Date of Conviction: 25/03/1815

Age at Conviction: 33

Crime Convicted of: Theft from the Person

Court Convicted at: Lancaster Assizes (held at Lancaster Castle)

Sentence Length: 7 Years

Ship Transported on: Lord Melville

Where Arrived: Port Jackson, New South Wales

Departure Date: 29/08/1816

Arrival Date: 24/02/1817

Biography: Elizabeth, a servant, stole from Charles Knight 17 bank notes of a total of £86 and a £30 bill of exchange at Liverpool. Nicholas Cunningham (possibly her father?) received the notes and was also convicted, sentenced to 14 years transportation).

In 1820, Elizabeth was recorded as being in the female factory, however, there is also a death record for an Elizabeth Cunningham aged 36, buried at the Old Sydney Burial Ground in September 1818. This is also where Nicholas Cunningham, above mentioned is buried, having died in 1817.