Thanks for all the help.
Where would I find the death of his Wife Jane or Ann?
What happened to his wife in Tasmania?
HENRY OWENS

Born: C. 1808
Parents:
Death: 26th August 1879, Melbourne
Spouse (1)
Spouse (2) Sarah Jane Hilliard
Convict Indenture: Con 31 Image 86 + Con 18 Image 138
Death:
Arrival Australia: Convict Ship “Sir Charles Forbes’. Departed London 5th March 1830, arrived Hobart Australia 27th July 1830
Crime: Housebreaking
Sentence: 22nd August 1829, Life, Somerset, England

1832: Tasmania, In the service of Peter Rush, Hobart. 29th February, Disobedience of order

1837: Tasmania, August 22nd, Pilfering one Goose, 3 years hard labour, 2 of which in Chains

1861: Melbourne, Saturday, 26th October, Henry Owens and wife Jane Owens are sentenced to 3 months imprisonment for operating a Brothel in Latrobe Street.

1867: Melbourne, Sarah Jane Hilliard gives birth to Edmund Henry Owen, 25th November 1867 (reg.4180).

1869: Melbourne, Tuesday July 20th, City Court, before Mr Panton; Discharges- Henry Owens, a blind old man, and Sarah Hilliard, charged with insulting behaivour, were cautioned and discharged.

POLICE
CITY COURT
Saturday October 26th, 1861
Before Mr Sturt, M.P
His Worship took the bench at 10 o’clock

Henry Owens and Jane? Owens were charged with being the keepers of a common brothel, and Anne Connelly and Mary Anne Brooks, two quite young girls, were charged with vagrancy. Constable Summerhayes arrested the prisoners in a house situated in Little Latrobe Street, near Elizabeth Street. The place bore an infamous character. The Constable stated that Brooks, the youngest girl, had not been in the house above two days, having been abducted from her home by a man named Nelson. The girls’s mother said her daughter had borne an excellent character at several situations, until Nelson obtained possession of her. The old woman Owens, Summerhayes stated, would have turned the girl naked into the street unless she had been prevented, because she would not pay her 6s. For a bed. The girl Connelly then paid her for the bed. Constable Eager deposed that he accompanied Summerhayes to the house, and heard the female prisoner make the demand for money for an immoral purpose. It was tendered, but not given. On their way to the watch house, the woman Owens wanted witness to compromise the matter. The male prisoner, who was blind, endeavoured to make his escape, but was prevented. It appears that the girl Brooks had been recently brought under the notice of the police magistrate, who then advised her to go home to her mother. Her demeanour in court was characterised by great levity, and Mr Sturt said he was much inclined to send her to prison. She stated that the women had sent a man named Washington to tell her she had a room to let to herself and Connelly. Mr Sturt administered a severe rebuke to the prisoner Owens and her husband, and sentenced them to three months imprisonment each. Connelly, who it was stated, led the other girl into crime, was discharged with a caution. The girl Brooks was sent home with her Mother.






29th October 1861
At the City Court yesterday Harriott Connolly and Maryanne Brooks, two young girls, who had been discharged on Saturday last on a charge of vagrancy, were again brought up, and sentenced to fourteen and Seven days' imprisonment respectively. The prisoners were found in the house of a man named Owens and his wife, a brothel of the worst description, and had abused the leniency of the Bench in the first instance extended to them.

POLICE
CITY COURT
Tuesday July 20th 1869
(Before Mr Panton, M.P)
Henry Owens, a blind old man, and Sarah Hilliard, charged with insulting behaviour, were cautioned and discharged.

The Argus
Wednesday 27th August 1879
Coroner James Edward Neild, M.D
1879: Death of Henry Owens. Doctor Youl held an inquest yesterday upon the body of Henry Owens, aged 70 years, a blind beggar, who lived in a house off Little Bourke-street. Yesterday morning he was found dead in. his bed. Dr. Neild made a post-mortem examination of tho body, and de- posed that death had resulted from acute peritpnitis. The jury returned a verdict in accordance with the medical testimony

What happened to the Old Women Owens?


Children of Henry Owens and Sarah Hilliard

Edmund Henry Owens