Hannah Rowney

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iain Frazier on 14th November 2024

Family connections for Hannah (Rowney) are: ROWNEY Hannah (Flinger) was born in 1757 & baptised on 13 5 1757 age10d. She married firstley Patrick (Rowney) in about 1783. She was tried for stealing, on 22 7 1788, printed common pair books & a bible of St Catharine Cree at Old Bailey in 2trials on 10 9 1788, sentenced to 7years, held at London Gaol Delivery & arrived in NSW as a convict on 3 6 1790 after a voyage of 12months on LADY JULIANA-a ship with 228females who easily entertained the whole crew & also sailors at Teneriffe stopover; she was sent to Norfolk Island on SURPRISE arriving on 7 8 1790. She married secondly (2of3) Bartholomew (Reardon stated to be age67) on 5 11 1791 in group ceremony on Norfolk Island & produced 5children. She was recorded in February 1805 as sentence expired on stores on Norfolk Island. She & her husband (now deceased) had 7.5acres & she had a town block of 728' when she left Norfolk Island as part of the first evacuation on 9 11 1807 with her children (her husband & 1child died shortly before departurre) (for which volunteers apparantly had been called with appropriate compensation offerred & for which he may have tried to decline as some successful farmers were asked to stay) on HMS LADY NELSON to Derwent Tasmania, arriving on 28 11 1807.>>> [Some details taken from this Website] Bartholomew (Reardon) was born about 1750 & became a shoemaker. He was tried for receiving stolen property/stealing a hair trunk of Jasmes (Wallis) at Portsmouth/Castle Winchester Hampshire General Quarter Sessions on 15 5 1783 & sentenced to 7years in America. He arrived in Botany Bay NSW on 26 1 1788 after a voyage of 8nonths on First Fleet ship SCARBOROUGH. He arrived on Norfolk Island on SIRIUS on 13 3 1790 & became a servant to Capt. (Piper). He is recorded as age67 when he married in 1791. He is recorded in February 1805 as bell ringer & town cryer sentence expired Free by Servitude on Norfolk Island. He died on 1 5 1807 age57 on Norfolk Island; Smees records show age83 at death. [Some details taken from this Website] .. >>>Hannah (Flinger/Ronay) married thirdly William (Horne) on 22 5 1809 at St Davids CofE Hobart Town. She was granted 20acres at Queen Borough/Sandy Bay on 20 9 1813-which she exchanged for a barrel of rum. She died on 4 11 1829 age72 at Pittwater Tasmania. Willam (Horne) was tried at Warwick Assizes, sentenced to Life & arrived at Port Phillip (now Victoria) as a convict on 4 10 1803 after a voyage of 7+months on HMS CALCUTTA (an expedition that settled in Tasmania); he would have camped at what is now Sorrento/Sullivans Bay. He was taken to Derwent Van Diemens Land (Tasmania) on HMS CALCUTTA, arriving in 1804. In May 1803/4/5? he & others planned to take the new Whale boat and make their escape to New Zealand; a trial on 9th May failed to prove the intent & he was discharged. [Some details taken from this Website] REFERENCES Craig James Smee 'Births and Baptisms Marriages and Defacto Relationships Deaths and Burials New South Wales 1788-1830' ..a complete listing from church & other records in the early colony. Irene Schaffer & Thelma McKay 'Exiled Three Times Over! Profiles of Norfolk Islanders Exiled in Van Diemens Land 1807-1813' James Hugh Donohoe 'Norfolk Island 1788-1813-The People and Their Families' Reg Wright 'Forgotten Generation of Norfolk Island & Van Diemens Land'

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Phillip Kennedy on 24th July 2024

Baptism 13th May 1757 states she was 21 days old.

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C H on 22nd February 2024

Old Bailey Online HANNAH ROWNEY. Theft; grand larceny (to 1827), Theft; grand larceny (to 1827). 10th September 1788. Text type Trial account Defendants HANNAH ROWNEY Offences Theft > Grand larceny, Theft > Grand larceny Session Date 10th September 1788 Reference Number t17880910-61 Verdicts Guilty, Guilty > Theft under 1s Punishments Transportation 559. HANNAH ROWNEY was indicted for stealing, on the 22d of July , one printed book bound in leather, called a common prayer book, value 5 s. the property of the parishioners of St. Catharine Cree , in the custody of Caesar Danby Pigenit and another, Churchwardens. A second count, for stealing, on the 20th of July, one other printed book, entitled the Holy Bible, value 10 s. the property of the parishioners of the same parish, in the custody of the same persons. CAESAR DANBY PIGENIT sworn. I am one of the churchwardens of the parish; the prayer-book was used in the clerk's desk; the books for the use of the clergyman and clerk are found by the parish, out of the church rate; I believe my Lord, the sexton (who is a woman) has the care of them; they are locked up, or ought to be, by her; the sexton has been appointed a long time, and I believe they are generally appointed by the vestry. WILLIAM TOMLINSON sworn. On the 2d of July, the prisoner at the bar came to me to pledge the prayer-book for 5 s. and on the 21st of September she brought the large bible; she said her husband dealt in books, and that he was very ill; I had information that the books were stolen, and on the 1st of August, the prisoner came with another book, about nine o'clock in the evening; I went for a constable and took her. HENRY FACEY sworn. I know the prayer book by a private mark I made myself; I am the parish clerk; it was stole from my desk; I never saw the prisoner before she was taken up. ROBERT HAMBLETON sworn. I know the bible by reading continually in it, as being minister of the church. PRISONER's DEFENCE. My husband brought them to me, and gave me them to pawn; I have been married these five years; I have not seen my husband since I have been in custody; he ran away. GUILTY . Tried by the London Jury before Mr. RECORDER. 560. The said HANNAH, wife of Patrick Rowney , was again indicted for feloniously stealing on the 1st day of August last, in the parish church of St. Giles's in the fields , a folio-printed common prayer book, value 5 s. the property of the parishioners of the said parish, in the custody of Lawrence Partridge and James Goodwin , churchwardens. A second count, for stealing a printed book, value 5 s. the property of the said parishioners, in the church of the said churchwarden. (The case opened by Mr. Scho.) ELIZABETH FRENCH sworn. I am pew-opener at St. Giles's; I was in church the 31st of July, about twenty minutes before three; I staid rather better than half an hour; there was a poor woman to be churched; and I saw the clerk's book on his desk then; on Friday morning I went in about twenty minutes before eleven, and the clerk's book was missing; it was prayer day on a Friday; I came out and said the book was gone; and a person went and found it at the pawnbroker's. WILLIAM TOMLINSON sworn. I am a pawn-broker in Denmark-street; I recollect the book being pawned with me; I did not take it in; I saw the prisoner take it in her hand; I was in the shop; the boy took it in; this was a little before eleven on the 1st of August; I am sure to the person of the prisoner; she came again in the evening with another; I detained her, and sent for a constable; I have seen the prisoner before; my boy took in the book; he is here. DAVID LAMB sworn. I am servant to Mr. Tomlinson; I recollect being in the shop on the first of August, in the morning I saw the prisoner; she came and offered me a book to pledge; which I lent her half a crown on; it might be about eleven; the book is here; I am positive she is that woman that pledged it. Is that the book? - I cannot say; the book was tied up and laid by, and I had no further business with it. Tomlinson. This is the book; I wrote my name in it at the justices; I carried the book to the justices; I saw the book, and the woman with it in her hand; I am clear this is the book. JOHN TAYLOR sworn. The latter end of April last, or the beginning of May, I had a message sent from the vestry, to furnish the parish church with that book and another; I bound it; I am a stationer and bookbinder; I sold that book to the church at St. Giles's; here are some impressions of the names of the churchwardens; the book is not now in the same condition as when I delivered it, the label is torn off from the outside, which had the names of the churchwardens; this is the fellow to it; there were the names of Lawrence Partridge, and James Goodwin on it, which have been torn off. (The books handed to the Court and Jury.) Court. Did you sell but two books to the parish of St. Giles's? - At that time only two; I delivered them on the 16th of May to the vestry myself; I have the tools with which all these marks were made; I have no doubt but this is one of the books. JOSEPH HOLMAN sworn. I am parish clerk of St. Giles's; I remember the delivery of the two books; one was put in my desk, and the other in the minister's desk; (these are the books) the perfect one was taken from off the minister's desk to match with the other. The prisoner made the same defence as in her trial preceding this. GUILTY. 10 d. Transported for seven years . Tried by the first Middlesex Jury before Mr. RECORDER.

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Suzanne Jeffree on 15th September 2019

Sent to Norfolk Island. Married Bartholomew Reardon on Norfolk Island. Sent to Tasmania and given land but exchanged it for a barrel of rum.

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Jess on 24th April 2012

Married Bartholomew Reardon in 1791 and had 5 children with him. Bartholomew 1791-1849 (male) Frances 1794-1857 (female) Anne 1796 – 1807 (female) Daniel 1799 – 1801 (male) Steven 1801 – 1801 (male) Hannah died in Pittwater Tasmania, Australia on November 4th 1829