Date of Conviction: 18/01/1819

Age at Conviction: 19

Crime Convicted of: Theft

Court Convicted at: Liverpool Borough Quarter Sessions (held at the Town Hall, Liverpool)

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: Along with Ellen Sefton, Ellen Connolly stole 22 yards of ‘tabinet’ fabric belonging to Charles Dickenson and Ezekial Brown at Liverpool In December 1818. They had been held in Liverpool’s Borough Jail before their convictions and were then sent to await transportation at Lancaster Castle. They had both three previous sentences for felonies and had been warned that should they appear before the courts again they would be transported.

Soon after arrival at Port Jackson, Ellen, a dressmaker, was selected to be transferred on the Princess Charlotte to Hobart in Van Diemen’s Land. She married Samuel Hounslow (also Hornblow/Hownslow) (convict of the ship Atlas) in 1822 at Georgetown though they had already had a daughter, also Ellen, the year before. She received her certificate of freedom in 1826. She had a number of reprimands and fines for being drunk and disorderly between 1829 and 1832, including for being abusive to the watch house keeper. Their daughter married in 1838 and her husband passed away in 1854.