Transportation to Van Deimans Land 1840
We know nothing about her parents or family and assume they were left behind in England.
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. (They were paid something like 7 pounds a year for their labour) Charlotte�s record shows she was placed in service to Macmichael in 1841 and later 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.(See link below)
The next year, while in service again, she was charged with the same offence and sentenced to 6 weeks at the washtub. Later that year while in service yet again, she was charged with misconduct and sentenced to 6 months hard labour.
In January 1844 Charlotte married John Gillatly.
She most likely couldn�t read or write as she left �x� as her mark on the marriage register.
In April of that year she was charged with misconduct: �dancing in a booth on the race course.� The sentence was 14 days solitary confinement at Cascades Female Factory.
Her ticket of leave was granted in 1845 and within a few years Charlotte, with her husband and two children travelled to Port Adelaide in South Australia.
What is interesting is that she appears on records as the owner/occupier of a property in Gannon Street, Birkenhead in Port Adelaide in 1863, so she may have lived independent of her husband.
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 Cheltenham cemetery. (along with at least five of her children)
As well as her daughter Ann, she was survived by a son Richard and a daughter Charlotte, who lived together in 17 Swigg Street, Birkenhead well into their old age.(both unmarried)