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Thanks for that. Do you have any information on their births and parents births. I gather they never married. My Great, great, grandmother was Eliza Howis, who was transported to van Diemen's land and married, had many more children to Frederick Butler. My grandmother ended up living in Auckland New Zealand from teenage years till death. I live in Australia.

Hi. I am not sure how I found the Ship's journal, but it was very interesting. I think I may have googled the name of the ship and then followed links to journal. But I have a copy of what I found. All three of the listed Howis ancestors aboard (Eliza, James and William were seen by the doctor for dysentery.
Journal of the Anna Maria Convict Ship
Mr. W. McCrea, Surgeon
Between the 22nd September 1851 and the 4th February 1852
National Archives Record  summary of Surgeon’s Journal.
Dec 13 Eliza Howis 23 Female Convict Dysentery Dec 21 duty
1851. Folio 18: Eliza Howis, aged 23, female convict; sick or hurt, dysentery; put on sick list, 13 December 1851, discharged 21 December
(Ill on voyage)
Jan 7 James Howis 3 Child of a Female
Convict
Dysentery Jan 17 died
Folio 10: case no 14, James Howis, aged 3, child of female convict; sick or hurt, dysentery, this child was badly fed and had been repeatedly ill with bowel complaints previously He suffered much pain and motions were very bloody; put on sick list 7 January 1852, died 17 January 1852 at sea

Jan 28 William Howis 1 Child of a Female
Convict
Dysentery Jan 30
1851
Duty

Folio 16: William Howis, aged 1; put on list 20 October 1851; result of vaccination, unsuccessful.

I agree that James was in the Union Workhouse, but I would like verification of father's name and town, age etc. I have looked through a number of sources, such as 1841 and 1851 census for Sussex area, finding Eliza and child James, but not youngest child, William. The record I found Eliza's sentence at Lewes assizes, mentioned that she was arrested with her husband James and father William but no surnames were given, making me wonder whether it was her father or husband's father. The other interesting thing about tracking this couple is that I was able to get much more information about Eliza as a female convict, what happened to her in Tasmania etc. But both her first husband, a convict, and eventual husband in Tasmania, were so much harder to find.

I am related to Eliza Howis who was a convict, transported to Van Diemen's Land with her son James and William on the ship "Anna Maria" 1851-1852. I need to know her parents's names and details of her sons' births.
Maureen