My 8x Great Grandmother was transported on the First Fleet for stealing some clothes and a teaspoon (which she tried to hide in the toilet). Ultimately, she en

My 8x Great Grandmother was transported on the First Fleet for stealing some clothes and a teaspoon (which she tried to hide in the toilet). Ultimately, she ended up having 6 children with 3 different men. The first was a guard on the transport ship - I doubt you could define 'consent' in that situation, and the 'relationship' ended when the voyage did; her second 'husband', my great grandfather, was a fellow convict on Norfolk Island - he became the colony's first hangman! and died there before the colony was evacuated to Hobart, where her third (and only legal husband) seemed to help her raise the family. Until he drowned in a ferry accident. Of course, who knows what her life in London was like or may have been. 220 years on, I'm certainly glad she (and a dozen other branches of my fanily tree) ended up here.