Whatever Happened to Martha Alchin? by Garry Smith This is not Martha Alchin, just a depiction of a woman of the period Martha Alchin (nee Latter) (1786-?) was a native of County Kent, England. There were many Alchins in Kent at the time and still are, but was Martha one of my Alchins; this was her married name so what connection is there with the Alchins who came to Jerrawa/Oolong Creek in the late 1840s? Martha Alchin was committed to Maidstone Gaol in 1834 charged with larceny. Her name appeared in the Greenwich, Woolwich, Deptford, and West Kent Guardian on 13 December 1834. She was tried at the Kent County Sessions at Maidstone on 6 January 1835. Martha was one of many prisoners sent to Maidstone Gaol in 1834 to await trial (Greenwich, Woolwich, Deptford and West Kent Guardian, 13 December 1834, 5) Martha Alchin arrived in the colony of New South Wales aboard the barque Mary on 7 September 1835. She was one of 180 female convicts who had sailed from L...
Upper Lachlan Shire, Southern Tablelands, New South Wales