Ann Inett
| Date of birth |
Place of conviction |
Date of conviction |
Sentence |
Transport ship |
| c. 1757 |
Worcester |
11 March 1786 |
Death commuted to 7 years |
Lady Penrhyn |
Inett, a Mantua maker from Grimley, was convicted for stealing 1 petticoat (20s) with force of arms. Her death sentence was commuted to 7 years.
In February 1788, Inett was sent to Norfolk Island where she lived with Philip Gidley King, Second Lieutenant in the Royal Marines and had two sons, Norfolk and Sydney. They returned to Port Jackson in March 1790. In October King left alone for England. There he married his cousin, Anna Josepha Coombe and returned with her as Lieutenant-Governor of Norfolk Island, and later Governor of New South Wales. Probably at King's arrangement, Inett married Second Fleeter Richard John Robinson. In 1796 Inett's sons went to England with King. In 1800 Inett was given land in Parramatta where she and Robinson had an inn, the 'Yorkshire Grey'. In 1820 she left on the Admiral Cockburn. Nothing further of Inett is known.