Date of Conviction: 19/01/1819

Age at Conviction: 33

Crime Convicted of: Theft

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

Sentence Length: 7 Years

Ship Transported on: Janus

Where Arrived: Port Jackson, New South Wales, then Hobart Van Diemen’s Land

Departure Date: 23/10/1819

Arrival Date: 03/05/1820

Biography: Elizabeth had stolen a watch belonging to a John Brown at Manchester. Soon after arrival at Port Jackson, Elizabeth, a cotton weaver and single woman was selected to be transferred on the Princess Charlotte to Hobart in Van Diemen’s Land.

She married convict William Townsend, a farmer at Launceston, in the November of her arrival year and got her certificate of freedom in 1828 after a rare entirely blank convict conduct record free from any blemishes. She died on the land she had farmed on the George town road just outside Launceston in January 1848 from erysipelas, aged about 61.