Hannah (convict) Alderson

  General Notes:

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HANNAH ALDERSON. Hannah was a young lady employed as a servant in the household of William Johnson, a schoolmaster in Yorkshire, when the Crown Calender for the Yorkshire Summer Assizes carried the following listing:

9. (Aged 26) HANNAH ALDERSON, late of Gilmamby, in the North riding, single woman committed by the Court of General Quarter Sessions, holden at Northallerton for the said riding, the 7th April, 1807, until she shall find sufficient sureties to enter into recognisance with her for her personal appearance at the next Assizes to be holden for the County of York, to answer an indictment to be preferred against her for perjury, by her committed in open court at the above sessions.

This came about because Hannah had a child and she claimed William Johnson was the father. William counterclaimed that Hannah, being in child by another, had tried to get him to marry her and when that failed had tried to exhort money from him. After quite lengthy and detailed proceedings the Jurors found Hannah guilty of: ­
…Falsely, maliciously, wickedly, wilfully and corruptly, in a manner and form aforesaid did commit wilful and corrupt perjury to the great displeasure of Almighty God and to the great damage of the said William Johnson...

The sentence was transportation beyond the seas for the term of seven years, and so Hannah and her son William were put aboard the “Speke” and along with ninety-eight other female prisoners, sailed from Falmouth. One hundred and-

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-eighty-two days later, on 16th November 1808 she arrived in Port Jackson.

Hannah must have settled quickly into colonial life for within a short time, on May 27, 1810, she married Charles Daley at St. Matthews Windsor. Charles and Hannah had six children:
Ann born 1809; Mary Ann 1811; Charles 1813; Sarah 1815; John 1817; and Susannah 1819. Their second child Mary Ann was to marry John Wood and their grand-daughter Elizabeth to marry William T.A. Gosper.

  Noted events in her life were:

• Convict.

• Arrived on the Ship: "Speke", 16 Nov 1808, Sydney Cove, NSW Australia.

Hannah had a relationship with William Johnson. (William Johnson was born circa 1775.)

Hannah next married Charles (The 1st) Daley (Convict) on 27 May 1810 in St Matthews C of E, Windsor, Sydney, NSW Australia. (Charles (The 1st) Daley (Convict) was born about 1771 in Ireland UK, died on 17 May 1831 and was buried in St Matthews C of E, Windsor, Sydney, NSW Australia.)