Hannah Stanley

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Maureen Withey on 10th March 2024

The following Convicts were last week removed from Maidstone Gaol, to embarked Woolwich for New South Wales: Mary Davis, Sarah Watkins, Mary Thompson, Jane Evans, Hannah Stanley. Hannah Porter, Frances Hudson. Kentish Gazette, 20 Feb 1810.

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Maureen Withey on 8th August 2021

1828 Census Index. (p.243) Daniel Clark, age 42, C.F. 1809. Overseer, Drivers Fields, S. Forest district. Has 14 acres of land, all of which is cleared land. Hannah Clark, age 40, T.L. Canada 1810, Life, protestant. Mary A. , age 14, Born in colony; Hannah, age 12; Elizabeth, age 7; Lucy, age 3; Robert, age 12; John, age 9; William age 4;

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Iris Dunne on 16th October 2018

Possible date of birth from Ancestry.com trees 13 June 1788; cannot find proof of day and month. Ticket of Leave No.27/563 dated 4th September 1827, Native Place: Deptford, Trade: Servant, Date of Trial 27th march 1809, Sentence: Life, Year of Birth 1788, In lieu of No.146/360 dated 28th February 1811 returned mutilated and torn up, Wife of Dan'l Clarke of Windsor. https://www.records.nsw.gov.au/searchhits_nocopy?id=65&Surname=Stanley&Firstname=hannah&Alias=&Vessel=Canada&Year=&RecordType=&Citation=&Remarks=

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Gerelle Shooter on 15th October 2018

Hannah Stanley is my 3 X great grandmother, my family have been researching her for many years sending people to her place of birth for a record of her birth -. There is none due to a firecwe wrer told. If you can print her date of birth could you please show her where you got that. That date you have as her birth date is not correct and should be removed.

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Phil Hands on 27th September 2017

Tried and convicted at the Kent Assizes with her friend Hannah Porter in March 1808 for the theft of a goose feather bed, two pair sheets, two blankets, three counterpanes, two gowns, four petticoats, seven pairs cotton stockings and six handkerchiefs, both women were sentenced to death by hanging (Hannah Stanley was 18 years old). Both sentences were later commuted to transportation for life. Left England on 23 March 1810. Ship:- the 'Canada' sailed with 122 female convicts on board of which 1 died during the voyage. Arrived on 8th September 1810. On the journey out Hannah became pregnant to one of the Guards, John Dixon. From the dates this may have even happened before the ship sailed, hence there is a small possibility that she was pregnant even before she arrived on the ship. When they arrived in Port Jackson they split up. Hannah gave birth to a daughter, Charlotte, in December 1810. She was given some special treatment as she had a small child. She received a Ticket of Leave in 1811. Owing to her Life Sentence, however, she was not a free woman; she would still need to obtain permission to marry. The ticket permitted her to move around in the district in which it was stated she could. It is believed she returned the ticket to the authorities, mutilated and torn. Hannah was given permission to marry on 5th April at Windsor, and on 2nd May 1814 she married free settler Daniel Clarke, he had arrived on the 'Spring Grove' in 1809, they had 11 children between 1814-1836. Hannah died on 26th December 1854 at Sutton Forest, N.S.W. age 66 and was buried on 28th December 1854 at Sutton Forest. Daniel died on 18th January 1859 at Belanglo N.S.W. age 83.