A Devine Family History

Charlotte Boyce (Alias Evans according to her record) was

sentenced to 7 years at Middlesex Quarter Sessions on the

15th of October 1840 for larceny, that is, she stole a kettle and a sheet. 

Her record states she spent 6 months in a house of correction

previously and she is described as a 20 year old, single, house

servant from Westminister. She was transported from England on

the female convict ship ‘Rajah’, sailing from Woolwich on the 5th of

April 1841 and arriving in Van Deimans Land on the 19th of July 1841.

Upon arrival prisoners were assigned to colonists as servants. Charlotte’s record shows she was charged with being absent without leave from her place of work. She received a sentence of 2 months hard labour at the Cascades Female Factory.
The next year she was charged with the same offence and sentenced to 6 weeks at the washtub.  Later that year she was charged with misconduct and sentenced to 6 months hard labour.
In January 1844 Charlotte married John Gillatly. In April of that year she was charged with misconduct:  The sentence was 14 days solitary confinement at Cascades Female Factory.
Her ticket of leave was granted in 1845 and her certificate of freedom gazetted in 1847. She travelled to Port Adelaide, South Australia with her husband and three children.
She appears on the Port Adelaide Assessment Books as the owner/occupier of a property in Gannon Street, Birkenhead in Port Adelaide in 1863.

Three of her boys died as infants or children. Her son John died of Pneumonia at Albury NSW in 1882.  Charlotte lived at Birkenhead,Port Adelaide until her death in 1895.  She is buried in the old Alberton cemetery. (along with three of her children)
She was survived by her eldest daughter Ann, (Mrs James Devine) and a son Richard and daughter Charlotte, who lived together in 17 Swigg Street, Birkenhead well into their old age.(both unmarried)