Elizabeth Cook

Date of Conviction: 24/01/1793

Age at Conviction: 19

Crime Convicted of: Theft

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

Sentence Length: 7 Years

Ship Transported on: Indispensable

Where Arrived: Port Jackson, New South Wales

Departure Date: 01/10/1795

Arrival Date: 30/04/1796

Biography: Elizabeth was a single woman of Manchester. She was sent from the recently opened New Bailey court house as part of a group of 7 prisoners to await transportation at Lancaster Castle; she had stolen a great coat. Elizabeth got her certificate of freedom in 1810. It doesn’t appear she married and she died, free, in 1817 and is buried at St John’s, Parramatta.