Date of Conviction: 17/07/1820

Age at Conviction: 23

Crime Convicted of: Theft

Court Convicted at: Lancaster Quarter Sessions (held at the New Bailey, Salford)

Sentence Length: 7 Years

Ship Transported on: Remained in England

Where Arrived: N/A

Departure Date: N/A

Arrival Date: N/A

Biography: Eliza was a single woman, born in Manchester. She had stolen three pairs of stockings from a Cornelius Ramsden. Her jail description said she was subject to fits of epilepsy. She had several previous convictions at Manchester. She had a sallow complexion, brown eyes, brown hair, a flat nose and was of low stature. Her mother kept a cook shop in Smithy Door. A petition (September 1821) explains she made the ‘errors’ due to her destitute situation and the little property/goods she had been left by her (now) late mother had been squandered by the man she was due to marry who then abandoned her due to her daily epileptic fits. Whilst in jail she was having seizures five or six times a day and in her petition asks for mercy to be allowed to seek the help of her sisters to take her to Manchester Workhouse or Infirmary. On 15/10/1821 Eliza received a pardon and was discharged from Lancaster. She died the following year, aged 25 in May 1822 from her epilepsy at 50 Ancoats Street, Manchester and was buried at the New Jerusalem Temple Church in Salford.