Henry Owens

HENRY OWENS

Born: C. 1807, Milverton
Parents:
Residence: Bridgewater
Death: 26th August 1879, Melbourne
Spouse (1) Ann Morby, New Norfolk, Tasmania 19th February 1844
Spouse (2) Mary Kelly, Tasmania 1852
Spouse (3) Sarah Jane Hilliard
Convict Indenture: Con 31 Image 86 + Con 18 Image 138
Death: Melbourne 26th August 1879
Arrival Australia: Convict Ship “Sir Charles Forbes’. Departed London 5th March 1830, arrived Hobart Australia 27th July 1830
Crime: Housebreaking
Jailed: Admitted to IIchester Jail 12th August 1829
Sentence: 22nd August 1829, Life, Somerset, England

1832: Tasmania, in the service of Peter Rush, Hobart. 29th February, Disobedience of order

1836: Applied for “Permission to Marry” Mary Marshall (Lady of the Lake), 8th January 1836.

1837: Tasmania, August 22nd, Pilfering one Goose, 3 years hard labour, 2 of which in Chains

1841: Tasmania 20th July, Ticket of Leave Granted
Applied for “Permission to Marry” Ann Morby (Arab) December 1841

1844: Tasmania, Loss of Ticket of Leave for misconduct
Applied for “Permission to Marry” Ann Morby (Arab), February 1844.
Henry Owen married Ann Corby, 19th February at New Norfolk, Tasmania

1852: Received Conditional Pardon

1853: Sailed on the Steamer “Yarra Yarra” from Launceston to Melbourne on the 10th of April.

1861: Melbourne, Saturday, 26th October, Henry Owens and wife Jane Owens are sentenced to 3 months imprisonment for operating a Brothel in Latrobe Street.

1867: 25th November, Sarah Jane Hilliard gives birth to Edmund Henry Owens at their residence in Warburton Lane Melbourne. Henry is 61 years of age and Sarah is 27 years.

1869: Melbourne, Tuesday July 20th, City Court, before Mr Panton; Discharges- Henry Owens, a blind old man, and Sarah Hilliard, charged with insulting behaivour, were cautioned and discharged.

POLICE
CITY COURT
Saturday October 26th, 1861
Before Mr. Sturt, M.P
His worship took the Bench at 10 o’clock

Henry Owens and Jane Owens were charged with being tho keepers of a common brothel, and Anne Connelly and Mary Anne Brooks, two quite young girls, were charged with vagrancy. _ Constable Summerhayes arrested the prisoners in a house situated in Little la Trobe street, near Elizabeth-street. The place bore an infamous character. The constable stated that Brooks, the youngest girl, had not been in the house above two days, having been abducted from her home by a man named Nelson. The girl's mother said her daughter bad borne an excellent character at several situations, until Nelson obtained possession of her. The old woman Owens, Summerhayes stated, would have turned the girl naked into the street unless she had been prevented, because she would not pay her 6s. for a bed. The girl Connelly then paid her for the bed. Constable Eager deposed that he accompanied Summerhayes to the house, and heard the female prisoner make the demand for money for an immoral purpose. It was tendered, but not given. On their way to the watch house, the woman Owens wanted witness to compromise the matter. The male prisoner, who was blind, endeavoured to make his escape, but was prevented. It appeared that the girl Brooks had been recently brought under the notice of the police magistrate, who then advised her to go home to her mother. Her demeanour in court was characterised by great levity, and Mr. Sturt said he was much inclined to send her to prison. She stated that the women had sent a man named Washington to tell her she had a room to let to herself and Connelly. Mr. Sturt administered a severe rebuke to the prisoner Owens and her husband, and sentenced them to three months imprisonment each. Connelly, who, it was stated, led the other girl into crime, was discharged with a caution. The girl Brooks was sent home with her mother

29th October 1861
At the City Court yesterday Harriott Connolly and Maryanne Brooks, two young girls, who had been discharged on Saturday last on a charge of vagrancy, were again brought up, and sentenced to fourteen and Seven days' imprisonment respectively. The prisoners were found in the house of a man named Owens and his wife, a brothel of the worst description, and had abused the leniency of the Bench in the first instance extended to them.

POLICE
CITY COURT
Tuesday July 20th 1869
(Before Mr Panton, M.P)
Henry Owens, a blind old man, and Sarah Hilliard, charged with insulting behaviour, were cautioned and discharged.

POLICE
CITY COURT
Tuesday July 20 1869
(Before Mr Panton, M.P)
Henry Owens, a blind old man, and Sarah Hilliard, charged with insulting behaviour, were cautioned and discharged.

Argus
Wednesday 27th August 1879
Dr. Youl held an inquest upon the body of Henry Owens, aged 70 years, a blind beggar, who lived in a house of Little Bourke Street. Yesterday morning he was found dead in his bed. Dr Neild made a post mortem examination of the body, and desposed that death had resulted from acute peritonitis. The jury returned a verdict in accordance with the medical testimony.

Children of Henry Owens and Sarah Hilliard

Edmund Henry Owens