Swift, Anne (1829/35–?)
Swift, Anne (1829/35–?)
New Zealand prostitute. Name variations: Anne Carte. Born c. 1829–1835, probably in Lancashire, England; children: 2.
Arrived in Canterbury, New Zealand, as a free immigrant (1867); refused situation as servant upon arrival and was officially considered a prostitute (1867); sent to Auckland (1868), where she had a child with a man named Massey; had another child, calling herself Carte (1870); appeared in Auckland police records as late as 1895.
See also Dictionary of New Zealand Biography (Vol. 1).
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