Rose Hannah Flood

  Noted events in her life were:

• source. Marion Purnell where it notes:
Rose was sentenced to 7 years transportation at the September 1789 Old Bailey Sessions for the theft of an apron valued at sixpence and a tablecloth valued at 13 pence. She had been lodging with William Connell, a breeches maker of 99 Rosemary Lane Whitechapel, for a fortnight when the items were missed. Suspecting her, the landlord enquired at the pawnbroker's four doors away and found she had pawned the missing items for 13d. At a committal examination she admitted taking and pawning the items pleading that she had been 'in great distress' (poverty). Her shaky signature at the bottom of the statement indicates she was barely literate. Changing her story at the trial, she claimed to have bought the tablecloth in Rosemary Lane, which had a thriving street market. After two months in Newgate, she was sent to the ship 'Neptune' on 11 Nov 1789.

Rose married Charles Cross on 21 Nov 1790 in Sydney Cove, NSW Australia. (Charles Cross was born circa 1765 in Somerset, Somersetshire England and died on 13 Oct 1835 in Wilberforce, County of Cumberland, NSW Australia.)