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Transportation
Hannah Mayall 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.
Janus (generic)References
| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 88, Class and Piece Number HO11/3, Page Number 241 (122) |
| 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
Hannah (more often known as Ann, and probably Rosannah) uttered ten forged £1 notes to Hannah Hemsworth at Manchester. The death sentence she initially received was commuted to 14 years transportation (also sometimes recorded as life). Very soon after arrival, Hannah was transferred to Hobart, Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania) onboard the Princess Charlotte where she was noted as a servant. Almost immediately after arrival she absconded from Mr Jennet who she had been assigned to and was held in solitary confinement on bread and water for a week. She repeated this the following year, being away for three days and was jailed for two weeks, and had to sit in the stocks four times. Only three months after in August 1821, the same crime and punishment was repeated. In 1823 she was a servant to G. Richards. In June 1825, Hannah was absent from the muster and was reprimanded and also that year was fined for missing church. By 1832 Hannah was recorded as married to Jacob Mayall (ship- Sir William Bensley). What is missing is that if Hannah and Jacob were already a married couple who reunited in Van Diemen's Land or by coincidence they both had the same uncommon surname. There is a marriage in 1815 of a Roseannah Edwards to a Jacob Mayell on the outskirts of Birmingham, England (Jacob was tried nearby in 1816) so it is possible. In 1827 Jacob had received an additional 14 year sentence for receiving a huge amounted of stolen money but doesn't appear to long have remained away from Launceston and by 1835 had a ticket of leave In August 1836, Jacob died at Lauceston and in 1839, Hannah, now a widow, remarried Henry Barrett (also a widower) (ship- probably Fortune) at St Johns Launceston. By February 1840, Henry was advertising in the newspapers that Hannah (better known as Anne Maile) had already run up several debts and that she should not be given credit. After this, they both disappear for many years, until the death of Henry in 1870 at Georgetown, aged 94 and in 1885, Rose Ann Barrett, aged 95 at Beaconsfield from senility (dementia). The death register was signed by Henry's daughter from his earlier marriage and newspaper accounts refer to Hannah (actually it was her husband Henry) being an early settler of York Town. She was buried at York Town cemetery, along with Henry and his previous wife Mary. This final mention of her full name, Rose Ann lends itself to the theory she had already been married upon transportation, to Jacob. Whilst she probably wasn't quite as old as 95 at her death, she was the last surviving Lancastrian female convict.
1818 - 21 March 1818. Trial. Offence; Deposing of & putting away Forged Bank Notes. Sentence; Death 1823 - Australia Convict Musters, Tasmania. Assigned to G. Richards. 1833 - Australia Convict Musters, Tasmania. No; 19. Married to Jacob Mayall. 1832 - Australia Convict Musters, Tasmania. No; 19. Married to Jacob Mayall. 1835 - Australia Convict Musters, Tasmania. No; 19. Assigned to her Husband. 1836 - Death of Husband Jacob Mayol. ** Burial; 2 August 1836. Abode; Launceston
New South Wales, Australia, Colonial Secretary’s Papers, 1788-1856 Copies of Letters Sent Within The Colony, 1814-1827 18/5/1820 On a list of 43 convicts transferred per ship Princess charlotte to VDL Hobart