Eliza Moran

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Maureen Withey on 16th August 2020

Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 16 August 2020), May 1812, trial of ELIZA MOREN (t18120513-29). ELIZA MOREN, Theft > grand larceny, 13th May 1812. 457. ELIZA MOREN was indicted for feloniously stealing, on the 28th of April , a sheet, value 3 s. a pair of stockings, value 1 s. and a shawl, value 1 s. the property of Catherine Duggen . CATHERINE DUGGEN . I live in Golden-lane . The prisoner lived servant with me between four and five months, she left me ten week ago yesterday Q. After she had left your service did you miss any thing - A. I missed many things before she went away. Q. I suppose you have some of the things here have not you - A. Some of them. THOMAS WITWORTH . I am an apprentice to Mr. Gascoyne, pawnbroker, 104, White-Cross street. On the 6th of January the prisoner came to our shop and pledged a sheet for three shillings, this is the sheet. Prosecutrix. It is my sheet; the prisoner lived with me in January last. I missed a sheet before she went away. THOMAS DUTTON . I am shopman to Mr. Crouch, pawnbroker, in Fore-street. I produce a shawl, I took it in pledge on the 28th of March, of one of the witnesses that is here of the name of Duffy. MARGARET DUFFY . The prisoner when she left the service of the prosecutrix, she came to live with me; then in the course of eight or nine days after she was short of money, she told me to pawn a shawl and a gown. I pawned them at Mr. Crouch's, and brought the money to her. Prosecutrix. The shawl is mine. Prisoner's Defence. I bought the shawl with the money I got for my Christmas box, I bought the sheet in Brick-lane, for four shillings and sixpence, I thought as I had not a box to put it in, it was safer to put it in pawn; she never missed a sheet until after my duplicates were found. The constable took all my duplicates from me. My mistress never missed a sheet. GUILTY , aged 24. Transported for Seven Years . Second Middlesex jury, before Mr. Justice Grose. ------------------------------------------------------ Colonial Secretary Index. MOORE, Elizabeth. Per "Wanstead", 1814 1818 Apr 6,9 - Re permission to marry at Sydney (Reel 6006; 4/3498 p.136) --------------------------------------------------- List of persons praying His Excellency's permission to have their names published in church in order to their being married Sydney 6 April 1818,.. Thomas Rice, convict per Fortune 2nd, Elizabeth Moore, convict per Wanstead. Copies of Letters Sent Within The Colony, 1814-1827. -------------------------------------------------- 1828 NSW Census Index. Thomas Rice, age 36, T.L. Fortune (2) 1813, Life, catholic, Dairyman, resides at Philip St., Sydney. Holds 30 acres of land, all cleared. Has 75 cattle. Thomas Jun. Rice, age 13, Born in colony, apprentice to Dock yard. John, 10, B.C. James, 8, B.C. William, 4, B.C. Mary Ann, age 4 months, B.C. Also listed: Elizabeth Moore, age 38, F.S. Wanstead, 1812, 7 years, catholic, housekeeper, Thomas Rice, Phillip Street, Sydney. -------------------------------------------------- On the 18th instant, Elizabeth, wife of Mr. Thomas Rice, an old respected inhabitant of Phillip-street, Sydney, aged sixty-nine years. Sydney Morning Herald, 19 Mar 1858 -------------------------------------------------- Death. On the 22nd instant, at his residence, Phillip-street, Mr. Thomas Rice, in the 75th year of his age, deeply regretted by a large circle of friends. Sydney Morning Herald Mon 23 Jan 1860