by Servitude by 1798. [Some of this information is taken from this Website: as is the revelation that the highway robber William (Williams) may not have been sent to Australia after all] References: 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. Irene Schaffer & Thelma McKay 'Exiled Three Times Over! Profiles of Norfolk Islanders Exiled in Van Diemens Land 1807-1813' James Hugh Donohoe 'Norfolk Island 1788-1813-The People and Their Families' Reg Wright 'Forgotten Generation of Norfolk Island & Van Diemens Land'
New South Wales, St John’s Parramatta Burials. Name; Ann Martin Aged; No details Of the Parish of St John’s Parramatta was buried February 12th, 1806 By Samuel Marsden
Contribution from Michelle Drysdale: I have found out my first fleeter convict ancestor Ann Martin was sent to Norfolk Island in November 1789 & returned to Port Jackson by "Atlantic" supply ship in September 1792.
Ann Martin 1769-1806 daughter of John Martin and Sara Ann How Baptised: December 22, 1769 Bethnal Green, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom. Ann was tried at the Quarter Sessions of St Margaret's Hill Surrey on 9 Jan 1787. "Ann Martin and Amelia Levy "committed the 13th day of December 1786 by William Mason Esq. charged on the oath of John Tenant, Anthony Shearcroft, and Ann Brown, (an accomplice) with having feloniously taken and stolen, in the parish of Rotherhithe, some silk handkerchiefs the property of the said John Tenant." The sentence was transportation for seven years. 23 Aug. 1788 - Charged with being drunk on the 21st and ordered to make pegs for a month. 30 March 1789 - Created a night time disturbance and was sentenced to receive 25 lashes 11 Nov. 1789 - Sent to Norfolk Island on the 'Supply' Sep. 1792 - Returned to Port Jackson on the 'Atlantic' 1801 - Listed as an emancipist. Marriage to William Miller about 1794 (Age 25) It was said to be a De facto relationship. 1 daughter: Sarah Miller 1795–1841 1806: Ann died and was buried 12 Feb 1806 in the parish of St John, burial registered by Samuel Marsden. Daughter Sarah Miller born 4/9/1795, married James Cox C1812 when she was 16, the couple did not marry. It is believed that a child James was born from this union. Married Christian William Sternbeck July 12, 1813 (Age 17) Windsor, Hawkesbury, New South Wales, Australia Children: Hannah Sternbeck 1815-1886 George Sternbeck 1817-1896 William Sternbeck 1819-1906 Elizabeth Sternbeck 1823-1911 Sarah died September 10, 1841 (Age 46) St Albans, Hawkesbury, New South Wales, Australia.