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Transportation
Elizabeth Riley 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 | Cobley, John, The Crimes of the Lady Juliana Convicts - 1790, Library of Australian History, Sydney, 1989, pp 29-30; Flynn, Michael, The Second Fleet - Britains's Grim Convict Armada of 1790, Library of Australian History, Sydney, 1993, pp 499-501; Bateson, C, The Convict Ships, 1787-1868, 1959, p 121; Ryan, R.J., The Second Fleet Convicts, Australian Documents Library, Sydney, 1982, p 59. |
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Convict Notes
Elizabeth's daughter, Catherine Riley, was 3 years old at the time of the journey on the Lady Juliana.
Elizabeth Riley embarked the Lady Juliana with her 7 year old daughter Catherine