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ELLEN HICKEY

Ellen Hickey was first married to William Widdowson 1814 in Hobart .  William died in 1837 but before his death she started a relationship with Montrose Johnson by whom she had six children, the first being William Johnson who was born in 1820.  They never married.

Ellen was found dead on the bank of the Derwent River and the following inquest was held into her death

 “An inquisition indented taken for our Sovereign Lady the Queen at the house of William Mason known by the sign of the Berriedale Inn at Glenorchy in the County of Buckingham within the Island of Tasmania this thirty first day of March in the twenty third year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lady Victoria by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom and Great Britain and Ireland Queen Defender of the Faith before me Algernon Burdett Jones Esquire one of the Coroners of our said Lady the Queen for the said Island and its Dependencies on view of the Body of Ellen Hickey commonly known as Ellen Johnson then and there lying dead upon the Oaths of Francis John Weale, Joseph Reason, John Norris, John Overell, Samuel Smith, James Young and Frederick Longley good and lawful men of the said Island duly chosen and who being then and there duly sworn and charged to enquire for our said Lady the Queen when where how and after what manner the said Ellen Hickey commonly known as Ellen Johnson came to her death on the thirtieth day of March in the year aforesaid on the bank of the river Derwent situate at Glenorchy aforesaid in the Island aforesaid was found dead and that the said Ellen Hickey commonly called Johnson had no marks of violence appearing on her body but by the visitation of God in a natural way. To wit of apolexy did die but how or by what means the said Ellen Hickey commonly known as Ellen Johnson came on the banks of the river Derwent aforesaid at Glenorchy aforesaid in the Island aforesaid no evidence thereof doth appear to the said jurors.”

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