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Transportation
Elizabeth Fitzgerald was transported on the Lady Penrhyn, Scarborough And Alexander, departing 31st Dec 1786 and arriving 22nd Jan 1788 with 356 passengers.
Lady Penrhyn, Scarborough And AlexanderReferences
| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 87, Class and Piece Number HO11/1, Page Number 11 (7) |
| 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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Old Bailey Online ELIZABETH FITZGERALD. Theft; shoplifting. 13th December 1786 Text type Trial account Defendants ELIZABETH FITZGERALD Offences Theft > Shoplifting Session Date 13th December 1786 Reference Number t17861213-106 Verdicts Guilty > Theft under 5s Punishments Transportation 107. ELIZABETH FITZGERALD was indicted for feloniously stealing, on the 13th day of November last, one cotton gown, value 7 s. the property of Thomas Clark , privily in his shop . HENRY CLARK sworn. I am brother and shopman to Thomas Clark , No. 4, in High-street, St. Giles's , a pawnbroker ; the 3d of last November, about half past seven in the evening, the prisoner came in and asked for a handkerchief in the name of Moreing; there was another customer in the shop; the boy went up to look for it, and he could not find it; there was a little girl playing with a child; and the prisoner pretended to faint away; I sent the little girl for some cold water, in the mean time my brother went up to look for it; I was in the shop all the time while he was looking for it; she said, it was not her's, she would go and ask the woman about it; and she went out; presently my brother came down and he missed the gown directly; it was a cotton gown; and we suspected the prisoner, as she was sitting close by; and I found the gown in Denmark-street in a quarter of an hour after, at a pawnbroker's; and I desired them to stop the person if she came again; the next morning she was stopped. WILLIAM ALDRIDGE sworn. This cotton gown I received of the prisoner the 13th of November, about eight at night; I lent five shillings upon it; I am sure it was the prisoner that pledged it; I have known her some time; I asked her whose gown it was; she said, it was not her's, but a servant maid, who lodged where she did, got her to bring it for her; it has been in my possession ever since. (Deposed to by Henry Clark .) Did you see her take it? - No. Did you see her meddle with it all? - No. Was there any body else in the shop? - A little girl of ours playing with the child. What may be the value of it? - Seven shillings. PRISONER's DEFENCE. It was an hour after the gown was pawned before I came for this handkerchief; the woman gave it me to pawn, and gave me a shilling to fetch the handkerchief: Mr. Aldridge can give me a character. Aldridge. I had rather not. GUILTY, 4 s. 10 d. Transported for seven years . Tried by the second Middlesex Jury before Mr. RECORDER.
Mother of Sarah Wright and twin girls Mary Ann and Susannah Mitchell.