Date of Conviction: 20/03/1813

Age at Conviction: 23

Crime Convicted of: Theft

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

Sentence Length: 7 Years

Ship Transported on: Wanstead

Where Arrived: Port Jackson, New South Wales

Departure Date: 01/08/1813

Arrival Date: 09/01/1814

Biography: Elizabeth was charged with having stolen eleven Bank of England notes, value £17, the property of William Rowland of Liverpool. She was a nursemaid.

On arrival, she was sent to Parramatta, however later the same year she was sent to Newcastle penal colony on the Lady Nelson for a misdemeanor for one year. By 1815 she was indentured and ‘the wife of Edward Cureton’ (Ship- Glatton). This is perhaps an error as Cureton was actively marrying and having a family himself at the same time- suggesting he was employer only. By 1817 Elizabeth was in the female factory. She was sent to Van Diemen’s Land that year on the ship Pilot with future partner Benjamin Hart (ship- Somersetshire) where she was set to ‘country service’. She has the most extensive misconduct record of all the Lancastrian women to date, with no less than 37 individual colonial convictions between 1817 and 1832; the vast majority for being drunk and disorderly, usually resulting in fines or short stays in the female factory, despite being free by servitude from 1823. Her common law husband, Benjamin died in 1825.

By March 1841, Elizabeth had been admitted to the New Norfolk hospital with ulcers and she died 13 May 1843 and was buried at St Matthews Church of England Cemetery in New Norfolk four days later. Her name is on a plaque in the cemetery.