Name: | Fanny Walker |
Aliases: | Walker, Frances (alias), Finlay, Frances (alias) |
Gender: | f |
Date of Birth: | 1808 |
Occupation: | Laundress |
Date of Death: | - |
Age: | - |
Life Span
Female median life span was 61 years*
* Median life span based on contributions
Sentence Severity
Sentenced to 7 years
Crime: | Stealing |
Convicted at: | York, Northallerton Quarter Sessions |
Sentence term: | 7 years |
Ship: | Aurora |
Departure date: | 22nd April, 1851 |
Arrival date: | 10th August, 1851 |
Place of arrival | Van Diemen's Land |
Passenger manifest | Travelled with 233 other convicts |
Primary source: | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 92, Class and Piece Number HO11/17, Page Number 137 (71) |
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. |
D Wong on 11th March, 2016 wrote:
Fanny Walker was born in South Shields and was was 43 years old on arrival in VDL she was transported for ‘stealing a quilt and blankets’.
Fanny was 5’2” tall, brown hair, hazel eyes, sallow complexion, reads, a widow with 3 children, protestant.
30/5/1854: TOL
28/10/1856: Permission to marry Thomas Smith (free) - no registration found.
4/6/1858: Certificate.
yhjryjrf on 11th March, 2016 made the following changes:
alias1: Walker, Frances (alias) (prev. Walker, Frances (Alias)), alias2: Finlay, Frances (alias) (prev. Finlay, Frances (Alias)), gender: m, crime
D Wong on 11th March, 2016 made the following changes:
date of birth: 1808 (prev. 0000), gender: f (prev. m), occupation, crime
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