Ann Simons

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C H on 16th February 2024

Old Bailey Online ANN SIMONS. ELIZABETH CLARKE. Theft; shoplifting. 1st July 1807. Text type Trial account Defendants ANN SIMONS, ELIZABETH CLARKE Offences Theft > Shoplifting Session Date 1st July 1807 Reference Number t18070701-64 Verdicts Guilty > Lesser offence Punishments Transportation 487. ANN SIMONS , and ELIZABETH CLARKE , were indicted for feloniously stealing on the 2nd of June , fourteen yards of printed cotton, value 14 s. the property of Richard Samuel , privately in his shop . RICHARD SAMUEL . I live at No. 49, New Compton-street, St. Giles' , I am a linen draper . I was not in the shop at the time. SARAH SAMUEL . I am the wife of the last witness. On the 2nd of June, between three and four o'clock in the afternoon, the two prisoners came to buy an apron; I shewed them several and none would suit them; I pulled down a piece of print to shew them, and while I was shewing them the print, one of them said they did not see a print they should like; they did not stop long after that; soon after they were gone, I missed a piece of print that I had shewed them. Q. Who was in the shop at the time. - A. No one but myself. When my husband came home, I told him; that might be an hour and a half after. The printed cotton was found at the pawnbroker's. SAMUEL MORRIS . I am a pawnbroker, I live at Long-acre. On the 2nd of June last, seven yards of cotton was pledged by a woman of the name of Ann Simons . I cannot swear to either of the prisoners. - . I live with Mr. Lane, pawnbroker, Holborn. On the 7th of June, seven yards of cotton was pledged in the name of Mary Clark . Q. Who did you take it of. - A. I do not know. I have seen the prisoners, I cannot say when. WILLIAM CLEMENTS . I searched the prisoner's apartments. In taking up the boards of the flooring, I found the duplicate of the property. (The property produced and identified.) Simon's Defence. I own to that piece of cotton, and no more. Clark's Defence. I was never inside of the shop, I never saw the cotton. SIMONS, GUILTY, aged 17. CLARK, GUILTY, aged 17. Of stealing only . Transported for Seven Years . Second Middlesex jury, before Mr. Recorder.

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Mike Harvey on 24th March 2016

Proceedings of the Old Bailey Ref: t18070701-64

Muster of N.S.W. 1811:No. 5291 Convict Ann Simmons " " 1814:No. 6637 Ann Simmons (Free) off stores.Single " " 1822:No. A19194 Simons FBS Speke 7years Wife of A.Callaghan, Windsor. " " 1822:No. A19195 Simons Child of Windsor " " 1822:No. A19196 Simons Child of Windsor These two children would be James and Mary Ann Arrived Port Macquarie abt. Dec 1823 Died 14 July 1824. Believed to be the only woman buried at Allman Hill Cemetery, Port Macquarie. The following was extracted from 'The Winding Sheet'Published by Port Macquarie Historical Society.ISBN 0 986696 0 0ANN CALLAGHANJULY 1824"Tried as Ann Simons at Middlesex Gaol Delivery 1 July 1807 and sentenced totransportation for seven years arriving on the Speke on 15 November 1808. She "married" convict Andrew Callaghan who had arrived on the Three Bees in 1814. They had three children-, James 1814, Mary Ann 1820 and John 1823.All registered at Pitt Town. Seven months after her arrival in Port Macquarie she died. In the 1822 Muster she was Free by Servitude. It is believed Ann Callaghan is the only woman buried on Allman Hill." The above entry has a factual error... James was born in 1817.