John Harry Jackson & Ellen Elizabeth Bowen
John Harry Jackson
b.Warton Lancashire
1835 transp "Mary Anne' to NSW
m.1843 Cumberland Sydney
d.Rockhampton Qld
Ellen Elizabeth Bowen
1837 Transp with mother aged 12 "Margaret" to NSW
m.1843 Cumberland Sydney
d.Rockhampton Qld
John Jackson
b.Grindleton Yorkshire
m.1813 Liverpool Lancashire
d.Huntingtonshire
Elizabeth Warry
m.1813 Liverpool Lancashire
d.Liverpool Lancashire
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John Bohan
b.Kinsdale Cork Ireland
m.1821 Kilkenny Ireland
d.Kilkenny Ireland
Mary Ann Lahy
m.1821 Kilkenny Ireland
1837 Transp "Margaret' to NSW d.Berrima NSW
Stories
JOHN JACKSON (1815 – 1868)
John Jackson was born in 1815 at Liverpool, England which is in the county of Lancashire. His parents were John Jackson and Elizabeth Warry.
At the tender age of 19 he was tried at the Surrey Quarter sessions on 1 July 1834 for “Robbing a Coach”. After 12 months in a crowded prison “Hulk”, John Jackson was transported to the Colony of New South Wales on the convict transport “Mary Ann” to serve his sentence of 7 years. The “Mary Ann” arrived in the colony on the 25 October 1835.
Records show that John Jackson was 22 years old, could read and write, he was Catholic, single, a shoemaker by occupation, and a native of Lancashire.
John Jackson received his Certificate of Freedom in 1843.
On 26 December 1843 in the Church of England, Parish of Saint Philip, in the County of Cumberland, New South Wales John Jackson married Ellen Bowen who was 18 years old. The ceremony was conducted by William Cowper, Chaplain in the presence of witnesses Thomas and Mary Howard.
Ellen Bowen was born in 1825 at Kilkenny, Ireland and the daughter of John and Mary Bowen. At the age of 9 she accompanied her mother Mary Ann Bowen who was convicted of receiving stolen wool and transported in 1837 aboard the convict transport “Margaret”.
In 1842 she was given 3 months in Sydney Goal with Sundays and Mondays in solitary confinement.
Soon after their marriage they moved to Brisbane where they lived for the next 15 years, before moving to Central Queensland. After short time in Banana, they moved to Rockhampton, where they lived for the rest of their lives.
John lived only to see his eldest daughter Margaret married to George Roberts in 1864, and to see only two of his 66 grandchildren. He died on 8 April 1868 and was buried in the Dawson Road Cemetery Rockhampton on 9 April 1868.
Ellen was left a widow for the next 13 years before she died on 14 October 1881, and she too was buried in the Dawson Road Cemetery. Ellen lived to see 31 of her grandchildren.
John and Ellen were blessed with 11 children, only 1 of which died in infancy.
Children:
1. Margaret was born in 1845 in Brisbane and married (1) George Roberts (2) Hugh Matheson.
2. John James was born on 16 May 1846 in Brisbane and married (1) Mary Ann Graham (2) Mary Genesty.
3. Thomas was born on 15 December 1848 in Brisbane.
4. Rebecca was born on 9 September 1850 in Brisbane and married Gustav Phillipi.
5. Elizabeth was born on 21 April 1853 in Brisbane and married John Warry.
6. Mary Ann was born in 1856 in Brisbane and married (1) William Strasburg (2) Thomas Hayes.
7. Ellen was born on 18 March 1858 in Brisbane and married Richard Welsh.
8. Martin was born in 1860 in Brisbane and married Margaret O’Neill.
9. Rachael was born on 17 November 1862 in Banana and married Thomas Welsh.
10. George MacKenzie was born on 8 May 1865 in Rockhampton and married Sarah Catherine Doonan.
11. Emily was born on 11 August 1867 in Rockhampton and married Thomas Ryan.
VOYAGE TO SYDNEY ON THE ‘MARY ANN’
The Mary Ann was the next convict ship to leave England for New South Wales after the Departure of the ‘England’ in June.
Some of the convicts arriving on the ‘Mary Ann’ had been tried and convicted at the Old Bailey and imprisoned at Newgate before being sent to the hulks.
The ‘Mary Ann’ was fitted out at Deptford in the summer of 1835 for the conveyance of 306 convicts to Sydney. The guard was embarked on 23 June 1835 and consisted of two commissioned officers of the 4th Regiment, one sergeant, two corporals, and 28 privates of the 4th, and 28th Regiments, accompanied with eight women, and six children.
On 26 June the ‘Mary Ann’ dropped down the River, from Deptford, to Woolwich, where 150 male convicts were embarked, from the ‘Justitia’, and ‘Ganymede’ hulks. She then proceeded to Sheerness, where on the 30th June, 126 male convicts were embarked from the ‘Fortitude’ and 30 convict boys from the ‘Eurylus’ hulks at Chatham completing the total of 306.
On the 9th July the sailing orders were received and the ship proceeded to the Downs. Westerly winds with rain and squally weather were experienced at this time. They had fine moderate weather in August when they were off the coast of Madeira. About the 20th August they got into the South East Trade wind with the weather being moderate and fine. On the 6th September strong winds, squalls and rain was experienced and by October there was a constant swell of the sea from the South West, which kept the decks and berths continually wet and damp.
Surgeon Campbell France reported that generally the people on board were healthy. There were a few exceptions and there had been an outbreak of measles early in the voyage. One debilitated convict died while still at the Downs and two children of soldiers also passed away on the voyage. There was one birth.
The prisoners were landed at Sydney on the 11th November 1835.
Mary Ann Lahy
In 1836, Mary Lahy was found guilty of ‘receiving stolen wool’ and was sentenced to be transported to Australia for a term of 14 years. Mary was detained at Pigeon House Gaol in Dublin on 16/02/1836 aged 44.
Mary’s sons and her eldest daughter, stole a sheep. Mary was convicted for 14 yrs – receiving stolen wool. Her children were also convicted & sent to Australia as convicts. Her youngest daughter, Ellen was not convicted but was sent to Aust with Mary.
In 1849 while on her ‘Ticket of Leave’ (similar to being on parole) Mary was illegally absent from the district of Windsor NSW where she was supposed to stay. Mary was described as 5ft 1 3/4 inches, brown complexion, brown hair dark grey eyes, nose inclined to the right side, small raised mole left cheek and scar on back of little finger.