Date of Conviction: 22/08/1812

Age at Conviction: 42

Crime Convicted of: Uttering Forged Notes

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

Sentence Length: 14 Years

Ship Transported on: Wanstead

Where Arrived: Port Jackson, New South Wales

Departure Date: 01/08/1813

Arrival Date: 09/01/1814

Biography: Eleanor (Ellen) was arrested at Warrington with twelve fake £2 notes, having tried to use another to pay for good there. She had previously been acquitted of uttering base money two years earlier. Eleanor left four young children behind. Whilst she was in Lancaster Castle, she petitioned the Bank of England for financial help- the letter below is what she sent:

Eleanor Thorpe, Wanstead transport ship, Deptford, 8 July 1813

‘Worthey Sir I have to inform you that I am now on board of the Ship a Going to Botaney Bay for 14 years and I have not troubled you before I hope you Goodness will kind enough to think of me now I am very much Distress for Cloaths indeed and leaving 4 Small Children behind me and not a friend to assist me in the Least thing in the world I was taken at Worrington with 12 two pound notes in my Charge and was tried at Lancaster Last august assizes and pleeded so I hope your goodness will not forget me I am Sir your Most Humble Servent Elenor Thorpe’

Eleanor was sent to Parramatta female factory on arrival and was still there as of 1816. By 1817 she was recorded as a servant, and in 1819, simply as single. Eleanor died, recorded as age 49, on the 29th February 1820 and was buried the next day within the Devonshire Street Cemetery.