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On 13 December 1832 both the Edinburgh Evening Courant and the Caledonian Mercury reported that on Monday, 10 December 1832, the Edinburgh High Court of Justiciary had sentenced Jean to seven years transportation after she “pleaded guilty of breaking into a house in the parish of Athelstaneford, county of Haddington, and stealing £37 11s 6d in money, besides some articles of trifling value, aggravated by previous conviction for theft.”
Jean was one of 178 female convicts transported to New South Wales via Rio de Janeiro and King George’s Sound, Albany, on the HMS Buffalo. The Buffalo (a 600 tons vessel commanded by F W R Sadler) sailed from Portsmouth on 12 May 1833, and arrived in Port Jackson on 5 October 1833. It is recorded that Jean was 15 years old when she had been sentenced.
On Friday, 11 October 1833, the Australian newspaper noted that the Government Gazette of Wednesday, 9 October 1833 requested “Families desirous of obtaining female servants per Buffalo, must make application to principle Superintendant of Convicts on or before Monday, next”.
At this time it is possible that Major Antill arranged the assignment of Jean Wise to him as a servant on his property at Jarvisfield, Stonequarry (in the area that is now known as Picton).
Major Henry Colden Antill
Major Antill and his family had arrived in the colony of NSW on the HMS Dromedary on 29 December 1809. Major Antill became Aide-de-Camp to Governor Macquarie. In 1822 he was granted land and established an Estate which he named "Jarvisfield". In 1828 Antill was forced to send his sheep and cattle to the Molonglo Plains because of drought.
Antill was aged 49 when he arrived in the Colony, and on 9 October 1818 he married Eliza Wills, aged 16. She was the daughter of an emancipated convict. Perhaps Jean Wise became servant to Mrs Antill.
George Betts/Bates
On 13 April 1840 Jean Wise made an application for marriage to George Betts (also a convict who had been assigned to Major Antill). Jean and George were married on 5 July 1841 at the Court House, Stonequarry, which was located on Major Antill's property known as "Jarvisfield". At that time Stonequarry encompassed the area later known as Picton and surroundings. Jean made the application to marry, which indicated she had Anglaicised her name to Jane; also that the groom’s surname had been changed to Bates.
The couple's first child, Eliza, had been born on 17 July 1840 at Stonequarry and was also baptised there on 9 August 1840. In adulthood Eliza included Antill as her second name, ie Eliza Antill Bates.
Jane relocated to Queanbeyan in 1841 where the couple's subsequent children were born; Charles 1842, Nancy 1844, John 1847, and twins George and James 1849. Another daughter, Louisa, was born in 1851.
Between 1840-1843 George Bates had been employed as a milkman and carrier in Queanbeyan. Perhaps during this time and up until 1848 he was still assigned to Major Antill. On 10 July 1848 George was granted a Conditional Pardon.
Jane died in Queanbeyan in 1874 aged 56.
Submitted by Researcher (5623) on 31 May 2016
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- The National Archives (TNA) : HO 11/9, p.92
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