Date of Conviction: 12/10/1803

Age at Conviction: 28

Crime Convicted of: Theft

Court Convicted at: Lancaster Quarter Sessions (held at the New Bailey, Salford)

Sentence Length: 7 Years

Ship Transported on: William Pitt

Where Arrived: Port Jackson, New South Wales

Departure Date: 10/08/1805

Arrival Date: 11/04/1805

Biography: Alice, a single woman, born in Thornham near Rochdale, stole silk handkerchiefs at Manchester. She was transported from Lancaster Castle to Spithead to board the ship along with nine group of other women in July 1805.

The year following arrival, Alice already had a ticket of leave and was living with Stephen Murphy (ship- Rolla). Alice married Stephen Murphy in 1810, the year of her freedom and his mitigation of life sentence for involvement in the 1798 rebellion in Ireland and they went on to have three sons in Sydney with the death of one in 1814. They ran a pub, the Saint Patrick on Gloucester Street at The Rocks, where she employed fellow Lancastrian convict Sarah Halliwell until her husband’s death in May 1818. For a time, Stephen advertised that he was intending to leave the colony in 1816, though this did not happen. After this time Alice inherited all her husband’s estate, by this time on Cambridge Street at The Rocks.

Two months after Stephen’s death in July 1818, Alice married James Flinn (ship- Guildford) at St Philips who was one of their assigned workers. Together they carried on running the pub. Their time was relatively brief as Alice died 1st June 1825, aged 50. She was buried along with her late husband Stephen at Devonshire Street Cemetery under a named memorial stone. They were later re interred together to La Perouse/Bunnerong Cemetery.