Elizabeth Lloyd

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Penny-Lyn Beale on 24th October 2024

1815 - St. John's Parramatta, Marriages No; 453. Henry Taylor. [age] 35. Ship; Ann of the Parish of St Johns & Elizabeth Lloyd. [age] abt. 40. Ship; Speke Married in the Church by Banns. Clergyman; Benjamin Vale. Date; 12 February 1815 1816 - Settler & Convict Lists. Wife to H Taylor

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Tony Beale on 21st February 2021

Old bailey online (DOB from here) 462. ELIZABETH LLOYD was indicted for burglariously breaking and entering the dwelling house of Philip Winsor , about the hour of three at night on the 23d of July , and burglariously stealing therein, five pair of silk stockings, value 20 s. three pair of worsted stockings, value 5 s, a pair of shoes, value 2 s. a brush, value 2 d. a saw, value 6 d. an umbrella, value 6 d. a petticoat, value 1 s. 6 d. a frock, value 2 d. a wash hand bason, value 10 d. a brown pan, value 1 s. and eighteen pound weight of beef, value 9 s. the property of Philip Winsor . PHILIP WINSOR sworn. I live at No. 12, Parliament street . On the night of the 23d of July last, about a quarter past three in the morning, I heard the spring of a watchman's rattle, I got out of bed and went to the front window, I slid the window up and looked out, I saw the prisoner at the bar between two watchmen at the adjoining steps. No. 13; the watchman informed me they saw her come up from my area, with a large pan of salt beef; knowing I had such a thing in the house the night before, I desired them to keep the woman till I came down and examined the bottom part of the house; when I came down to the bottom part of the house I found the entrance of the area window to the house had been broke open, and two squares of glass had been broke into one. Q. Was the wood work broke. - A. Yes, the centre piece of the wood that parts the two squares were broken. Q. Were there any outside shutters to it. - A.None. Q. When did you see that last on the evening before. - A. About eight or nine o'clock. Q. Was it perfectly secure, or a rotten frame. - A. It was a very good frame, and perfectly found the night before; I found likewise five pair of silk stockings gone, which laid in a bason in a pink dye, three pair of boys worsted stockings, a pair of boys shoes, a blacking brush, and a bottle in which blacking had been in, a saw, and the rims of an umbrella, all these things were below stairs in the lobby; there was a door to the kitchen, but that was not fastened. Q. I suppose they could have got up stairs. - A. Yes, they might have gone to any part of the house whatever; about eight o'clock the next morning we found there was a flannel petticoat missing belonging to my wife, I went to the watchhouse and the constable found it on her. Q. When the watchman took the woman did you go to her. - A. Yes, I went to the watchman, and saw the woman with his property on her, except the petticoat, which was afterwards found at the watchhouse. Q. Did you know any thing of the prisoner before. - A. I saw her on a step of a gentleman's door in the same street, a week or a few days before. Prisoner. I want to know what you found upon me. - A. There were six pair of silk stockings we out of the dye, tied up under your petticoats. THOMAS BRADLEY sworn. I am a patrol in Parliament street, I was on that division that night. On the 24th of July in the morning, about a quarter past three, I was going down Parliament street. I heard a rattle spring, I went up to it; when I came up I saw these articles that are here laying on the steps next door to Mr. Winsor's, I passed these things that were on the step, I went to where the watchman and the woman was, I took five pair of silk stockings, they were tied to her apron string and under her apron, they were wet. DAVID MURRAY sworn. Q. You are a watchman in Parliament street. - A. Yes, past three o'clock in the morning on the 24th of July, I saw the prisoner at the bar stand at the area gate No. 12, Parliament street, she was outside the railing when I first saw her, I saw her afterwards go down in that area, and she came up again almost directly; after she came up she removed something from the grating of the steps to the door No. 13, I directly went to see what she was doing of; when she saw me coming she ran away and left the things, I ran and laid hold of her and brought her back; when I came up to the door I saw this pan stand on the steps full of salt beef, with a white wash hand bason with three pair of silk stockings, three pair of worsted stockings, I blacking brush, and a pair of boys' shoes, an old umbrella frame and a saw she had got in her hand; I then sprang my rattle, which assembled several more watchmen and patrols, I called to Mr. Winsor, he came down and owned the things. JOHN MOORE sworn. I was constable of the night, the prisoner was brought to the watchhouse, I found the petticoat on her. DAVID SQUIRE sworn. On the 24th of July I heard the spring of the rattle, I found the prisoner and the watchman near the next door, I saw the pan stand on the steps, I heard Mr. Winsor say there were some silk stockings missing, I put my hand to the side of the prisoner, and I said I supposed they were in the bundle of wet linen she had there, the patrol took them from her. MRS. WINSOR sworn. I know these things to be my husband's and my own property, I left them below stairs on the overnight, I recollect seeing them all in the evening. Prisoner's Defence. I found these things outside of the house. Court. That could not be, how came you to put the stockings under your apron, they were found under your apron, and the petticoat was found on you. A. The stockings I took out of the washhand bason, and the petticoat also. GUILTY - DEATH , aged 42. First Middlesex Jury, before Mr. Recorder. New South Wales, Australia, Certificates of Freedom, 28/2/1811 cert no 192/266 At Sydney