Sarah Mushens

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Penny-Lyn Beale on 26th August 2021

Possible Death Record of Child; Jane Mushins ** Sydney, Australia, Anglican Parish Registers, St John's Parramatta. Year 1829 No; 271 Name; Jane Mushins ** Abode; Parramatta When Buried; 1829, 3 January Age; 2 years Ships Name; Grenada Quality or profession; Convicts Child By Whom the Ceremony was performed; John Vincent ****************

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Penny-Lyn Beale on 31st December 2020

Sister Jane Mushens arrived in the Colony; New South Wales, Australia, Convict Indents. Ship: Louisa - 1827. No; 23 Name; Jane Mushens. Age; 15. [1814] Reads, Single, Native County; Sunderland Trade; House girl Offence; Stealing money Trial; Durham - 2 March - 7 years - 2 previous Height; 4 ft. 8 in Complexion; Fair freckled Hair; Red Eyes; Dk. Brown Remarks; Well looking Additional Remarks; SISTER; her as Sarah Mushens per "Grenada" [1827] ----------------------

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Maureen Withey on 27th July 2019

Sarah Mushens, Monkwearmouth, singlewoman, capitally indicted for stealing from the dwellinghouse of Mr Fairley Downs of the same place, a quantity of wearing apparel, of the value 40s. Evidence clearly proved the robbery had been committed by prisoner; but it appearing that part of the stolen property was described in the indictment as leghorn hats, whereat they were leghorn bonnets, his Lordship directed the Jury to acquit her of capital part of the charge, and she was convicted of stealing articles in a dwelling-house under the value of 40s. To be transported 7 years. Jane Mushens, sister of the last prisoner, aged 15, was indicted for a burglary in the house of Isabella Christie, of Monkwearmouth Shore, on the night of the 25th December last. The father and mother of the prisoner were included in the indictment when it was preferred to the Grand Jury, but the bill was ignored with respect to them. Mr Ingham stated the case to the jury, but it appearing from his statement what the evidence would not specifically fix the offence upon the prisoner, Mr Justice said it would be wasting the time of the Court to proceed with the case, and his Lordship therefore directed acquittal. Ann Mushens, wife of Richard Mushens, of Monkwearmouth, and mother of the last two prisoners, aged 45, was indicted for stealing a shirt and a sheet, the property of Mrs Ann Davison. The evidence fully established the prisoner’s guilt, and the jury returned a verdict accordingly. The prisoner was sentenced to be transported for 7 years. Hearing her sentence pronounced, she dropped down in a fit, and in that state, was removed from the bar. Durham Chronicle, 4 Mar 1826 The following convicts, viz. Isabella Cragg, under sentence of transportation for life, and Eleanor Mead, Sarah Mushens, and Thomas Headland, each for seven years, were sent from the gaol here yesterday morning for the hulks, preparatory to their removal to New South Wales. Durham County Advertiser, 19 Aug 1826. Although acquitted when tried with her sister Sarah, Jane Mushens was also sentenced to be transported the following year in 1827. The Case of Jane Mushens: Jane Mushens (16) and Ellen Carr (20), of Bishopwearmouth, were charged with stealing 12s from John Booth, the 30th of November. From the evidence it appeared that the prosecutor Booth, lived at the poor house Bishopwearmouth, kept his money in a box the bed head. The box was locked, and the key placed under a dish. He missed the key, and suspicion falling on the prisoners, a constable was sent for, who saw Carr in the cell of the workhouse. She denied any knowledge of the theft. He found Mushens at her father’s lodgings and on some remonstrance of her father, she consented to show where 4s of the money was deposited. It was found in a straw bed in the workhouse, wrapped up in an old cap. The evidence against Carr having failed, his Lordship directed her acquittal. Verdict Guilty, against Mushens. Sentenced to 7 years transportation. The prisoner Mushens was tried at the last Spring assizes, and again in May, of last year, when she was sentenced to 3 months’ imprisonment. Durham Chronicle, 3 March 1827

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Denis Pember on 26th February 2017

Sainty & Johnson; 1828 Census of New South Wales: Page 282.... [Ref M3751] Mushens, Sarah, 25, GS, Grenada, 1827, 7 years, Factory, Parramatta. [Ref M3752] Mushens, Ann, 1m, BC.

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Denis Pember on 26th February 2017

Sarah initially had a relationship with the NSW Corps soldier William Hyman. It would seem that there may be 2 children to this realtionship, Ann 1828 and Jane 1831. Then in 1835, Sarah married James Inwood (Convict, 1817, "Morley"). The couple had at least three children; James 1835, John 1841 and Elizabeth 1844.

Her name has been variously spelt as Mushin, Musching, Mashon, and on her son's marriage certificate it was listed as Marchant.She married James Inwood (Convict via Morley 1817)in 1835