Ann Lane

  General Notes:

edward to dylan 1.ged where it is noted:
Anne (nee Lane) Sherwood arrived as a convict on the "Speke" on the 16/11/1808.

Source: - "Ups and Downs of an old Richmondite" by Alfred Smith.
Ann (Lane) was referred to by Alfred Smith.
Then there was Mrs.Sherwood, "Granny" Sherwood as she was often called, who lived up there. I knew her very well. It was nothing unusal for her to walk from the Heights (Kurrajong) to Richmond.

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Anne Lane was born in 1788 in Bristol and was convicted of stealing a gown and two children's frocks from a boarding house operated by John and Mary Ann Hopkins at 37 Kent Street in the Parish of Saint George, Southwark London.

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She was convicted at the Surrey Sessions of Peace on 21st July 1806 and sentenced to seven years transportation and arrived in Port Jackson on board the "Speke" on 15th November 1808. She formed a liaison with one John Innes or Enis, which produced a child she called John Lane, born on 30th September 1809 and baptised at St. Philips Sydney, before forming a lifelong relationship with John Sherwood. The child John Lane came with Anne to the live at North Richmond and was brought up with the Sherwoods.

John Sherwood and Anne Lane appear to have been honest hard working people. This is attested to in John's petition to Governor Darling for his own land in 1830, and is fully supported by Archibald Bell J.P. of Belmont. The following are extracts from that petition: -

That he married about twenty years ago one Anne Lane who arrived per Ship "Speke" a prisoner for seven years in the year 1806, and has had eight children by her, all of whom are now living and dependant upon the exertions of himself and wife for support, the eldest being nineteen years of age.

That memorialist and his wife have never been brought before a Justice for the slightest offence, since they have been in the Colony and have never experienced any favours from the Government with the exception of Memorialists Ticket of Emancipation and for which he has ever considered himself truly grateful.

That your Memorialist possesses twohorses, seven-head of horned cattle, a plough, harrow, cart and harness, the hard earning of the industry of myself and my wife.

  Noted events in her life were:

• source. http://www.easystreetretreat.com.au/australianroyalty where it is noted:
Ann Lane, one of 99 convicts transported on the Speke, March 1808.
Sentence details: Convicted at Surrey Quarter Session for a term of 7 years.
Vessel: Speke.
Date of Departure: March 1808.
Place of Arrival: New South Wales

Ann married John Innes circa 1809. (John Innes was born circa 1762 in Essex England and died on 30 Jun 1842 in Sydney, NSW Australia.)

Ann next married John (convict) Sherwood, son of Joseph (the first) Sherwood and Sarah, circa 1812. (John (convict) Sherwood was born on 17 Mar 1776 in Millbrook, Bedfordshire England, died on 30 May 1850 in Kurrajong, NSW Australia and was buried in St Peters, Richmond, NSW Australia.)