Date of Conviction: 30/04/1800

Age at Conviction: 34

Crime Convicted of: Theft

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

Sentence Length: 7 Years

Ship Transported on: Earl Cornwallis

Where Arrived: Port Jackson, New South Wales

Departure Date: 18/11/1800

Arrival Date: 12/06/1801

Biography: Elizabeth had stolen money from a Samuel Greaves along with Elizabeth Howard and another man. An order was sent to Lancaster Castle in October 1800 that she along with 12 other female prisoners were to be clothed and conveyed to Gravesend.

She married Dublin convict Henry Armstrong (ship Britannia) in 1804 at St Johns, Parramatta. Elizabeth got her certificate of freedom in 1811. After Henry’s death in 1819, she then married Thomas Powderley (Irish born from Liverpool, ship- Morley) at Parramatta the same year and signed with an ‘x’. He was a constable at Parramatta and the County Gaol in Sydney where she was stationed with him in 1825. In 1828 Elizabeth was in the Benevolent Institution.

Elizabeth lived an incredibly long life, passing away in 1860 at Sydney at the age of 94.