Re: Jane Langston

[Daisypetal]

Hi,

I expect you've seen this website but just in case,

https://www.femaleconvicts.org.au/index.php

A lot of interesting info there but you have to join to access the index,

https://www.femaleconvicts.org.au/index.php/database/database-research


If she was already married then she would have broken the seven year rule, but I think that might have been quite common.

http://www.rootschat.com/links/01lsd/


Regards,
Daisy

[thelly]

Hi Daisy,
Thanks for that information, I belong to The Female Convicts Organisation, they don't have information on convicts lives before being transported.  Not quite sure what you mean by the seven year rule?
Regards,
Thelly

[wivenhoe]

Is this your Jane?. Can you give the information you know about her TURNER family....children....their marriages etc.


TAS BDM birth
TURNER Sarah Ann Jane 8 May 1850
parents John TURNER, tailor,  Jane formerly LANGSTON
informant J TURNER, father, Murray St
(baby baptised St Davids)

TAS BDM birth
TURNER Frederick John  6 Mar 1852
parents John TURNER, tailor,   Jane formerly LANGSTONE
informant J TURNER, father, Patrick Street

TAS BDM death
TURNER Jane   57ys  tailors wife      cancer  27 November 1880
died Bathurst St  born England
informant is undertaker  8 Dec 1880

If Jane had been the informant I wonder how she might have named herself?

I think it is very likely that Jane LANGSTON is her married name, and brother Frederick is not a LANGSTON.

[thelly]

Hi,
Yes, I have all that information about Jane, her eldest daughter, Sarah m Charles Stewart, they had three children, Frederick married Mary Rachel Hurst (also daughter of a convict) they had eleven children, their youngest daughter, Elizabeth also married a Stewart, brother of Sarah's husband, they also had eleven children, Elizabeth died in childbirth. Jane has stated that she was a widow on her marriage certificate, but also on that Langstone was with an E, so if that was her married name from her first marriage, I guess there is no way I will find her maiden name!  It is the same with John Turner, he was not a convict, but is also a mystery!
Regards,
Thelly

[Daisypetal]

HI,

the seven year rule was,

See:- An Act to restrain all Persons from Marriage until their former Wives and former Husbands be dead [1604.]

“II. Provided always, That this Act, nor any Thing therein contained, shall extend to any Person or Persons whose Husband or Wife shall be continually remaining beyond the Seas by the Space of seven Years together, or whose Husband or Wife shall absent him or herself the one from the other by the Space of seven Years together, in any Parts within his Majesty’s Dominions, the one of them not knowing the other to be living within that Time.”


There is some info about it in the link I gave you,

http://www.rootschat.com/links/01lsd/

Or there is this one which might work better,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bigamy_Act_1603


So husbands or wives could legally remarry after seven years apart.

Regards,
Daisy

[matthewj64]

...I have been told by another descendant that Frederick went to New York, but can't find that out either...

Hi - her convict indent says brother "Frederick in New York" and there is a US, NYC 1841 naturalisation on Ancestry for Frederick Langston, Mariner, English

Indent here:  http://search.archives.tas.gov.au/ImageViewer/image_viewer.htm?CON15-1-3,360,329,L,52

M

add - there's an 1880 US census record for Frederick B Langston, Master Mariner, 64yo, born England, parents born Ireland

[Daisypetal]

If this is Jane's brother then it's really a shame that this doesn't mention Frederick's father


New York Evening Post
Publication date:  Monday 01 Sep 1856

Saturday 30th Rev George BUSH, Captain F B Langston of this city to Isabella dau of late Jonas BOWMAN of Hartford,VT

[matthewj64]

Findagrave record for Capt. Frederick B Langston died November 1906, buried Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings County NY
"...born Yorkshire, England, in 1816..."

M

[matthewj64]

An article about one of Frederick and Isabella's sons that has this -

"Captain Langston was a seaman, a very successful owner and captain of a merchant ship named the Parana, which sailed all around the world bringing its cargo to American and foreign ports. During the 1870s, he mostly sailed between North and South America."

https://www.brownstoner.com/brooklyn-life/walkabout-the-yachtsman-architect/