What became of Hannah Burnham convict born about 1822

Question

Trying to find information about Hannah Burnham after she was granted her Certificate of Freedom in 1849.

Answer 1

Changes of name aside, it is possible that as a young female ex-con of those times, she got a position as a 'domestic' working for one Samuel BRYAN (Trove, Western Australia, Inquirer and Commercial News 29 Apr 1857) "Married On the 7th instant, by the sub-registrar of the Vasse district, HENRY MASON, mate of the American whaleship "Vesper", to HANNAH BURNHAM, only daughter of Mr. Samual BRYAN, of the Vasse district."  If this is a bit of "name washing" to disassociate herself from a convict past; there is a marriage in the same district, Busselton, WA, in 1869 #2958 of a Hannah Burnham MASON to a James Brown TRAVIS.  There is a "Hannah Birnum TRAVIS" as WA death 8729 of 1876, in the Vasse district, age 37, no parents cited.

This is a lot of speculation, I know, and the age cited at death would be way incorrect, but maybe the informant at death had no real idea of her age.  The person I have cited above is buried at Busselton Pioneer Cemetery.

Comments

Good finds, Ross. Here's the Trove source formatted as an inline reference, with a link:

<ref>Family Notices (1857, April 29). ''The Inquirer and Commercial News (Perth, WA : 1855 - 1901)'', p. 2. Retrieved January 22, 2023, from National Library of Australia Trove [https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/66005496 66005496]. "Married. On the 7th instant, by the Sub-Registrar of the Vasse district, Henry Mason, mate of the American whaleship "Vesper," to Hannah Burnham, only daughter of Mr Samuel Bryan, of the Vasse district."</ref>

I've repeated your quotation of the full text because the future of Trove is under threat: see this G2G discussion.