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Personal Information
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Voyage
Transportation
Elizabeth Roster 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 16 |
| 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
ELIZABETH ROSTER was indicted for burglariously breaking and entering the dwelling house of Ann Walker, widow, about the hour of six in the night, on the 26th of December last, and burglariously stealing therein a pair of linen sheets, value 2 s. a silk bonnet, value 2 s. three night caps, value 6 d. a silk stomacher, value 1 d. a silk handkerchief, value 2 d. a pillow bier, value 2 d. her property. She was found GUILTY, Of the stealing, but not of the burglary, and sentenced to Transportation for seven years. On 14 March 1789 she was sent from Newgate Gaol for embarkation on the "Lady Juliana" transport, part of Second Fleet, age given as 23. Elizabeth Roster married John Anderson ("Scarborough" First Fleet) on 25 December 1790 by banns by Rev Richard Johnson, Chaplain and entered in the St Philips Church of England, Sydney register. John signed and Elizabeth marked the register with a cross. Witnesses were William "Snablia" (Snaillam?) who signed, and George Clayton who marked with a cross. From mid 1791 they were farming a 50 acre land grant at The Ponds. In October 1796 Elizabeth, along with William Norman (probably William Orman, "Surprize", Second Fleet), one of the Andersons' convict servants, were charged for the murder of a neighbour, Mrs Elizabeth Williams (Elizabeth Young "Mary Ann" 1791), who had died on 19 September from multiple wounds to her head. Both were acquitted after a lengthy trial at the Sydney Court of Criminal Jurisdiction in November 1796. By mid 1800 Elizabeth and her husband had moved to a 30 acre farm at the Hawkesbury, which her husband had purchased. By 1806 they were successfully farming 130 acres in the Hawkesbury area. In February 1815 John and Elizabeth made an agreement that they would live apart and he would pay her £25 per year. However in 1816 John and Elizabeth were once again living together. On 26 February 1816 Elizabeth, along with James Stock (''Earl Cornwallis'' 1801), one of their convict servants, murdered Elizabeth's husband, John Anderson. They were both tried and convicted in June 1816. On 20 July 1816 Elizabeth Anderson and James Stock were executed for the murder. Sources: Flynn, Michael. ''The Second Fleet: Britain's Grim Convict Armada of 1790'' (1993), pp 510-12 Gillen, Mollie. ''The Founders of Australia: A Biographical Dictionary of the First Fleet'' (1989), p 9 Her trial at the Old Bailey: https://www.oldbaileyonline.org/browse.jsp?id=t17880109-37-defend377&div=t17880109-37#highlight Trial in 1816: The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser (NSW : 1803 - 1842), p. 2. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2176703
Elizabeth Roster married John Anderson, 1790 in Sydney. She murdered him in 1816