Ann was born on Norfolk Island 2nd March 1789. She was the first European female to be born on Norfolk Island. Her birth is recorded as Ann Gaskins.
Ann was raised on Norfolk Island and lived there until 1805 when she was sixteen years of age, she moved to Sydney with her parents and the rest of the family.
Apparently she didnt have any education on Norfolk Island, as she is recorded in the official records as being illiterate at the age of eighteen.
She married Charles Williams at St. Philips Church, Sydney on 2nd December 1807. Charles was an emancipated convict; he had arrived in Australia on 2nd June 1797 aboard the Ganges. They had met while they had been on Norfolk Island.
Sometime after 1820 Charles and Ann went to Launceston, Tasmania. In her own right Ann acquired a grant of land on the southern bank of the Tamar River, to the north of Launceston. This grant was adjacent other grants that were made to other members of the Lucas family.
When her mother obtained her own grant she entered into an arrangement with Ann as Tenant-in-common, and on Olivias death in 1830, Olivias land passed to her. Ann sold the land in 1836 and distributed the proceeds amongst her family.
Around 1835 Charles was working at the shipyards in Launceston, when he was murdered by a workman who hit him over the head during an argument.
In 1937 Ann gave birth to an illegitimate child whose name was registered as Frances Faro in 1838, the father being Thomas Faro, a baker who was also the licensee of the Half Moon Hotel in Tamar Street, Launceston. Thomas and Ann married at Launceston in April 1840. Shortly after their marriage they moved to Melbourne where they lived for short time before moving to Purnim near Portland where Thomas was employed by William Learmouth to run his dairy. Thomas died at Purnim on the 3rd April 1859.
During the 1860s Ann, now widowed for the second time, traveled to Dunedin, New Zealand with her youngest daughter Frances, her son-in-law Edward Manson and her grandchildren. Ann died at the Dunedin Hospital on the 15th July 1864.
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Child 1 Ann Lucas Born 2nd March 1789. By James Donohoe.
She was the first European female to be born on Norfolk Island, and was recorded as Ann Gaskins, she was the eldest of thirteen children. Her birthplace would have been in the vicinity of the present town of Kingston, behind the convict era administrative area.
Ann was raised on Norfolk Island and lived there until she was 16 years of age. In March 1805 she moved to Sydney, New South Wales, with her parents and brothers and sisters on HMS Investigator, which earlier had been in the command of Matthew Flinders for his cartographic and scientific voyages.
Ann was recorded still illiterate at the age of eighteen.
On the 2nd December, 1807, Ann married Charles William's a fellow Norfolk Islander, at St. Philip's Church, Sydney, N.S.W. The Rev. Harry Fulton, who was also a convict on Norfolk Island celebrated the marriage. The witness to the marriage was Arthur Devlin, the famed Irish rebel who later married Anns brother's sister-in-law, Priscilla Squire. Arthur and Priscilla settled in Kingston, Tasmania near former Marine, Thomas Lucas.
She gave birth to four children in Sydney and another six were born in Launceston, VDL. She had moved to Launceston in 1817 with her mother and some of her brothers and sisters. In her own right she acquired a grant of land on the southern bank of the River Tamar north of the settlement. It was adjacent to the grants made to some of her brothers and sisters.
When her mother obtained her own grant she entered into an arrangement with Ann [probably because she was the eldest] as tenant-in-common, and on Olivias death in 1830, Olivias land passed to her. Ann sold the land in 1836 and it appears she distributed the proceeds amongst the family.
Around 1835 Anns husband disappeared in mysterious circumstances {believed to have been murdered on the Pyrmont Bridge in Sydney} and in 1837 she gave birth to an illegitimate child whose name was registered in 1838 as Frances Faro, the father being a Thomas Faro, a baker who was also the licensee of the Half Moon Hotel in Tamar St., Launceston.
The couple married in April 1840 and then travelled to Melbourne where they lived for a brief time before setting in the Portland Bay area where Thomas was employed by William Learmouth to run his Dairy.
During the 1860s Ann, now widowed, travelled to Dunedin, New Zealand with her youngest daughter Frances, her son-in-law Edward Manson and her grandchildren. In 1864 on 15th July, Ann Faro, formerly Williams, nee Gascoyne [also spelt Gaskin and Gascoigne died in the Dunedin Hospital aged 75 years.
Children of Ann Lucas and Charles Williams.
A. Charles F. Sarah
B. William G. Mary Ann
C. George E. Nathaniel
D. Ann F. Maria
E. Olivia G. Thomas