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Participant Info

First Name

Jane [Angelina Jane]

Surname

Stephens

Native Place

Wicklow

Age On Arrival

16

Parents

John & Eliza (living in Sydney)

Religion

Church of England

Ship Name

Thomas Arbuthnot (Sydney 1850)

Details

shipping: house servant, read & write, parents in the colony. She is wrongly noted in Barefoot & Pregnant as 'Shepherd'. Sisters, Ruth & Jane Stephens on Thomas Arbuthnot. Both hired from Hyde Park Barracks after 21 days as house servants by Mr M Bowerman of Macquarie St., Sydney. Ruth was indentured for 3 yrs at ₤6 pa and Jane, being younger was indentured for 4 yrs at ₤6pa. Their father had been convicted in Wicklow for stealing cows & transported per ‘Tory’ to VDL. Their mother, Eliza, obtained a passage on orphan ship ‘Lismoyne’ to Sydney late 1849. She was 37, daughter of Isaac & James Markes (both dead) and the shipping noted her husband John Stephens was in VDL. The family was reunited in Tasmania by July 1850 and another 4 children were born. SEE STORY ATTACHED TO Ruth Stephens

Story

Stephens, Ruth & Jane per Thomas Arbuthnot