Date of Conviction: 24/08/1805

Age at Conviction: 28

Crime Convicted of: Theft

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

Sentence Length: 7 Years

Ship Transported on: Speke

Where Arrived: Port Jackson, New South Wales

Departure Date: 18/05/1808

Arrival Date: 15/11/1808

Biography: Betty (Elizabeth) had stolen a Leicester bank note to the value of £10 from the person of James Twist at Manchester. She was the wife of James Kenworthy. Betty was originally meant to be on the Sydney Cove but Sarah Worrall took her place instead. She had already served more than three years of her sentence by the time she arrived.

Betty received an absolute pardon in March 1810. This was her second absolute pardon, having received one in December the previous year but this was declared ‘illegal’ and Lieutenant Villiers of the 102nd Regiment applied to the governor to have a new one made out on her behalf. Villiers was based at Newcastle so it seems likely Betty was there too. She had married a soldier of the 102nd Regiment and in April 1810 advised in the newspapers she was about to leave the colony, with Lieutenant Villers advertising the same just a few lines below, it may well be that it was Lieutenant Villiers himself that Betty was ‘married’ to as he was recorded leaving Newcastle for Port Jackson with his lady in 1809. By 1816 Betty was recorded having left the colony. If so, she likely arrived back in England on the Dromedary or Hindostan at the end of October 1810.