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Eliza Madden was transported on the Pyramus, departing 20th Aug 1836 and arriving 14th Dec 1836 with 120 passengers.
Pyramus (generic)References
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Convict Notes
Absconded Madden Eliza, Pyramus (2) 26, King's County, nursery maid, 5 feet 1 inch, ruddy and freckled comp., light brown hair, blueish eyes, scar inside third finger of right hand, scar left collar bone, from A. Cluxton, Sydney, since July 14. NSW Govt Gazette, 22 July 1840.
Eliza Healy, alias Madden, was convicted of stealing a pair of trowsers, and was sentenced to nine months' labour in Sydney gaol. Sydney Morning Herald, 9 Feb 1850. Eliza Healy,the frequency of whoso offences has made her notorious, was charged with larceny. James Garvey, of William street, dealer, deposed that on Wednesday the prisoner came to his shop with a man, who purchased and paid for a pair of boots; while attending to his customer, witness also saw prisoner take down a pair of boots and put them under her shawl ; when she was about to leave he advised her to put down the boots she had under her shawl, and while he was speaking they fell at her feet : he detained her, and gave her into custody. Prisoner submitted herself to the summary jurisdiction of the Bench, who convicted her and passed a sentence of two months' Imprisonment with hard labour. Sydney Morning Herald, 19 Sep 1857.
Eliza Madden, alias ElizaHealy, and Anne Evans, were charged with stealing a pair of boots from a man named Earl, a shoe-maker in Market-street; A man named John Lieher, a dealer, living in Fort-street, deposed to buying the boots from the prisoners, who went into Mr. Earl's shop for the purpose of selling a shawl. They were remanded till Wednesday. The Australian, 15 May 1845. Eliza Madden and Ann Evans, stealing, guilty, six months to the Factory, the last week in each month to solitary confinement ; The Australian, 19 June 1845. Eliza Madden, free by servitude, an old visitor of the court, pleaded guilty to a charge of stealing 2 shawls, and it appearing that she had been 4 times in custody on similar charges of larceny, for each of which she had been sent either to the gaol or factory for periods varying from one week to six months, she was now ordered to be sent to the Female Factory, and kept to hard labour, for two years. Bell’s Life in Sydney, 7 Nov 1846.
On Tuesday Eliza Madden, per Pyramus, seven years, was convicted of absconding from her assigned service in George-street, and was sentenced to the third class for two months and then being an arraigned on a charge of assaulting a fellow servant in a most ferocious manner and threatening to serve her out, was convicted and sentenced to six months in the third class, in addition to her former sentence. As it is quite a common practice with such ladies as Eliza Madden to serve out their fellow servants who may happen to offend them, and immediately after to " bolt;" it is hoped that the bench will serve each of them in the same stile as she has been dealt with. It is the opinion of some parties well versed in the details of convict discipline, that all assaults by male convicts ought to be visited with corporal punishment as part of the sentence, and that in the case of the same offence being committed by females, solitary confinement in the cells at the commencement, and termination of the sentence to the third class ought to be in every case awarded. Sydney Gazette, 26 Dec 1839.
NSW Convict Index. Eliza Madden, per Pyramus, 1836, Cert Freedom, No 48/0193, 25 Apr 1848. TL 43/211. Wife of Patrick Healy, per Lady McNaughten (1835), fbs (as stated on her CF).
Convict Applications to Marry. Patrick Healy, per Lady McNaughten, age 31, 7 years, Free; and Eliza Madden, per Pyramus (2), age 30, 7 years, Bond. Date of permission, 12 Dec 1844, Parramatta, requested by Revd. H H Bobart.
Irish Convict Database by Peter Mayberry. Eliza Madden, age on arrival, 22, per Pyramus (2), 1836, Tried at Tipperary, 1836, 7 years, for Shoplifting. Former convictions, None. DOB 1814, native place, Kings Co. Single, Catholic. Nurse maid kitchen maid.