Date of Conviction: 20/01/1818

Age at Conviction: 20

Crime Convicted of: Theft

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

Sentence Length: 7 Years

Ship Transported on: Maria

Where Arrived: Port Jackson, New South Wales

Departure Date: 15/05/1818

Arrival Date: 17/09/1818

Biography: Elizabeth was a single woman of Manchester; she had stolen money. Put on board on the 20th March, the surgeon noted that she had ‘Gonorrhoea. Got it six weeks previous to her coming on board, the eyes are very much inflamed’. She was given zinc sulphate and lead suppositories as well as cold baths infused with senna and potassium nitrate solution. There was a continuation of symptoms and she was treated with potassium nitrate, potassium bitartrate, magnesium sulphate and linseed oil.

Shortly after arrival, she was sent to Van Diemen’s land on the Elizabeth Henrietta. She had a son with her employer, farmer Thomas Livermore in late 1826, then married Thomas and had their son baptised on the same day in Sept 1827. Husband Thomas died just two weeks later. From 1833 until 1839, things took a downwards turn with 14 years added to her sentence for an assault followed by many sentences of being absent without permission from her master, prostitution and being drunk/ disorderly. Elizabeth had a daughter in 1834 in the female factory at Cascades, Hobart. in 1841 she remarried a widower, James Davey at Launceston. She finally received a conditional pardon in 1843 and a certificate of freedom in 1847. James died in the 1860s and in old age, she married Arthur McCombe in 1871. She died, from dementia in 1883, age around 86.