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Details: shipping: house servant, cannot read or write. No dispersal list so uncertain where Ann went to work immediately after her arrival. However by Dec 1850 there are several reports in the papers of her drowning while in the employ of Mr Walker, licensee of the ‘Talbot Inn’ and a miller at Sutton Forest near Berrima NSW. She had gone to swim an a large, deep waterhole near the inn accompanied by two of Mr Walker’s daughters and fellow servant, Elizabeth Wood. Ann and Elizabeth both drowned, despite the efforts of Oram, a servant of Mr Walker who came to rescue the girls after the Walker girls sought help. The inquest was held at Berrima and our ‘hapless Irish orphan’ was buried as Anne Hynds, aged 18, at Sutton Forest on 9 Dec by Rev W McGinty. [SMH, 20 Dec 1850, p.2; The Goulburn Herald & County of Argyle Advertiser, 21 Dec 1850, p.4; The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser, 25 Dec 1850, p.4; NSW burial Vol 117, No 1556; with assistance of Berrima District HS & FHS]