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Transportation
Elizabeth Ayres was transported on the Lady Juliana, departing 31st May 1789 and arriving 3rd Jun 1790 with 247 passengers.
Launched 1777, 401 ton barque, built at Whitby, England. Departed Portsmouth, England on 29 July 1789, via Cape of Good Hope for Port Jackson, New South Wales, Australia on 3 June 1790. 1790 voyage carried 226 female passengers (convicts)- 5 of whom died on the trip. 6 children also on board. Significant because it was the first ship to bring all female women to the Colony.
Lady JulianaReferences
| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 87, Class and Piece Number HO11/1, Page Number 18 |
| Source Description | This record is one of the entries in the British convict transportation registers 1787-1867 database compiled by State Library of Queensland from British Home Office (HO) records which are available on microfilm as part of the Australian Joint Copying Pro |
| Original Source | Great Britain. Home Office |
| Compiled By | State Library of Queensland |
| Database Source | British convict transportation registers 1787-1867 database |
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THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE OLD BAILEY ANN WOOD. ELIZABETH AYRES. Theft; grand larceny (to 1827). 24th October 1787. 834. ANN WOOD and ELIZABETH AYRES were indicted for stealing, on the 26th of September last, a cloth coat, value 20 s. a pair of black velvet breeches, value 10 s. a pair of cotton stockings, value 3 s. a pair of plaited buckles, value 3 s. the property of James Roach . JAMES ROACH sworn. I am a labourer ; I hired a lodging of the prisoner in Goldsmith's-alley for a night; I did not sleep with them; I had a bed of them, and after I was in bed, they robbed me of my clothes; I was to pay them a shilling for the lodging; I went to bed and fell in sleep, and when I awoke, I found my things were gone at half after five in the morning; when I got up, I was informed the prisoners were in custody. EDWARD TREADWAY sworn. I was the officer of the night; about half after five, the watchman brought in the prisoners at the bar; one of them had a coat in her lap; I asked her how she come by it; she said, it was her brother's, and she was going to carry it to the tailor's to be mended, that was the prisoner Ayres; I looked at the coat and saw it did not want mending; says I, this coat is stolen somewhere, I shall stop you; I searched Wood, and under her petticoats, I found this pair of breeches. CORNELIUS HARROGAN sworn. I am a watchman in Plubtree-street, St. Giles's; I asked the prisoner Ayres, what she had in her lap; she made me no answer; Wood said, it was a coat belonging to her husband, it was going to the tailor's, and I asked her what her husband was; she said, a hackney coachman; says I, this is not a hackney coachman's coat; it does not belong to him; Ayres said, her husband was a tailor, it was going to him to be mended; I took them into custody. (The coat deposed to.) PRISONER AYRES's DEFENCE. I was going home between eleven and twelve, this man had a very elderly woman; he asked us to shew him a lodging; we shewed him to one; we came out and left him, and there is a woman that laid very ill in the house where he lodged; she desired us to get up and get something to drink, and she gave us these things; I never took any notice of the man's clothes, or saw what colour they were. The prisoner Wood, said the same. ELIZABETH AYRES , ANN WOOD . GUILTY . Each Transported for seven years . Tried by the second Middlesex Jury before Mr. Justice HEATH.
Elizabeth Ayres Convicted at the Old Bailey in 1787 of clothing. Married John Cuss in 1790 in Sydney. John arrived as a convict on the Charlotte. http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/browse.jsp?id=t17871024-23-defend266&div=t17871024-23#highlight