Ann Turner

Ann Turner, one of 110 convicts transported on the Northampton, December 1814

Name, Aliases & Gender

Name:	Ann Turner
Aliases:	Akers (alias)
Gender:	f

Birth, Occupation & Death

Date of Birth:	-
Occupation:	-
Date of Death:	16th March, 1815
Age:	-

Life Span

Female median life span was 58 years*

* Median life span based on contributions

Conviction & Transportation

Sentence Severity

Sentenced to 7 years

Crime:	Pickpocket
Convicted at:	Middlesex Gaol Delivery
Sentence term:	7 years
Ship:	Northampton
Departure date:	December, 1814
Arrival date:	18th June, 1815
Place of arrival	New South Wales
Passenger manifest	Travelled with 109 other convicts

References

Primary source:	Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 87, Class and Piece Number HO11/2, Page Number 191 (97)
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

Maureen Withey on 24th December, 2019 wrote:

ANNE TURNER, ELIZABETH COHEN, ANNE DIXON, Theft > pocketpicking, 21st June 1815.

695. ANNE TURNER , ELIZABETH COHEN , and ANNE DIXON , were indicted for feloniously stealing, on the 17th of May , three three-shilling tokens, and other silver amounting to fourteen shillings, the property of Martin Sholl , from his person .

MARTIN SHOLL . I am an attorney’s clerk . On the 17th of May, I was returning home, about twelve o’clock at night, and at the bottom of Stonecutter-street, on the West side of Fleet-market , I lost this money. There were four women standing at the bottom of Stonecutter-street, the three prisoners, and another. As I passed; Ann Turner put her arm round my waist, thrust her hand into my pocket, and took this money out, handing it to the fourth woman, who made off. Dixon and the other girl were not doing any thing. I seized hold of Turner immediately, and never let her go until the watchman came up, to whom I gave her in custody.

TURNER, GUILTY .

Transported for Seven Years .

COHEN, NOT GUILTY .

DIXON, NOT GUILTY .

London Jury, before Mr. Recorder.

Journal of Dr Joseph Arnold, Ship’s Surgeon aboard the Northampton
Dr. Joseph Arnold’s Log.

The following entry was as the ship left Rio de Janiero.
Thursday Mar 16. We got under weigh ; th [?] morning but only proceeded [?] about a mile [?] - The Orpheus came in last night & Lieut. Purchase [?] came to see me. The Achille [?] Orpheus tailed _____ morning [?] [363] & the Duncan bears two flags, a circumstance I have never heard of before, white at the fore & blue at the Mizen. The George Wallis came in wh marines with hr. G Barlton’s flag. Anne Turner a convict (as it appears in a fit of jealousy) threw herself overboard this [?] afternoon & immediately disappeared.

Convict Changes History

Maureen Withey on 24th December, 2019 made the following changes:

alias1: Akers (alias) (prev. Akers (Alias)), date of death: 16th March, 1815 (prev. 0000), gender: f, crime