Ann (Shadwell) Vale [Convict "Canada" 1810]

Ann SHADWELL was born c1772

Ann was convicted and sentenced to transportation for life. She arrived in Sydney Cove on 8/9/1810 on "Canada" .

Ann married William VALE and they had the following children

• Hannah / Ann 1813

Ann died sometime after 1828

Note: some sites indicate a death date of July 1851 in Richmond - sources are needed to verify this.

• http://australianroyalty.net.au/individual.php?pid=I52558&ged=purne...
• https://convictrecords.com.au/convicts/shadwell/ann/85799

Tried and convicted at the Suffolk Assizes on 25th March 1802, sentenced to transportation for 7 years. Left England on 28th January 1806. Ship:- the ‘Fortune’ sailed with 260 male convicts on board of which 4 died during the voyage. Arrived on 12th July 1806.

In the Colony, William had a common law relationship with convict Ann Shadwell (‘Canada’ 1810) that resulted in the birth of 1 child, Hannah b1813.

William died in 1859 at Richmond age 81.

Maureen Withey on 28th September, 2020 wrote:

Saturday last Philip Harrold and William Vale (apprehended at Mildenhall) were committed to our gaol, by John Swale, Esq. charged with stealing sundry geese, turkies, and ducks, the property of Thomas Dorr, of West Tofts, Norfolk. Bury and Norwich Post, 18 Nov 1801.

————————————————————————— At Bury, ... Philip Harrold, and William Vale, for stealing poultry, and Jonathan Cole, for stealing, sixteen bushels of oats in the chaff; to be transported for 7 years. St James Chronicle, 6 April 1802.

————————————————————————— On Sunday last Hannah Williams, Wm. Vale, and Philip Harrold, convicts in our gaol, were conveyed from thence to Portsmouth, to be put on board the Coromandel and Experiment, bound Botany Bay. Bury and Norwich Post, 9 Nov 1803.