Mary Hitchen
The following are ‘posts’ on the Ancestry site that refer to Mary Hitchen. Mary appears to be the sister of our David Hitchen and she was transported to Australia with her children as was David.
Re: Mary Hitchen – Australian Convict – possible error in parentage
I have found Australian royalty in the family – convicts transported from England in 1818. One is Mary Hitchen of Yorkshire, who married James Buckley from Lancashire.
There is lots of information on the internet about convict ancestors, Mary included. However, many family historians have repeated what I think is an error in her birthdate and place, and thus have listed incorrect parents.
I found that Mary was removed by the Overseers of the Poor on 14 June 1805 from Crompton in Lancashire and returned to her home town of Warley near Halifax in Yorkshire (while heavily pregnant). It is most likely, then, that Mary Hitchen is the one in the IGI who was born in Warley, not Halifax (she was actually born on 15 Jan 1786 and baptised 26 February 1786 in the Congregational or Independent Church of Warley). Her father is therefore most likely to be David Hitchen and her mother either Mary or Betty (more work needed here). Her parents are NOT Joseph Hitchen and Susan Sagar.
I am hoping to start a discussion with the aim of working out Mary’s true parentage, and to find out more about her direct family.
http://boards.ancestry.co.uk/surnames.hitchen/69/mb.ash
Mary Hitchen
Hi, that is most interesting. I have found a tree in here with her ending up in Parramatta. I didn’t realise she came out as a convict. I am pretty certain that my wife is descended from her brother David who also came out as a convict from yorkshire (1837) and settled at Towrang near Goulburn. I have extracted the wedding record for David Hitchen Snr & Mary Lane from www.findmypast.co ( he was a weaver from Warley, she was from Sowerby). the details are on my Meurer tree. I think david Hitchen senior was born at Norland, but after that the trail goes cold.
Regards,
John Cherry
http://boards.ancestry.co.uk/surnames.hitchen/69.1/mb.ashx
