Date of Conviction: 16/10/1811

Age at Conviction: Unknown

Crime Convicted of: Theft

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

Sentence Length: 7 Years

Ship Transported on: Minstrel

Where Arrived: Port Jackson, New South Wales

Departure Date: 04/06/1812

Arrival Date: 25/10/1812

Biography: Elizabeth (also Betty) was the wife of Joseph Buckley, she had stolen clothing from a Mrs Williams at Manchester. In February 1814, she married Edward Shackley at St John’s, Parramatta but Edward left the colony. The following year in 1817 he received permission to return to the colony and came back as a free passenger onboard Ocean. She was sent to the Derwent River in Van Diemen’s Land in 1818 but her Tasmanian convict record is blank and she appears on the 1820 musters in New South Wales, saying she is married at Sydney, so perhaps the transfer to Van Diemen’s Land was called off as her husband was returning to Australia? She advertised in the newspaper in late 1818/early 1819 that she was intending to leave the colony. Her husband remarried in 1829 so it seems possible that Elizabeth had died or actually did leave NSW before this date.