Elizabeth Barnes

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Summary

Born
Jan 1767
Conviction
Theft - larceny
Departure
May 1789
Arrival
Jun 1790
Death
Jan 1794
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Personal Information

Name: Elizabeth Barnes
Gender: Female
Born: 1st Jan 1767
Death: 1st Jan 1794
Age at death: 27
Occupation: Prostitute

Crime

Convicted at: Middlesex Gaol Delivery
Sentence term: 7 years

Voyage

Departed: 31st May 1789
Arrival: 3rd Jun 1790
Place of Arrival: New South Wales

Transportation

Elizabeth Barnes 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 JulianaLady Juliana

References

Primary SourceAustralian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 87, Class and Piece Number HO11/1, Page Number 17 (10)
Source DescriptionThis 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 SourceGreat Britain. Home Office
Compiled ByState Library of Queensland
Database SourceBritish convict transportation registers 1787-1867 database

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Convict Notes

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on 21st February 2024

Old Bailey Online ELIZABETH BARNES. Theft; theft from a specified place. 12th September 1787 Text type Trial account Defendants ELIZABETH BARNES Offences Theft > Theft from place Session Date 12th September 1787 Reference Number t17870912-98 Verdicts Guilty Punishments Transportation 768. ELIZABETH BARNES was indicted for stealing, on the 19th day of July , one wooden trunk, value 6 d. one cotton gown, value 15 s. one linen shift, value 4 s. three pair of cotton stockings, value 9 s. one cotton shawl, value 5 s. one silk bonnet, value 2 s. two linen caps, value 2 s. one pair of gloves, value 6 d. one muslin apron, value 2 s. one locket set in gold, value 5 s. one pair of gold ear-rings, value 7 s. one cloth riding habit, value 20 s. and one morocco leather pocketbook, value 6 d. the goods of Ann White spinster , in the dwelling-house of Mary Oliver , Widow . ANN WHITE , spinster, sworn. I did live in Eagle-court, White-hart-yard ; I lodged with one Mary Oliver ; I lost my trunk, and all my linen; all the things contained in the indictment were in it; they were most of them new; she said she sold them. EDWARD TREADWAY sworn. I know nothing further, than that I had a warrant to apprehend the prisoner, and I took her into custody, and found the shawl and the pocket-book upon her; it was on the 20th of July. Court to prosecutrix. When did you lose your property? - On the 19th. Treadway. The pocket-bok had six duplicates in it; one was of a shawl, and two others of a bonnet and an apron, I found nothing more. PRISONER's DEFENCE. My father is dead, my mother is alive; the woman of this house got me away from them, and made me go out of nights to look for money, and pick up gentlemen, and give the money to her; her name was Oliver; this woman lived there, and she used to dress me up in clothes, and that young woman to go out to look for money, the same as I did; we both lived and lodged in the house, and she promised me these things for some money I got the night before; she used me very ill, and I left her to get a place of service. GUILTY . Transported for seven years . Tried by the first Middlesex Jury before Mr. Justice GROSE.

Penny-Lyn Beale avatar
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on 10th October 2021

Old Sydney Burial Ground Elizabeth Barnes. Burial; 9 April 1794. Convict

Eric Harry Daly avatar
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on 5th January 2013

Elizabeth Barnes Convicted at Middlesex in 1787 of theft of a trunk of clothing. Cohabited with William Henry Waterhouse, who arrived as a convict on the Alexander. Children: Maria 1791 (registered as both Barnes and Waterhouse), Rebecca Barnes 1793. http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/browse.jsp?id=t17870912-98-defend930&div=t17870912-98#highlight