Charlotte
Barnes, one of 278 convicts transported on the Admiral Gambier and Eolus
[Aeolus], July 1808.
Charlotte Barnes after Samuel Pateman’s death,
remarried to Thomas Bevan on 20 February 1855 in the parish of Pennant Hills,
NSW (Reg. No. V1855388 43B/1855).
Charlotte
later died in 1866 in the parish of Parramatta, NSW (Reg. No. 5890/1866).
The Sydney Morning Herald 22 May 1866
INQUEST -An
Inquest was held today by the coroner of
the district upon the body of a widow woman named Charlotte Bevan, aged 72, a resident of
Pennant Hills, who died on the previous day. It appeared that while the
deceased was sitting near the fire, and in the act of dressing a wound on her
leg, her cloths caught fire, and no one
being near to render assistance, death was the result Verdict Death from shock, resulting from
accidental burning.
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