Date of Conviction: 21/03/1818

Age at Conviction: 28

Crime Convicted of: Theft (Shop Lifting)

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

Sentence Length: 14 Years

Ship Transported on: Lord Wellington

Where Arrived: Port Jackson, New South Wales

Departure Date: 28/05/1819

Arrival Date: 20/01/1820

Biography: Euphemia, better known as Effey had stolen 200 yards of ribbons from Mrs Newby’s shop to the value of 40 shillings from a shop in Liverpool along with Anne Ward who had received the goods. Both had a death sentences commuted. She was described as being a native of Fife, Scotland and was 5 ft 2 inches with a fair complexion, blue eyes and light brown hair. She had been married at Shrewsbury in 1812 to a Lloyd Pugh and moved in York where her sons were born. She was convicted in her maiden name.

Effey was sent to the female factory on arrival as she had arrived with her two children John and Lloyd Pugh who she later tried to put (unsuccessfully) into an orphanage. She married convict Isaac Howarth (ship- Indian), a shopkeeper and later a publican of the ‘Lame Dog’ at Parramatta and had two more children with him, Ellen and Isaac. In the 1828 muster only Effey, Isaac and Isaac junior are present. Effey got her certificate of freedom in 1832.

She died age 68 in 1853 and was buried within the Presbyterian section of a graveyard in St Lawrence’s parish, Sydney.