Date of Conviction: 19/01/1803

Age at Conviction: 19

Crime Convicted of: Theft

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

Sentence Length: 7 Years

Ship Transported on: Experiment

Where Arrived: Port Jackson, New South Wales

Departure Date: 02/01/1804

Arrival Date: 12/06/1804

Biography: Catherine was a married woman from Manchester and the wife of James Williams. She had stolen silk handkerchiefs at Heaton Norris from William Haddlestone along with Hannah Wallworth, who she was tried and transported with. Catherine, Hannah and the others, left Lancaster Castle in the last days of November 1803 and were soon after put onboard ship at Spithead.

Catherine gained her certificate of freedom on the 31st May 1810. She was recorded as the wife of David Evans in 1816 (no record found so presumably a common-law relationship). During the 1818, 1820 and 1821 musters, Catherine was described as a housekeeper.

Now aged 38, Catherine married fellow Mancunian and shipwright Nathan(iel) Lloyd (ship- Earl Cornwallis) at St Philips, Sydney in October 1822 and they had their own assigned convicts this year. In 1828, they were recorded as living together at 3 Harrington Street in Sydney.

Only a few years after the last muster, on the 4th May 1831, Catherine died (recorded as aged 52, but more likely about 47). She was buried in the Devonshire Street Cemetery and a headstone was raised for her saying ‘Sacred to the memory of Catherine Lloyd’ along with her death date and age. She was joined by her husband less than four years later and the couple were later re-interred at La Perouse Cemetery.

Their gravestone was captured by the transcribers prior to the exhumation and re-interments of the 40,000 or so individuals in Devonshire St. Image courtesy of State Library of NSW