Date of Conviction: 23/04/1817

Age at Conviction: 30

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 and a needle worker. She had stolen cheese from T. Dale. She was put on board ship on 17 March. The ship’s surgeon recorded that Elizabeth, like many of the women, suffered constipation during the voyage; she was given jalap root. She was also not well behaved onboard and was punished by the surgeon for interrupting him in his duties by having her arm tied to the rigging! He also recorded that she also suffered from rheumatism.

Immediately after arriving, Elizabeth was sent to Port Dalrymple at Van Diemen’s Land on the Elizabeth Henrietta. There, she was recorded in 1820 as a mantua (dress) maker who had married to Thomas Prosser at St Johns Launceston in 1819. She had earned her freedom through servitude by 1824. The marriage between Elizabeth and Thomas was evidently breaking down in 1828 as Thomas placed an advert in the newspaper saying he would not be responsible for any debts she incurred. Her conduct record had been quiet too until March 1828 when she was bound over to find sureties for being disorderly and threatening to beat a Mrs Mountgarrett. Only the next month she was drunk and disorderly in the streets and given a telling off but two weeks later, repeating the same offence she was held for 2 weeks in the House of Correction. In June she was again in trouble for being drunk and disorderly but let off. Elizabeth died only four months after these events at Launceston hospital in October 1828.