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Elizabeth Pennington was transported on the Lady Juliana, departing 31st May 1789 and arriving 3rd Jun 1790 with 247 passengers.
Launched 1777, 401 ton barque, built at Whitby, England. Departed Portsmouth, England on 29 July 1789, via Cape of Good Hope for Port Jackson, New South Wales, Australia on 3 June 1790. 1790 voyage carried 226 female passengers (convicts)- 5 of whom died on the trip. 6 children also on board. Significant because it was the first ship to bring all female women to the Colony.
Lady JulianaReferences
| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 87, Class and Piece Number HO11/1, Page Number 15 (9) |
| 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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Old Bailey Online ELIZABETH PENNINGTON. Theft; grand larceny (to 1827). 12th September 1787. Text type Trial account Defendants ELIZABETH PENNINGTON Offences Theft > Grand larceny Session Date 12th September 1787 Reference Number t17870912-56 Verdicts Guilty Punishments Transportation 726. ELIZABETH PENNINGTON was indicted for stealing, on the 6th of September , one copper tea kettle, value 5 s. the goods of Samuel Pritchard . SAMUEL PRITCHARD sworn. I keep a public house , the White-bear, in great Eastcheap ; on the 6th of this month, I lost a kettle off the fire; it was about six in the evening; my wife was at tea, and the kettle was on the fire in the tap room; the prisoner took it with the hot water in it, and the handle was so hot, that I could hardly hold it when I took it from her; I run after her, and took her within six yards of my own door, with the kettle in her hand, and she offered me half a crown to let her go about her business; here is the kettle, it is mine. PRUDENCE SCRIVEN sworn. I am the maid of this house; I was coming from the sink to get some water out of the kettle, and I saw this woman with it in her hand going out, and she bid me good night; I had seen her once before, and she had called for a pint of beer; I told my master, and he ran after her, and took her. PRISONER's DEFENCE. I had been drinking, and did not know what I was about. GUILTY . Transported for seven years . Tried by the London Jury before Mr. RECORDER.