Ann Aylett

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2002 Administrative Appeals Tribunal

Claimants gave evidence that a pardoned convict, Samuel Hite, married another former convict, Mary Ann Pendrill, and that Samuel had a brother, Thomas Hite, who came to Tasmania as a sealer-sailor and took up with an Aboriginal woman.

This pairing is said to have resulted in a daughter, Ann, born in 1837, who was taken in by Samuel Hite and his wife Mary Ann and recorded as their own.

Ann went on to marry a William Aylett, and evidence was given that both are buried in the Jenner Cemetery at Wynyard, with Ann in the Aboriginal section and William in the white section.

On this basis, the tribunal found that the claimants were "the descendants of Thomas Hite and an Aboriginal woman".

This report clearly states that, as well as their daughter Ann, "Thomas Hite and his aboriginal wife had a son, William, in 1844. Samuel and Mary Ann also took William and reared him".