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Elizabeth Richards 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.
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Family connections for Elizabeth (Richards) are: RICHARDS Elizabeth (Richards) was born about 1769/72. She was tried w/Hannah (Bolton aliass Moore) for burglary of William (Field) in Birmingham Warwickshire at Warwick on 7 8 1787, sentenced to 7years & arrived in NSW as a convict on 3 6 1790 after a voyage of 12months on Fleet ship LADY JULIANA-a ship with 228females who easily entertained the whole crew & also sailors at Teneriffe stopover. She was sent to Norfolk Island arriving on 7 8/11 1790. She married firstly Michael (Nowland) in November 1791 in group ceremony on Norfolk Island & produced 11children. She became Free by Servitude by 1798.>>> [Some details taken from this Website] Michael (Nowland) was born in 1760. He was tried for highway robbery & horse theft, on 13 2 1783, of William (Lawrence) at Old Bailey in February 1783, sentenced to death, held at Middlesex Gaol Delivery & Newgate Gaol until reprieved to Life in the American colonies in September 1783. He was transferred to hulks on the Thames then sailed for American colonies on 30 7 1784 on MERCURY; after mutiny on the ship achieved landfall at Torbay/Torquay? Devonshire he escaped & was recaptured on 4 5 1784 at Bath Somersetshire. He escaped from gaol & was captured again & sent again to Newgate, then in January 1786 to hulk FORTUNEE at Portsmouth for 4years & arrived in NSW as a convict on 26 6 1790 after a voyage of 6months on Fleet ship SCARBOROUGH; a voyage noted for extreme brutality of prisoners with a high death rate; he was sent to Emu Plains. He was sent to Norfolk Island, arriving on 7 8 1790, seemingly on NEPTUNE. He became a farm overseer. In 1796 he owned 15acres (plot no.87 on west side of the island] on Norfolk Island. He became emancipated & was granted 15acres about 1797 which he declined in favour of return to NSW. On 30 9 1802 he was appointed Superintendent of convicts, continuing to 1806. In 1809 he was producing crops at Hawkesbury & from 25 4 1812 he operated a ferry across the Hawkesbury River between Wilberforce & Pitt Town. In 1816 he was granted land at Seven Hills. He was recorded as a settler in 1822 & 1824. He was also appointed as constable for Lower Wilberforce until he was dismissed for drunkenness leading? to his death on 31 10 1828 age about68 at Wilberforce & was buried at St Johns CofE Wilberforce, where his wife was later buried with him. [Some details taken from this Website] .. >>>Elizabeth (Richards) married secondly Peter (Vaughan) emancipist on 7 9 1829 with permission at St Matthews CofE Windsor. She died on 8 8 1862 age83 mother of 11known children & was buried with her first husband at Wilberforce. Peter (Vaughan) was born in 1802, maybe in Ireland, & became a stable boy/shoemaker. He was tried for shop breaking & stealing w/2others at Glasgow court of justiciary, sentenced to 14years & arrived in NSW as a convict on 21 1 1820 after a voyage of 4months on ELIZA & was sent to Emu Plains. [Some details taken from this Website] REFERENCES: Craig James Smee 'Births and Baptisms Marriages and Defacto Relationships Deaths and Burials New South Wales 1788-1830' ..a complete listing from church & other records in the early colony. Irene Schaffer & Thelma McKay 'Exiled Three Times Over! Profiles of Norfolk Islanders Exiled in Van Diemens Land 1807-1813' James Hugh Donohoe 'Norfolk Island 1788-1813-The People and Their Families' Reg Wright 'Forgotten Generation of Norfolk Island & Van Diemens Land'
Hannah Bolon, alias Moore, and Elizabeth Richards, for a burglary in the house of William Field, of Birmingham ; Joseph Penn, for a burglary in the house of William Humphreys of Bire mingham ; Coventry Standard, 13 Aug 1787
Convicted at the Warwick Assizes on the 7 Aug 1787 with Hannah Bolton for burglary in the house of William Humphries of Birmingham.
Elizabeth Richards was tried along with Hannah Bolton for ‘burglary of a house in Birmingham'. C1791: Elizabeth was at Norfolk Island. Married or had a relationship with Michael Nowlan/Nowland and they had 9 children. Michael Nowlan died in 1828 and Elizabeth then married Peter Vaughan (Eliza 1819). Peter was 27 and Elizabeth was 56. 8/8/1852: Elizabeth died aged 77 at Wilberforce, NSW, and was buried in adjoining graves with her first husband. She was listed in the church register as Elizabeth Nowland.