Date of Conviction: 21/07/1823

Age at Conviction: 40

Crime Convicted of: Theft

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

Sentence Length: 7 Years

Ship Transported on: Grenada (1)

Where Arrived: Sydney Cove, New South Wales

Departure Date: 25/09/1824

Arrival Date: 23/01/1825

Biography: Elizabeth stole a pair of gold buckles. Whilst in Lancaster Castle she was described; she said she was born at Dublin, was married, was a needle woman and had two children. She had a very sallow complexion, brown eyes, dark brown hair, was pug nosed and had lost several teeth in her upper jaw but was in good health. This was her third conviction and she had previously served time for kidnapping a child.

Further information on her arrival stated she was a tiny 4ft 9, her calling was that of a house and laundry maid, she was a widow, and her two children were living in Yorkshire, her native place, but one daughter was expected to come to the colony in the ‘Henry’. That daughter was 18 year old Jane Henrie (aka Maria Wilkinson), convicted of shoplifting black cloth at Chester Quarter Sessions. Jane/Maria declared her home at Leeds and that she had previously been jailed at Liverpool. Jane/Maria arrived at Hobart and after two years was permitted to travel to Sydney with her husband James New, where they ran the Mermaid inn on Cambridge St/ Cumberland Street. However, despite the close proximity to her mum, who by 1828 was also living at Cumberland Street with husband and mariner Richard Baker (ship- Grenada) (they had married at St Mary’s, Sydney in February 1826), Jane/Maria seemed to spend most of those first few years either in jail or escaping from it!

Elizabeth received her certificate of freedom in August 1830. By this time, her previous description had been updated- her hair was now grey and she was wrinkled and had lost all the front teeth in her lower jaw too. She had a small hairy mole on the right side of her chin and her nose was flat and broad.