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Personal Information
Crime
Voyage
Transportation
Elizabeth Mcbride was transported on the Elizabeth And Henry, departing 14th Sep 1846 and arriving 4th Jan 1847 with 171 passengers.
Built 1845. Wood barque of 534 Tons.
Elizabeth And Henry (generic)References
| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 92, Class and Piece Number HO11/15, Page Number 117 (60) |
| 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
When Elizabeth Campbell McBride was born on 19 August 1819 in Greenock, Renfrewshire, Scotland her father, John was 44, and her mother Mary McKinnon, was 42. She married David Urquhart and they had one daughter, Mary. She then married James Duncan and they had three children together. She died on 25 April 1897 in Hobart, Tasmania, having lived a long life of 77 years. Elizabeth had two brothers Peter 1804, John 1813 and a sister Catherine McBride 1816. John McBride and his wife Margaret (Duncan) in 1851 are in Gorbals, Lanark, Scotland with Mary Urquhart (Niece) and Mary McBride (Mother). John is working as a block maker. In the 1861 census he is with his wife Margaret and a niece Gena (Grace) Margaret Bell in Glasgow working as a saw sharper in a saw mill. Elizabeth was convicted 26 Apr 1846 of theft and being habite and sailed on Elizabeth and Henry reaching Van Diemen’s Land Sept 1846. From her convict record we know that Elizabeth was 5ft 2½ inches tall with brown hair, grey eyes and worked as a housemaid. Her husband David Urquhart was a sailor, and they had one child Mary. Elizabeth was convicted of stealing a bed quilt to use as a shawl. This wasn’t her first offence. She had convictions for theft in Aug 1843 and Oct 1844. In Dec 1848 while still serving her original transportation sentence she was convicted for ‘Feloniously stealing a pair of linen sheets’ she got 12 months hard labour in the Female Factory. Some of this was remitted and she was ‘out’ in Oct 1849. Then Feb 1850 more hard labour at the Female Factory Cascade for having a ‘man in her mistresses (sic) house without authority of master’. This was probably James Duncan as they had a son William in 1853; they married in 1862. Elizabeth had her Ticket of Leave in Jan 1851 and declared free May 1853. The ‘marriage’ to fellow former convict and Scot James Duncan was bigamous as David Urquhart was still alive. James and Elizabeth had two daughters, Elizabeth and Agnes Duncan and a son William who died as a child. According to family oral history David Urquhart, her first husband, on a trip to Hobart asked her to return with him to Scotland and she refused, saying ‘Go back to the one who took you from me' Parish: Gorbals; ED: 15A; Page: 7; Line: 15; Roll: CSSCT1851_164; Year: 1851 Parish: Glasgow St George; ED: 72; Page: 1; Line: 2; Roll: CSSCT1861_107 Tasmanian Archives https://linctas.ent.sirsidynix.net.au/client/en_AU/names/search/results?qu=mcbride&qu=elizabeth&qf=NI_INDEX Record+type Convicts Convicts Crown Office Precognition 1846 Precognition against Elizabeth McBride or Urquhart. National Records of Scotland. AD14/46/411 Tasmanian Archives http://search.archives.tas.gov.au/ImageViewer/image_viewer.htm?CON41-1-11,174,82,F,60