Jane Whiting

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iain Frazier on 13th May 2026

Family connections for Jane (Whiting) are: WHITING Jane (Whiting) was born about 1776 & became a sweep. She was tried w/1other at age about13 of robbing Mary (Phillips age8) of her clothes at Old Bailey on 14 11 1789, sentenced to death reprieved to Life (or 7years?), held at Middlesex Gaol Delivery & Newgate Gaol & arrived in NSW as a convict on 3 6 1790 after a voyage of 6months on Fleet ship LADY JULIANA-a ship with 228females who easily entertained the whole crew & also sailors at Teneriffe stopover. She was sent to Norfolk Island on 1/7 8 1790 on SURPRISE. She married firstly at age15 Thomas (Kidney his first relationship) in November 1791 in group ceremony on Norfolk Island & produced 2children.>>> Some details taken from this Website. Thomas (Kidner/y) became a stone cutter. He was tried for stealing linen at Bristol Gloucesteshire on 30 10 1783, sentenced to 7years, kept in gaols & hulks & arrived in NSW as a convict on 22 1 1788 after a journey of 12months on First Fleet ship ALEXANDER. He was taken to Norfolk Island on 2 3 1789 on SUPPLY. On 20 7 1789 he was charged for buying necessaries from a marine private-received 150lashes; at Port Jackson, possibly returned there for the trial. He is also said to have been transported to Norfolk Island on 11 11 1789 on SUPPLY. In 1792 he had 15acres & was working as a stone cutter & was recorded as being a stone cutter before 1794 (prior to arriving on NI). He was Free by Servitude by 1795. He married secondly ??? (???) on Norfolk Island. He was recorded as Free by Servitude settler/landowner on Norfolk Island in February 1805. [He is separately recorded as leaving Norfolk Island with his family to Port Jackson in October 1805 on HMS BUFFALO & to Derwent River Van Diemens Land as part of the first evacuation with his son on 9 11 1807 on HMS LADY NELSON, arriving on 29 11 1807] He owned 15acres when he went to Derwent Tasmania as part of the first evacuation with his daughter & new spouse? (for which volunteers apparantly had been called with appropriate compensation offerred & for which he may have tried to decline as some successful farmers were asked to stay) on 5/9 11 1807 on HMS LADY NELSON, arriving on 18/29 11 1807; he lived in Sandy Bay from 1810, when he was sent to Sydney as a witness in a trial. He was granted 30acres land at Queens Borough/Sandy Bay in 1813 & another 60acres at Sussex (Rokeby) in 1823 (maybe actually to his son). It also may be he, or his son, in 1822 who was tried for throwing stones at Thomas (Florence), at Kangaroo Point, at Hobart Magistrates Bench, fined & given 25lashes. He may have died in or left VDL. He produced 2known children in his lifetime. Thomas (Kidner/y) does not have an entry on this Website as yet-added by me. .. >>>Jane (Whiting) had a second relationship with Alexander (Dollis his first relationship), produced 4children & married him in 1805-not shown in Smees records-on Norfolk Island. She was Free by Servitude by 1805 & was recorded as convict on stores on Norfolk Island in February 1805. [She is recorded as leaving Norfolk Island with her family to Port Jackson in October 1805 on HMS BUFFALO & to Van Diemens Land after 1807. She is also recorded as leaving Norfolk Island with her children on 26 11 1808 (no ship recorded at this time) to Tasmania.] She was issued her Absolute Pardon on 9 6 1810. She was listed as living at Prospect (suburb south of Launceston?) & approved to recieve grant of land. She apparantly purchased 12.5 perches in Collins St Hobart on 1 6 1817; half of which she transferred to her son. She is recorded as a woman on stores at Hobart Town on 2 10 1818. She became housekeeper for George (Clerk) who gifted her 13 Collins St Hobart for her services. She died on 14 9 1826 age50 mother of 6children & was buried at St Davids CofE Hobart on 14 9 1826 as a poor woman. CCONVICT not foundLOOKED Alexander (Dollis) arrived in NSW as a convict on 9 7 1791 after a voyage of 6months on Fleet ship ADMIRAL BARRINGTON. He was sent to Norfolk Island, arriving on 26 8 1792. He had a first relationship with Jane (Elley her first relationship). He was Free by Servitude by 1798. He may have left Norfolk Island on 23 9 1803 with his family & returned to UK in 1803, perhaps taking his family?. He produced 5children, mostly girls, in his lifetime.] [Alexander (Dollis) does not have an entry on this Website as yet-added by me.] References: Craig James Smee 'Births and Baptisms Marriages and Defacto Relationships Deaths and Burials New South Wales 1788-1830' ..a complete listing from church & other records in the early colony. Irene Schaffer & Thelma McKay 'Exiled Three Times Over! Profiles of Norfolk Islanders Exiled in Van Diemens Land 1807-1813' James Hugh Donohoe 'Norfolk Island 1788-1813-The People and Their Families' Reg Wright 'Forgotten Generation of Norfolk Island & Van Diemens Land'

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Penny-Lyn Beale on 7th November 2024

Colonial Secretary's Papers, 1788-1856 Name Jane Whiting Event Date 12 Jun. 1811 Arrival Year 1790 Vessel Lady Juliana Event Description Of Prospect. On list of persons to receive grants of land in different parts of the Colony as soon as they can be measured Comments Per "Lady Juliana", 1790 Page 9 © 2006-2024 Ancestry

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Maureen Withey on 30th June 2022

Sunday 18th. This day the sessions at the Old Bailey, which began on Wednesday last, ended, when 18 convicts received sentence of death; ........ but of all the criminals who received lenience, those most to be regretted where two young girls, the eldest only fourteen, the youngest eleven, in whom the seeds of wickedness had taken such deep root, as to have rendered them callous to all sense of shame or feeling. These two artful hussies, Jane Whiting, and Mary Wade, seeing a child between six and seven years old in the street alone, easily decoyed it into a privy, under the Treasury wall, where they stripped and then left it to perish, with cold. Fortunately its cries attracted the notice of people passing by, who humanely conducted the child to its friends. Gentleman’s Magazine. 1789

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Gail Robyn Newman on 6th April 2022

Kidner, Jane (c. 1776–1826) Jane Whiting and Mary Wade were found guilty on 14 January 1789 at the Old Bailey, London, of robbing an 8-year-girl of her clothing. The girls' death sentences were commuted to life transportation. They were sent to Newgate Gaol before embarking for New South Wales in the Lady Juliana in May 1789, arriving at Port Jackson in June 1790. Whiting and Wade were sent to Norfolk Island on 1 August 1790 on the Surprize. Whiting married Thomas Kidner on 5 November 1791 in a mass wedding ceremony on the island. The couple, with their two children, left the island on HMS Buffalo for Port Jackson in October 1805. Thomas Kidner moved to Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania) in 1807. Jane and her daughter followed afterwards. It is not clear whether they resumed married life. Jane was granted an absolute pardon on 9 June 1810. In 1817 George Clark assigned a cottage at 13 Collins St, Hobart, to Jane for her services as a housekeeper. Jane was buried at St David's Cemetery, Hobart, on 14 September 1826; her age was given as 50. Her occupation was listed as 'poor woman'.

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Patrice Talbot on 31st May 2013

Jane Whiting was Mary Wade's friend when they robbed Mary Phillips (an 8 year old girl) of her clothes. They were both sentenced to death.