"The children of the convicts who are born here, I call after the mother's names (they give them what Christian names they please) otherwise it would be impossible to know, hereafter, who was the mother of the child, should it be necessary. The first Commissary Andrew Miller said in a statement to Governor King on his methods of identification of female prisoners -: Whilst there is no record of a marriage to Edward Whitton, we cannot be certain as some very strange practices were adopted in those days by the authorities in the colony. Within a year half of the men who sailed on the "Queen" had died, Seven convict men and one convict woman died on the voyage.
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The "Queen" sailed from Cork Cove, County Cork, Ireland in April, 1791 with 23 Irish convict women and 133 Irish convict men and arrived at Port Jackson in September, 1791. Nothing is known of Anne Slater’s parents or her early life in Ireland but Anne Slater was to become one of the first pioneer Irish - Australians. The Third Fleet consisting of 12 ships with 2459 convicts of whom 230 were female arrived in Sydney between July 9th 1791 and February 14th, 1792 with 218 convicts dying on the voyage.Īnne Slater had been tried in 1788 when she was 30 years of age.
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Of the 1268 prisoners transported in the Second Fleet, 267 died during the voyage and 124 died in hospital after arrival.
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It is mentioned briefly that the crime Ann committed to receive transportation was the theft of bed curtains from her employer, although this is only mentioned in one online source Īnne Slater came out from Dublin on the "Queen", the first convict ship from Ireland, which was the part of the Third Fleet and it departed for Port Jackson before news of the appalling conditions of transportation and the high mortality rate of the Second Fleet reached England. Before her Conviction, her occupation was listed as "Nursery maid".