Date of Conviction: 25/03/1797

Age at Conviction: 33

Crime Convicted of: Burglary

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

Sentence Length: Life

Ship Transported on: Britannia

Where Arrived: Port Jackson, New South Wales

Departure Date: 01/01/1798

Arrival Date: 18/07/1798

Biography: Elizabeth burgled the house of a Mr Morley at Manchester along with Thomas Hulme, her brother. They had death sentences reprieved. Thomas died either whilst aboard the hulks at Portsmouth or prior to departure on the Hillsborough. A letter was sent to the Sheriff of Lancaster that Elizabeth and the other female convicts awaiting transportation were to be issued 24 pairs of stockings and handkerchiefs, two shifts and shoes before they left Lancaster for the south coast.

In New South Wales, she married fellow convict Thomas Hackett (ship- Barwell) and they had a son, John in 1802. The 1828 census shows her ‘free by servitude’ and only under a 7 year sentence; along with her husband Thomas, son John and two assigned convict servants, living and farming at the ‘Northern Boundary’ at the Field of Mars where they had 120 acres. Elizabeth died in July 1838 aged 74 and is buried at St Johns, Parramatta in a family plot with headstone still in situ along with her husband and several grandchildren.