Date of Conviction: 20/03/1820

Age at Conviction: 19

Crime Convicted of: Possession of Forged Notes

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

Sentence Length: 14 Years

Ship Transported on: Morley

Where Arrived: Port Jackson, New South Wales

Departure Date: 17/05/1820

Arrival Date: 30/09/1820

Biography: Elizabeth had ten forged £1 bank notes in her possession at Manchester. She was taken to Woolwich in a group of twelve female convicts from Lancaster Castle the first week of May 1820.

In Australia, Elizabeth was soon sent to jail for a week (1821) but received permission to marry convict Isaac Crane (ship- Surrey) in 1822 at St Philips and they had two children together. Elizabeth got a ticket of leave in 1832 at which time she was described as a laundress, 4 ft 11, a fair-ruddy complexion which was slight pock pitted, light brown hair and blue eyes and a navy coloured mole on her chin. received her certificate of freedom in 1834. She then married publican Michael Cohen (ship-John) in 1839 and was charged with bigamy in 1843 but was acquitted despite both husbands and both marriage certificates being presented in court! The newspapers described Issac as a middle-aged unassuming working class man and Michael as a ‘well-fed, straw-hatted, buckram-starched, bang-up swell’! She died at their home The Glasgow Hotel on Pitt Street, in 1845.