ANN GREEN/COWLEY - LADY PENRHYN

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Ann Green, alias Cowley, a 28-year-old mantua maker, was charged at the Old Bailey on 13 December 1786, with stealing 19 china plates to the value of 7/6d and one china bowl to the value of 6d, the property of William Moody. She was found guilty and sentenced to seven years transportation. Ann was put aboard Lady Penrhyn. She had a young child with her, a son named William, who died on 8 February 1787, before the Fleet sailed. 

 
On the voyage, Ann formed an association with William Sever, captain of Lady Penrhyn. A daughter was born to them on 9 November 1788 and was christened Letitia Green. 

 
On 31 March 1792, Ann Green married William Bledy/Bladdy, who had been charged at Carlisle, Cumberland, on 7 August, 1790, and transported on Brittania, arriving in 1791 with a seven-year sentence. A daughter, Jane, was born to Ann and William on 7 January 1795, and a son, Thomas, on 24 April 1797.  Ann was granted 50 acres of land at Mulgrave Place in 1797 and William received his first grant in 1802. By 1820, the family held 70 acres on the Hawkesbury. 

Letitia Green, known as Letitia Bladdy, was aged 16 in 1804 when she married Hawkesbury settler, Roger Twyfield, aged 38, who had arrived on Friendship. His wife, Mary, had died after a short illness only two weeks previously. Letitia appears to have been the first colonial born girl to marry in the Colony. She died in 1827, aged 38.  

Records show the Bladdy family still being issued with rations at Windsor in 1812. In that year, on 5 October, Ann and William's daughter, Jane, married Richard Ballard, second officer on Hunter. They had a daughter, Jane Ann, born in 1813.  By 1814, Ann Bladdy was housekeeper at Government House, Windsor. She died in 1820, aged 67, and is buried at St Matthew's, Windsor.