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Transportation
Elizabeth Goslin 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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Convict Notes
Old Bailey Online ELIZABETH GOSLING. Theft; theft from a specified place. 24th October 1787. Text type Trial account Defendants ELIZABETH GOSLING Offences Theft > Theft from place Session Date 24th October 1787 Reference Number t17871024-48 Verdicts Guilty Punishments Transportation 859. ELIZABETH GOSLING was indicted for stealing, on the 14th of September , one cotton bed quilt, value 18 d. a linen sheet, value 6 d. the property of Bridget Ryan , widow , in a lodging-room . BRIDGET RYAN sworn. I let a ready-furnished lodging to the prisoner, at 3 s. a week, in Short's garden ; I believe it is three weeks ago I missed the things in the indictment; they were part of the furniture that was let; I saw them the day she took the lodging. WILLIAM THURSTON sworn. I am servant to a pawnbroker; I produced a sheet and quilt that were pawned by a girl; I know the girl; she is not here; I do not know where to find her; they were pawned the 13th of August, and the 14th of September; they have been in my possession ever since. (Deposed to.) THOMAS MANS sworn. I apprehended the prisoner, and found four duplicates upon her; I have two of them. PRISONER's DEFENCE. I gave her one part of her property in the office; I never gave up my apartment till she took me to the office. GUILTY . Transported for seven years . Tried by the first Middlesex Jury, before Mr. Justice HEATH.
Elizabeth Goslin(g) was sentenced to 7 years transportation on 24 Oct 1787 at the Old Bailey for stealing a cotton bed quilt and a linen sheet, she married Daniel Spencer (Charlotte 1788) on 26 Sep 1790 at Rose Hill, NSW.