Jane Smith

Jane Smith, one of 119 convicts transported on the Wanstead, August 1813

Name, Aliases & Gender

Name:	Jane Smith
Aliases:	none
Gender:	f

Birth, Occupation & Death

Date of Birth:	1780
Occupation:	-
Date of Death:	2nd March, 1823
Age:	43 years

Life Span

Female median life span was 57 years*

* Median life span based on contributions

Conviction & Transportation

Sentence Severity

Sentenced to 7 years

Crime:	Deception
Convicted at:	London Gaol Delivery
Sentence term:	7 years
Ship:	Wanstead
Departure date:	August, 1813
Arrival date:	9th January, 1814
Place of arrival	New South Wales
Passenger manifest	Travelled with 118 other convicts

References

Primary source:	Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 87, Class and Piece Number HO11/2, Page Number 107 (55)
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 Project.

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Community Contributions

Denis Pember on 30th December, 2020 wrote:

Old Bailey Proceedings Online http://www.oldbaileyonline.org, April 1813, trial of ELIZABETH JONES JANE SMITH (t18130407-63).

ELIZABETH JONES, JANE SMITH, Deception > forgery, 7th April 1813.
407. ELIZABETH JONES and JANE SMITH were indicted, for that they, on the 25th of February , had in their custody and possession, a certain bank note for the payment of 1 l. they knowing it to be forged .

To this indictment the prisoners pleaded

GUILTY .

Transported for Fourteen Years .

First Middlesex jury, before Mr. Recorder.

Denis Pember on 30th December, 2020 wrote:

In the colony, Jane formed a relationship with Richard Cheers (Convict, Guardian/Surprize, 1790).
They married at St Phillips, Sydney, in 1815 (V1815188 7/1815).
Jane and Richard had 4 children. Richard had previously had three children in a long term relationship with Margaret Fogarty (Convict, Britannia, 1798).
Jane died in 1823, aged about 43 years.

Convict Changes History

Denis Pember on 30th December, 2020 made the following changes:

date of birth: 1780 (prev. 0000), date of death: 2nd March, 1823 (prev. 0000), gender: f, crime