Summary
Personal Information
Voyage
Transportation
Ann Ross was transported on the Friendship, departing 31st May 1817 and arriving 14th Jan 1818 with 102 passengers.
This convict ship, being 274 tons and 75 feet long was one of the light weight ships in the fllet and was skippered by Master Francis Walton. Built in Scarborough in 1784, she carried 76 male and 21 female convicts. During her return voyage to England her crew came down with scurvy and with insufficient crew to man her, she was scuttled in the straights of Macassar. The survivors were transferred to the Alexander.
FriendshipReferences
| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 88, Class and Piece Number HO11/2, Page Number 351 (177) |
| 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 |
Claims
No one has claimed Ann Ross yet.
Convict Notes
Ann had stolen handkerchiefs at Manchester, belonging to George Oldham. She left Lancaster Castle with eight other women to be taken to Deptford to board the ship on the 27 May 1817. She was described the the ship's surgeon as "lazy, scrofulous and epileptic and a very bad temper". In July 1820, Ann married convict (E)manuel Gomes/Gomez/Coomes/Cooney (ship- Fortune) at St Johns Parramatta. Manuel was a Portuguese sailor who had received a life sentence for highway robbery whilst at Southampton. The couple were moved around various government depots and livestock stations near Bathurst but were described as notorious characters and corrupt and whose depraved practices meant they were wholly unsuitable for the positions they had been put in! With Emanuel in and out of prison in the later 1820s he escaped in early 1827 to 'go and see his woman' at Parramatta. However, it appears that Ann was soon to be sent to the Liverpool Asylum and it was here recorded phonetically as 'Ann Comay' she passed away 'insane' and was buried on 16 December 1827, recorded as aged 44 in St Lukes Cemetery (now the Liverpool Pioneers' Memorial Park).
Ann Ross b 1790 appears on 1823-25 muster as wife of Emanuel Gomez Gove Employ at Bathurst. Ann Ross had married Emanuel Coomes 1820 (obvious spelling error)
New South Wales, Australia, Colonial Secretary's Papers, 1788-1856 Main Series of Letters Received, 1788-1826 - names of convicts with their characters during the voyage from London to New South Wales on the transport ship Friendship. pp 6597 to 6605 Lazy scrophulous epileptic and very bad disposition.