Elizabeth Hayward

Read historical notes at the end of surviving Sydney cove (a book) to learn about her. The story is fiction.

where was she born?

Married William Nicholls and Joseph Lowe. Had 4 children: Elizabeth 1794, Robert 1795, Margaret 1796 and George 1802. Came to Australia aged only 14 aboard the Lady Penrhyn. Was recorded that she bought a house in 1805 on Norfolk Island and died in Launceston, Van Diemen's Land aged 65.

Stole a a linen gown and a silk bonnet. She was an apprentice clog maker before she was transported.

willian nichols.ship=royal admiral. arrived N.I 22 dec 1792.departedafter oct 1796.arrived in the colony as a convict. --chez

ref'norfolk island and its first settlement. children; elizabeth haywood(nichols)/lowe. Born N.I. 2 mar 1794. departed 18 feb 1813. george haywood/lowe " " 1802 " 20 jan 1813. margaret haywood/lowe " " 1796 " " robert haywood " " 21 nov 1795 " ? adult female=elizabeth haywood.ship lady penrhyn.arrived 13 mar 1790. departed(N.I)20 jan 1813. c,m *c=arrived in the colony as a convict. *m=lived as a married person on norfolk island. child=norfolk nichols(piper) born N.I 1809.departed18 feb 1813. *lieutenant Crane's Return 1812=The squatters comprised 26 free people,including the 18 year old Elizabeth Nichols on 15 acres.... --chez

elizabeth haywood arrived N.I ship Lady Penrith 13/03/90. departed 20/01/13. *arrived in the colony as a convict. Lived as a married person on Norfolk Island. all ref: the forgotten generations,reg wright. norfolk island,raymond nobbs.chez.

part 2..The younger elizabeth haywood and Ann Brooks were the only freewomen stockholders disclosed by piper.Lieut. crane's return of august 1812 shows mother elizabeth haywood is a member of the community with children george and margaret.The woman preceeding elizabeth haywood on thir return is an elizabeth nicholls who is shown as born at norfolk is. elizabeth nicholls was the youthful mistress of captain piper and mother of norfolk nicholls or piper. Although there is no apparent order in crane's list,three year old norfolk nicholls appears immediately after 16 yr old margaret haywood and 10 yr old george haywood.Elizabeth nicholls was then the only woman holding stock,which consisted of 525 sheep,4 cattle,15 swine and 40 goats. By suitable juggling of possibilities one draws the conclusions that mother elizabeth haywood had become the wife of joseph lowe from the N.I boat crew and that her daughter elizabeth was using the nicholls surname os a long-departed father. When Joseph lowe left for port dalrymle on Lady Nelson in feb 1813 he is assumed to have travelled with elizabeth haywood and her 2 children george and margaret.Elizabeth nicholls reached V.D.L o Minstrel travelling with son norfolk piper.In 1819 elizabeth nichols became the wife of david gibson and mistress of "Pleasant Banks" at Evandale. After rearing 10 gibson children she achieved the age of 77 yrs before being buried in the Pres.Church ground in Evandale in 1872..to be continued..chez

N.I records -people who boarded lady nelson at N.I 20 jan 1813 sailing to Port Dalrymple, V.D.L Joseph Lowe. Wife=elizabeth haywood. Children=margaret haywood/lowe age 17. george haywood lowe age 11. also "Fourth Fleeter william nicholls passes at least 3 years on the island(N.I).Convict nicholls disappears from the convict records in 1796.Presumably he was the father of elizabeth hayward's eldest daughter who was known as elizabeth nicholls in the Norfolk Island records from 1810 onwards. also-"one norfolk family to cause much discussion was that of elizabeth haywood(hayward).One is bound to feel sympathy for elizabeth haywood as she arrived as a first fleet convict with a seven year sentence. In england,where she was an apprenticed clog maker,her employer prosecuted her for stealing his property consisting of..alinen gown,value 4s,a silk bonnet,value 2s,and a Bath cloth cloak,value 1s. She recieved few official notices in N>S>A,however at Port Jackson in Feb 1789 the 14yr old was sentenced to 30 lashes for insolence to the Rev. Johnson. In march 1790 elizabeth wa transferred to N.I on the illfated Sirius and did not leave until feb 1813. The victualling Book shows that a daughter Elizabeth was boen 2 march 1794 and a son robert on 21 november 1795. By feb 1805,robert was no longer on the records,but another daughter margaret was born in 1796 and a son George about 1802.George and margaret haywood appear on the stores as children in dec.1810,but neither mother nor daughter elizabeth haywood are named.Earlier in the year captain piper had listed the 2 elizabeths(heywood) in a return of "settlers and landholders".One was shown as a time expired convict and the other a free woman owning 10 sheep and a cow..to be continued..chez

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John Hayward on 3rd February 2012

Mira, I read them in a book called " Women of Botony Bay " The youngest Male in the first fleet 1788 was a 12 year old boy BUT there was an 11 year old sent to Van Diemans Land. If you have any more information re Elizabeth Hayward I would be interested. John