Name:Ellen HillDate of Birth:
Date of Baptism:25-Apr-1826Address:Not RecordedParish/District:ST. JOHN'SGender:FemaleCountyCo. Kilkenny
Denomination:Roman Catholic
Father:Edmund HillMother:Bridget RyanOccupation:
Sponsor 1 /
Informant 1:William Delany Sponsor 2 /
Informant 2:Ellen Ryan
Her ship “Waverly” departed on 19 July 1847.
Her height is shown as 5 ft 2 ½ inches and she was 20 years old and a ? Maid
Ellen Hill was indicted for having obtained three cloth capes, the property of John Ryan the elder, from John Ryan the younger, under false pretences. From the evidence of Mr John Ryan, sen., it appeared that three of his children went Mr McDonnell’s school, on the morning of the 22nd inst, with three cloth capes on them; and that he had not given anyone instructions to call to the school on that day for said capes. John jun., a very intelligent little boy, about ten years old, was next examined. He deposed that he and his two brothers went to school on the morning mentioned in the indictment, having cloth capes on: and that the prisoner at the bar called at the school, and got these articles from him, having represented that his father sent her, for them. Another little boy proved having seen the prisoner at the school on the 22nd, and her having asked him to send down Johnny Ryan to her. The prisoner was found guilty and sentenced to transportation for seven years.
Joseph was born in Launceston on 3rd February 1854. A search in Tasmania up to 1899 has not found a death for Joseph born in Launceston in 1854. There was a Joseph Hall with a mother Ellen in Hobart but she was a widow whose husband had died the year before Joseph.
