Ann Williams

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C H on 16th June 2025

Name: Williams, Ann Record Type: Convicts Departure date: 10 Jun 1823 Departure port: London Ship: Mary (1) Voyage number: 29 Index number: 76180 Record ID: NAME_INDEXES:1446327 https://libraries.tas.gov.au/Record/NamesIndex/1446327

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Penny-Lyn Beale on 21st November 2024

1826 - Marriages Name: Williams, Ann [Convict] of this Parish. Spinster Spouse: Turner, William [Convict] of this Parish. Bachelor Date of marriage: 11 Jul 1826 Witness; Henry Webb & W Worthy. Registered: Hobart 1830-Hobart Town No; 741. Hobart Town Hospital - 28 June. Aged; 25 years. Ship; Mary Accidently burnt to death Friends of the Orphan School Orphan Number: 5406 Orphan: Ann TURNER Mother: WILLIAMS, Ann Father: TURNER, William Mother's ship: Mary 3 Father's ship: Age when admitted: Date admitted: 3 Mar 1831 Date discharged: Institution(s): NOT admitted to the Orphan School Discharged to: Remarks: mother burned, then died - father, a shoemaker of Elizabeth St, in prison - child cared for by Eleanor Brien References: SWD24p304, Hobart Town Courier 1 May 1830 Orphan Number: 5408 Orphan: Margaret TURNER Mother: WILLIAMS, Ann Father: TURNER, William Mother's ship: Mary 3 Father's ship: Age when admitted: 2yrs Date admitted: 4 Feb 1831 Date discharged: 1 Jul 1845 Institution(s): Queens Orphan School Discharged to: Thomas Smith Remarks: mother burned then died - father a shoemaker of Elizabeth St, in prison References: SWD24p304, 28, CSO5/86/1885, Hobart Town Courier 1 May 1830 https://www.orphanschool.org.au/showorphan.php?orphan_ID=5406

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Maureen Withey on 5th February 2023

Tasmanian Records. Conduct Record. https://stors.tas.gov.au/CON40-1-9P245 45. Ann Williams, Old Bailey, Jan 1823, Life. See record for details.

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Tony Beale on 13th December 2020

Old Bailey Online Before Lord Chief Baron Richards . 189. ANN WILLIAMS was indicted for stealing on the 3d of December , at St. George, Bloomsbury, a shift, value 2 s.; a petticoat, value 1 s.; an apron, value 6 d.; four sovereigns,; three crown-pieces; three shillings, and a sixpence, the property of John Harrison , in his dwelling-house . PATIENCE HARRISON . I am the wife of John Harrison , we live in the Colonade, in the parish of St. George's Bloomsbury , the prisoner came to my house on the 13th of November, and told me she was distressed, and I took her in to lodge out of charity, she slept with my children, and continued with me until the 3d. of December, when she had appointed to go with me to a relation of hers to get a box, in which she had clothes, we were to go about three or four o'clock in the afternoon; I had occasion to go out about eleven o'clock in the morning, and left her sitting at the breakfast table; I returned in twenty minutes, and saw she was confused; she said she had been studying and thinking about my brother, who she had told me was her sweetheart, and at dinner time my husband asked why she did not eat as usual; she said nothing. I was getting ready to go with her, and when I was half naked, she said she wanted a pair of boot-laces, and then a stay-lace; I said; I had plenty of both, she then said she wanted to buy a pair of gloves - I said she had used mine, and could use them again - she said, she had had enough of me, and would borrow no more. I said, "Ann, I am afraid, there is some scheme in it" - she said, "No there is not, you know where to find me;" and immediately went out; I expected she was going to Burton-crescent, where we had appointed to go. I got ready and went, but she was not there - I never saw her again. Next morning when I went to breakfast, I found my tea-caddy wrenched open by a fork, and four sovereigns; three crown-pieces; three shillings and sixpence gone, which I had seen safe at eleven o'clock the day before, I missed nothing else that day, being too much confused to look about, on the 5th I missed a petticoat, apron, and a new shift; she left on Tuesday, and on Saturday week, I saw her at Marlborough-street I saw her stripped and my shift found on her back, with my name on it. I claimed it, and said I have been a mother and a friend to you, and why did you distress a poor person like me? I neither threatened or promised her, she cried and said, "Mrs. Harrison, I am very sorry, but I have done it, and do not know what possessed me to do it;" she said, she opened the tea-caddy with a fork, and that the duplicate of my apron and petticoat, were at the place where the officers took her, she acknowledged taking the money. SAMUEL WISE . I am an apprentice to John Neat , pawn-broker. A petticoat and an apron were pawned at our house, in the name of Mary Williams , on the 30th of November; I did not take them in. I produce them. CHARLES COUSINS . I am an officer. I took the prisoner into custody on Saturday, she was searched in the private room, the woman who searched her, told me in her presence, that she had found the shift on her; when I took her, she cried and said voluntarily, that she took the sovereigns and the silver, and after she was examined, Mrs. Harrison said in her presence, that she had told where the duplicate was to be found, I went to her lodging and found a duplicate of the petticoat and apron in her pocket. (Property produced and sworn to.) Prisoner to PATIENCE HARRISON . Q. Did you not say you would not appear against me if I confessed where the petticoat and apron were - A. I did not; she said, "Pray do not hang me;" I said, "I shall not hang you, pray tell me where my things are," and she told me. Prisoner. I leave it to the mercy of the Court. GUILTY - DEATH . Aged 21.