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Ephraim Child (1593-1663) and his nephew, Benjamin Child (d.1678), immigrated in 1630 to Watertown, Massachusetts. Ephraim left no progeny, but Benjamin settled in Roxbury, Massachusetts, and left twelve children. Descendants and relatives lived in New England, New York, New Jersey, Virginia, Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota and elsewhere. Some descendants became members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and moved to Utah and elsewhere. Other descendants immigrated to Ontario and elsewhere in Canada. Includes some Child ancestry and genealogical data in England.
Thomas Clint and Ann Oliver were married in 1755 at Ponteland, Northumberland, England. Their grandson, Edward Clint (1808-1864), and his wife, Mary Chalmers (1806-1871), immigrated to Canada in 1837 and settled in Montague Township, Lanark County, Ontario. Localities where descendants live include Ontario, British Columbia, California and Michigan.
These women are twice convicted, and among them are no doubt some of the most depraved of their sex. -- James Backhouse. ‘A heartbreaking and compelling story of a spirited convict woman.’ Hannah Rigby was a poor Liverpool seamstress, a prisoner and a serial thief. Exiled from her homeland, oppressed by poverty and rigid social mores, used and discarded by a series of men. An “exemplary” servant who was fond of a lark – and a single mother determined to keep her family together. One Free Woman tells the compelling true story of the only female convict to stay in Moreton Bay when the penal settlement closed – a woman who notoriously served three separate sentences of transportatio...