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Transportation
Eleanor Rice was transported on the Northampton, departing 30th Nov 1814 and arriving 18th Jun 1815 with 112 passengers.
Northampton (generic)References
| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 87, Class and Piece Number HO11/2, Page Number 192 |
| 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
Convict Indents; Trade; Servant Year of Birth; abt. 1787
Eleanor Rice was aged about 25 at her trial (from OB record). She was already married when living in England. She was Irish - born Limerick (from her death certificate, and Northampton indent) OLD BAILEY TRIAL 20 April 1814 ELEANOR RICE was indicted for feloniously breaking and entering the dwelling-house of Dennis Francis Humbert , he and others of his family being therein, about the hour of three in the afternoon, on the 19th of March , and stealing therein three spencers, value 30 s. a pelisse, value 15 s. a scarf, value 7 s. a frock, value 7 s. a silk handkerchief, value 1 s. a pair of gloves, value 1 s. a yard of silk, value 2 s. two yards of silk, value 2 s. and half a yard of silk netting, value 1 s. the property of Dennis Francis Humbert. DENNIS FRANCIS HUMBERT . I am a coal merchant ; I live in Wellclose-square, in the parish of St. George in the East . On the 19th of March, while we were at dinner, about half past three o'clock in the afternoon, and the door was upon the latch; the prisoner contrived to come in the house unobserved; we were then removing from one house to another, that was the reason for the door being upon the latch. I observed somebody going out; I asked my servant if that was her going out; she answered, no, here I am. I told her to go and see who it was; she did, and in about twenty-five yards from the door she stopped the prisoner. She had my daughter's attire in her apron. JOHN TURNBRIDGE . I am an officer. The articles in the indictment I found upon the prisoner's person. ESTHER MARIA HUMBERT. The scarf is mine; the whole of the articles were in my drawer in the bed room up two pair of stairs. I only saw the prisoner go out of the house. PRISONER'S DEFENCE. I was in distress; my husband had left me. I was told my husband lodged in this house. A woman took me to this house to see for my husband in the three pair of stairs. The woman that was with me gave me the bundle; I being in liquor, took it. William Welch who arrived "Atlas" in 1802 was also Irish, Tried at Rathdrum, Co Wicklow. After marriage they lived at Cawdor - 1823 Muster. 1828 lived at Luddenham estate, Bringelly - Ellen aged 35, William 50. Children Elizabeth aged 12, Sarah aged 19, jane aged 8, William 2, John 6 months. 2 years later James was born. 1832 daughter Elizabeth married Henry Hughes of Sutton Forest, with consent of her parens (aged 16). (Elizabeth had left him by 1837, taking two children, and moved in with Thomas Hollands, proceeding to have 9 Hollands children. Eventually after her first husband died in 1851 she married Thomas Hollands in 1860.) Ellen and William Welch became known as "Walsh" and lived as farmers at Mittagong. William died in 1861 and Ellen on 30 November 1874. Her death certificate, completed by husband of a granddaughter, gave her maiden name as "Cushion". All her children had survived her.
Trial date 20 April 1814 Old Bailey Middlsex London Trial reference No. t181404020-82