Elizabeth Cook

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Beth Taylor on 3rd February 2026

TIMELINE NOTES: BC: 1794 Sentenced: 15/09/1813 Middlesex [see trial record below] to transportation for 7 years Crime: Stealing to the value of 39 shillings only Previous Occupation: Servant Age on Convict Indent: 20 1813 - ELIZABETH COOK, Theft > theft from a specified place, 15th September 1813. 903. ELIZABETH COOK was indicted for feloniously stealing, on the 16th of August, a gold ring, value 14 s. a thimble, value 6 d. a gown, value 5 s. three petticoats, value 3 s. six caps, value 3 s. seven children's shirts, value 3 s. 6 d. a frill, 6 d. a silver spoon, value 12 s. and one shilling, the property of John Parker, in his dwelling-house. JOHN PARKER. I am a house keeper; I live at No. 2, New-road, St. George's in the East. The prisoner was my servant ; I applied at the office for a search-warrant; I searched her box, and in the prisoner's pocket I found a shilling that I had marked in the morning; she had taken it out of my breeches pocket; I also found a gold ring, that was my property; I saw several things taken out of her box that is not in the indictment. JOHN GRIFFITHS. I searched the prisoner's box; I found this property now produced, and in her pocket the gold ring was, in her pocket-book, in her pocket, one shilling and a silver thimble. Prosecutor. The ring was my wife's ring, it was missed the day that she died, or the day after; she died on the 10th of July; I found it on the prisoner on the 16th of August. MARTHA PARKER. I am the daughter of the prosecutor. Q. Look at that property, what is it - A. A petticoat, five frocks, seven infant's shirts, a muslin gown, and other things; they were my mother's property. GUILTY, aged 19, Of stealing to the value of 39 s. only. Transported for Seven Years. First Middlesex jury, before Mr. Justice Heath. (Source: Old Bailey on-line http://www.oldbaileyonline.org ) Ticket of Leave 933; Certificate of Freedom 476 (indent) 1814 Muster: Elizabeth COOK, Brox, con, off stores, to Mr Moore, Liverpool (4095) 1822 Muster: Elizabeth COOK, FBS, 7 years, housekeeper, Sydney (A04518) 1823-1825 Muster: Elizabeth COOK, FS, Brox 1814, 7 years, single, Sydney (16577) 1828 Census: Elizabeth COOK, 34, FBS, Brox, 7 years, prot, servant to John Hall, Gloucester St Sydney (C2225) NSW BDM: No record of marriage or death on Elizabeth found. SRNSW Col Sec Papers: No record found. “Women of Botany Bay" - page 89 - Elizabeth Cook …. transported on the “Broxbornebury”. Elizabeth Cook, a 20 year-old servant showed little evidence of the “delicacy becoming a female” & certainly none of the milk of human kindness. Housekeeper for a family in the New Road St Georges, her master obtained a search warrant the day his wife died. She had been attended by Elizabeth Cook who had removed the ring from her dying mistress’ finger & had stolen many of her belongings. The daughter of the dead woman identified her mother’s possessions & Elizabeth Cook joined the women destined for Botany Bay. Jess' Girls - SAG:  1814 - Muster  1818 - in public factory (FF?)  1822 - living Cumberland St  1825 - Muster  1828 - Census Notes from the book “Journey to a New Life…” the story of the ships Emu & Broxbornebury by Elizabeth Hook (3rd ed. 2014). I am the author & can be contacted on tbeth3370@gmail.com for further info

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Maureen Withey on 31st January 2023

Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 31 January 2023), September 1813, trial of ELIZABETH COOK (t18130915-78). ELIZABETH COOK, Theft > theft from a specified place, 15th September 1813. 903. ELIZABETH COOK was indicted for feloniously stealing, on the 16th of August , a gold ring, value 14 s. a thimble, value 6 d. a gown, value 5 s. three petticoats, value 3 s. six caps, value 3 s. seven children's shirts, value 3 s. 6 d. a frill, 6 d. a silver spoon, value 12 s. and one shilling, the property of John Parker , in his dwelling-house . JOHN PARKER . I am a house keeper; I live at No. 2, New-road, St. George's in the East . The prisoner was my servant ; I applied at the office for a search-warrant; I searched her box, and in the prisoner's pocket I found a shilling that I had marked in the morning; she had taken it out of my breeches pocket; I also found a gold ring, that was my property; I saw several things taken out of her box that is not in the indictment. JOHN GRIFFITHS . I searched the prisoner's box; I found this property now produced, and in her pocket the gold ring was, in her pocket-book, in her pocket, one shilling and a silver thimble. Prosecutor. The ring was my wife's ring, it was missed the day that she died, or the day after; she died on the 10th of July; I found it on the prisoner on the 16th of August. MARTHA PARKER . I am the daughter of the prosecutor. Q. Look at that property, what is it - A. A petticoat, five frocks, seven infant's shirts, a muslin gown, and other things; they were my mother's property. GUILTY, aged 19, Of stealing to the value of 39 s. only . Transported for Seven Years . First Middlesex jury, before Mr. Justice Heath.

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Helen Muriel on 31st January 2023

Elizabeth Cook had a daughter Mary Ann to convict William Makepeace on 19 July 1815. Mary Ann was baptised on 20 August 1815 at St Phillps In Sydney. William Makepeace also had a daughter Mary Ann to his wife Ann Terrett (also a convict on the Broxbornebury) on 21 October of the same year 1815 in Liverpool. In the 1828 Census, Elizabeth Cook was working as a servant to John Hill Gloucester House in Sydney. There is no mention of her daughter Mary Ann Makepeace in any records.

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jennifer burgess on 15th August 2022

It appears the death is a different Elizabeth Cook as Elizabeth Cook appears on 1828 muster F/S age 34 years, servant at Gloucester St Sydney, other surnames Hall, Hull

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jennifer burgess on 27th July 2022

There is a death for Elizabeth Cook 1817 age 43 that could be this Elizabeth.