The Story of
  Ann Parker
1789-1865

The little uneducated waif from Bow in Devon, five feet in height with her sallow pock marked face, who was sentenced to death at the age of 17 at the Exeter Assizes for stealing bank notes £5 and £10 in a house near Plymouth.She was reprieved by the Royal mercy of King George III, and transported to New South Wales for seven years.  On her arrival in Sydney she was selected as his wife, by

Daniel Brien
1769-1837

- a prosperous ex convict from Seven Hills, and they lived on Vardy's Road, where they had eleven children. In 1810, he was appointed the First Police Constable  for the District of Seven Hills. She suffered death in 1865 from burns by the hand of her second husband, William Henry Smith, who was charged with her manslaughter but was acquitted.

Written specially for the thousands of school children descendants in primary schools by 
William J. Cuthill
one of their many descendants