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Voyage
Transportation
Ann Woodhead was transported on the Indefatigable And Minstrel, departing 9th May 1812 and arriving 19th Oct 1812 with 331 passengers.
The Indefatigable was built at Whitby, England. She was square-rigged three masted ship of 549 tons and had three decks; a length of 127 ft. and a beam of 31ft. 8ins. The Indefatigable sailed from England on 4th June 1812 in company with the Minstrel. The Indefatigable came direct to Hobart, VDL arriving there on 19 October 1812. One prisoner died on the voyage out. Having disembarked the prisoners in Hobart, the Indefatigable arrived in Port Jackson on 6 December 1812, departing there bound for England in January 1813. The Indefatigable returned to Australia with convicts in 1815 (see separate listing).
Indefatigable And Minstrel (generic)References
| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 87, Class and Piece Number HO11/2, Page Number 60 |
| 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 Pro |
| Original Source | Great Britain. Home Office |
| Compiled By | State Library of Queensland |
| Database Source | British convict transportation registers 1787-1867 database |
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Convict Notes
Ann had uttered a forged £1 note to John Milnes at Chorley and was found with another four in her possession. Ann was very ill whilst in jail at Lancaster 'due to the prisoners indisposition/dangerous state of health,' she was held over from the August 1810 assizes to the March 1811 assizes instead once recovered. In January 1815, Ann married convict tailor Peter Murphy (ship- Boyd) at St Philips, Sydney. They had been living together for at least a year. In 1816 she was mustered as 'wife to Peter Murphy'. In 1821 Ann found herself in the female factory. Ann gained her certificate of freedom in 1825. At this time she was now 40, and was described as being 5ft 4, a native of Yorkshire and servant with a sallow complexion, brown hair which was turning grey and brown eyes. Ann's husband Peter placed an advert to say she had absconded from their home in Castlereagh Street in September 1825 and he would not be responsible for any debts she incurred. After Ann left him it seems he either passed away or found a way to leave the colony as there are no further records for him and by 1826 she had been granted land called Mulbong/Mullbone Farm at Brisbane Water. In October 1827, Ann applied for permission to marry a ticket of leave convict sawyer, William Booker (ship- Ocean 3) and they married the following year in March 1828 at St Philips. They were recorded on the 1828 muster together as landholders/farmers at Brisbane Water, north of Sydney. Ann is believed to have died around 1834 as after this date the land was in William's name and by 1837 he had remarried. In 1838, William was legally granted this land and gave it its name, Booker's Bay which it still holds today. William died in 1850 and was buried in an unconsecrated cemetery on their land (today Bogan Road) which is potentially where Ann was also buried. The cemetery was converted to housing after 1920.
Ann Woodhead, two true hills having been found against her at the last Assizes, for uttering forged notes, but she being in a dangerous state of health, not to take her trial, ordered to remain in custody. Guilty of having forged Bank Notes her possession. Manchester Mercury, 2 April 1811. --------------------------------------------------- LANCASTER ASSIZES. Thursday se'nnight, the Hon Baron Thompson proceeded to pass sentence upon those prisoners who had been found guilty, as follows: Ann Woodhead, and Peter Smith, to be transported for fourteen years. Carlisle Journal 13 April 1811.