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Participant Info

First Name

Ann

Surname

Towzer [Tozer, Towser]

Native Place

Not recorded

Age On Arrival

no record

Parents

Not recorded

Religion

Not recorded

Ship Name

Inconstant (Adelaide Jun 1849)

Details

Passenger list, South Australian Register, 9 Jun 1849; servant of Mr Gilpin in Nov 1849 - stated she was matron on Inconstant-he accused her of ‘making a brothel of his house’ [SAR 10 Nov 1849]; several articles re Francis Johnson [Black Frank] for assault & drunkenness in Adelaide; Anne Johnson charged with drunkenness, disorderly conduct & being a prostitute, 1854-l878; she seems to be the Ann Towzer who had 3 children with Francis Johnson 1851-55 & son with Henry Brown in 1861. Ann Johnson, died 11 Dec 1888, at Payneham Road, Norwood, ‘beloved wife of Francis Johnson’. ‘Black Frank’ arrived to Sydney in 1833; 1884 he was a driver for Cobb & Co.; 1887 he returned to the West Indies - no evidence he returned to South Australia. Another Francis Johnson married Anne Wilson in 1851 in Antrim, Ireland & they arrived on the Nashwauk in May 1855. There is also a 37 year old Ann Tozer who arrived on the Lochee to Adelaide on 1 Feb 1887.

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