Ann Orton

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D Wong on 4th September 2016

23/5/1851 Coventry Standard West Midlands, England: NUNEATON PETTY SESSIONS, May 17 Ann Orton, a strolling vagrant, was charged with having, the preceding evening, stolen a shirt, value 55., the property of George Wall. 2/7/1851: The Coventry Herald: ANN ORTON, alias INGLEBY, aged 35, committed 20th May, charged with having, at Allesley, stolen a shirt, value 5s, the property of George Watts. It appeared that the prisoner met a child on the Allesley road, who had some clothes in a basket to take home, and took advantage of an opportunity of stealing the property. On being convicted, the prisoner, a big, hardy-looking Irishwoman, begged for mercy, for the sake of her six "darling children". It was shown, however, immediately that she had been apprehended in Birmingham for abandoning her children at Wolverhampton, and while in custody for this offence, she was charged with felony, and upon that charge convicted and sentenced to nine months imprisonment - The present, therefore, being a second conviction, she was now sentenced to seven years transportation. Ann Orton was 33 years old on arrival. Ann was born at Northampton, (daughter of John Orton) she was 5'5" tall, flaxen hair, dark eyes, 2 blue dots back of right hand, reads. Widowed, 6 children. Sister: Margaret. Brother: James. Anne said her children's father was Samuel Hingley, and the children were named Hingley. By 1852 she was a widow, her surname was then Orton. (A Samuel Hingley who was a collier in 1845 and was killed in a workplace explosion, reported in many papers of the time). She then had a son, John, born as John Orton not Hingley. Eldest child Samuel worked as a collier in Dudley. William Hingley and Elizabeth Hingley in the Dudley Workhouse, under name Hinsley. James Hingley aged four in Tipton Workhouse. Children on board: Dennis 9 years, Caroline 7 years, James 5 years, John 2 years (The name appears to be an error. Ann's daughter was known as Catherine from her arrival in Australia in 1852 till her death in 1911.) On arrival in Hobart Town, Anne's children Denis, Catherine and James were placed in the Queen's Orphanage under the surname Hingley. Anne and John were probably taken to Dynnyrne to the convict nursery and later John joined his siblings in the orphanage under the name John Orton. 13/07/1852 HC/ Assigned to Frederick Cook, Elizabeth St 23/10/1852 Cook/ Drunk 3 Months hard labour Approved 05/11/1852 23/10/1852 HC 05.01/1853 Assigned to James Corrie, Melville St 24/02/1853 Absconded 28/02/1853 Corrie/ Absent without leave 2 months hard labour 28/02/1853 HC 16/03/1853 Not to enter service in the District of Hobart Town 20/04/1853 Assigned to J Wilcock, Clarence Plains 31/05/1853 Application for permission to marry Anne Orton Sir Robert Seppings Thomas Davis free 01/05/1853 Refused 04/05/1854 Delivered of an illegitimate child at Hobart. 4th May 1854 Mary Ann Female father: blank Mother: Ann Orton Condition: Female Convict's Child The baby died aged 2 months of diarrhoea. No. 1367 June 30th 1854 Mary Ann Orton female, 2mths female convict's child diarrhoea 28/08/1855 Apply in 3 months for a ticket of leave 29/08/1855 Insolence and disobedience of orders, 4 months hard labour 28/10/1856 Not Recommended for a Ticket of Leave 02/02/1857 HC 04/01/1857 Assigned to W Ward, ....(?) Point, South Huon 6/01/1857 Ward/Drunk and disobedient of orders, 6 months hard labour 4/04(?)/1857 Assigned to Watkins ....(?) 22/09/1857 Absconded .....(?) 29/09/1857 In September 1858, Catherine and James were released from the orphanage to their mother, the listing reads Discharged to: mother, now free. 1/9/1858: Possibly married William Barclay (possibly per Pyramus) If Ann Orton married William Barclay, then she died in May 1881 at the Newtown Charitable Institute, a pauper. Her birthplace is listed as Ireland. Ann Barclay was buried at Cornelian Bay Cemetery, in a pauper's grave.