Jane Moore

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Maureen Withey on 23rd April 2021

Source: Convict Indents. State Archives NSW; Series: NRS 12188; Item: [4/4009A]; Microfiche: 654 Name: Jane Moore Ship: Grenada 1825 Date: January 1825 Place: Sydney Cove Details: Jane Moore age 27. Milks, makes butter. Native place Suffolk. Tried London 17 February 1824. Sentenced to transportation for life. Very well on the voyage out. -------------------------------------------------- Source: NSW Courts Magistrates, Newcastle Police Court: 1823-1825, 1826-1827 (Ancestry) Name: Jane Moore Ship: Grenada 1825 Date: 1 June 1825 Place: Newcastle Details: Jane Moore per Grenada, in the service of William Ogilvie, charged with insolent and threatening language to her mistress and general misconduct. Mrs. Ogilvie states....I yesterday felt obliged to reprimand Jane Moore for inattention to her work, when she replied to me in such a disrespectful manner and made use of such threatening and violent language that I do not consider my self or children safe. Mr. Ogilvie being absent at his farm, whilst she remains under the same roof. The prisoner denies having made use of violent or threatening language but admits having said that the cells of Newgate were Paradise in comparison to her present service. Jane Moore sentenced to the Factory at Parramatta for six months after which period to be returned to Mr. Ogilvies service should he require it.

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Maureen Withey on 23rd February 2020

Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 23 February 2020), February 1824, trial of JANE MOORE (t18240218-6). JANE MOORE, Theft > theft from a specified place, 18th February 1824. 439. JANE MOORE was indicted for stealing, on the 29th of January , at St. Andrew, Undershaft , three silver waiters, value 15 l.; a silver bread basket, value 7 l.; thirty-six table spoons, value 36 l.; thirty-six forks, value 18 l.; a silver lamp, value 5 l.; a tea kettle, value 6 l.; two pairs of snuffers, value 3 l.; two snuffer stands, value 2 l.; a fish slice, value 1 l., and two gravy spoons, value 3 l., the goods of Matthew Kirwan , to whom she was servant , in his dwelling-house . MR. ADOLPHUS conducted the prosecution. SARAH KING . In January last I was in the service of Matthew Kirwen , of Richard's-court, Lime-street ; the prisoner was the house-maid , and had been there a month. On the 29th of January, master and his family went to the play, and about seven, or a quarter past, I went up stairs - some of the clerks were in the counting-house at the time. There are leads to the house, which lead from our bed-room into Mr. Proctor's garden, in Billiter-square. On getting up stairs I found the lead doors both open - I went to shut them; I was obliged to go out on the leads to shut them; I staid outside for a few minutes, as the bells were ringing, it being the King's accession. I turned my eye round, and saw a candle standing on maser's bed-room table, below where I stood, and saw the prisoner very busy, passing too and fro in the room, but could not see what she was doing, The plate was kept in a closet in that room. She came up stairs to our bedroom to me, and said, "Is that you?" I said, Yes - she took something off her own bed, and immediately went down into master's bed-room again; I then went down to see what she was doing - she came out, and pulled the door too to prevent my going in, and I did not go in, but came down into the kitchen, and felt very uneasy; I did not know what to do. I went up stairs, put on my bonnet and shawl, and went out to watch if anything was taken out; I shut the street door as I went out, and the middle door also, and on getting into the street, I saw a man standing with his back against the India House, looking up the court. I did not know what to do, so I went down the street - the man followed me quickly down the street. I returned to the house, and found both the doors wide open; the prisoner came out of the parlour into the passage. I asked what she did with both the doors open, saying I thought Mr. Kriwen would be angry if he knew it - she said, "I expect a friend;" I said, "Let him ring the bell;" she shut the parlour door; I passed her, and went into the parlour, and found a bundle standing on a chair there; she stood before the chair sometime, and seemed confused. I said I thought all was not right, and that she had been there a very short time; she said, "Then you are a very suspicious woman;" I then caught sight of the bundle, and called in Mr. Barr. the clerk - he came - I said something induced me to think all was not right, and at that instant she left the parlour. I then saw what the bundle was; there was a silver bread basket in it, and the silver which is now in it - Barr immediately locked it up. I did not examine it till master returned. I did not see the prisoner afterwards till she was taken. I am the cook. The plate was usually kept in a closet adjoining the bed-room. HENRY BARR . I am clerk to Mr. Kirwen; his house is in the parish of St. Andrew Undershaft, Aldgate Ward. King called me about five minutes before eight o'clock; I went into the parlour, and the prisoner went up stairs. King was extremely agitated, and pointed to a bundle, which I examined; it contained plate - I immediately locked it up in the counting-house. A bread basket and other plate was in it; but I cannot say what; I kept it till about twelve o'clock, when Mr. and Mrs. Kirwen came home; I took it up to Mr. Kirwen myself. I went up stairs to endeavour to find the prisoner, and found herwalking backwards and forwards on the leads, in a very distracted manner; I was afraid she would make away with herself, and persuaded her to come in and stay in the room till Mr. Kirwan came home. She said nothing to me. The bundle contained various articles of plate, a bread basket, silver tray, and other things. OWEN EDMUNDS . I live next door to Mr. Kirwan. The clerk came to me; I went to the house, and found the prisoner on the leads in great agitation; and after she came in, she desired me to go on the leads with her, to assist her to bring in a basket off the leads, but having the gout, I was not able - she fetched it in herself, and said it was plate. I immediately locked it up, without opening it, and it was not taken out until Mr. Kirwan came home - Lloyd carried it in to Mr. Kirwan. I asked her what was in the basket; she said it was plate, and that she put it there in her confusion, to hide it, and that there was a person at the door, who had induced her to do it, through his poverty - that he was her husband. The basket was on the outside of the leads, fastened round to the railing; it was dark; I could not see it, but I felt it hanging to the railing. WILLIAM PLAISTOWE . I am officer of the Ward. Mr. Kirwan sent for me next morning, and I took an inventory of the plate; it consisted of the articles stated in the indictment. EDWARD LLOYD . I am servant to Mr. Kirwan. All this plate was in the chest to the best of my knowledge - I had put it there a fortnight before. I have the care of the plate. I saw the bundle when master returned; there was plate in it, but I did not see it opened. The waiters, bread basket, and all the plate are his property. I brought the basket out of the room myself, but did not see it opened. I took it into the parlour for master to look at, and next day saw all the plate in the house; it is master's - I am his butler. Master kept the key of the plate. HENRY BARR re-examined. I saw the waiters in the bundle after Mr. Kirwan came home, on the same night, and other plate; but cannot say what. I only saw that there was plate in the bundle, and immediately locked it up. Mrs. Kirwan pulled it aside, and I saw that it was plate in it, but cannot say what articles. I know it to be Mr. Kirwan's; it has his mark on it. OWEN EDMONDS . The basket was not opened in my presence. GUILTY - DEATH . Aged 26. Recommended to Mercy by the prosecutor . ------------------------------------------------ Absconded. 1. Moore Jane, Grenada, 33, Dairywoman, Suffolk, 5 feet 3¼ , hazle eyes, dark brown hair, fair comp. from J. Norton, Esq. Sydney Gazette, 20 Oct 1829