Date of Conviction: 18/01/1819

Age at Conviction: 19

Crime Convicted of: Theft

Court Convicted at: Liverpool Quarter Sessions (held at the Town Hall, Liverpool)

Sentence Length: 7 Years

Ship Transported on: Janus

Where Arrived: Port Jackson, New South Wales

Departure Date: 23/10/1819

Arrival Date: 03/05/1820

Biography: Ellen was from Rainhill, Liverpool. Along with Ellen Connolly, they had stolen 22 yards of fabric called ‘tabinet’ belonging to Charles Dickenson and Ezekial Brown. They had been held in Liverpool’s Borough Jail before their convictions and were then sent to await transportation at Lancaster Castle. They both had three previous sentences for felonies and had been warned that should they appear before the courts again they would be transported. Soon after arrival at Port Jackson, both Ellens, were selected to be transferred on the Princess Charlotte to Hobart in Van Diemen’s Land.

Upon arrival, Ellen was assigned to a Mrs Farrell and the same year was implicated in being an accessory to a shop robbery but appears to have been acquitted. On the 1822 muster, Ellen was recorded as having two children. Stephen and Mary. Stephen, the elder was born either during Ellen’s time in jail or during the voyage and Mary would have been born around 1821 to Ellen and another convict, sailor Peter Rodie, also convicted at Liverpool (ship- Almorah) who drowned the same year.

On 1st December 1823, 23 year old Ellen married convict William Temple (ship- Coromandel) at Hobart. They had a daughter, Julia in 1824 but she passed away the next year. Ellen was given her certificate of freedom in December 1825. The couple had a daughter, also Ellen, in 1826. The three children were recorded on the 1827 children’s muster. In December 1830 William passed away at Hobart.

Ellen then married William Tally (ship- Governor Ready) in October 1831. Ellen passed away at her grandson’s house in Hobart on the 16th December 1877, aged 78, recorded as the beloved wife of William. The funeral cortege left from her grandson’s (daughter Mary’s son) saw mills on Macquarie Street.