Elizabeth Stallard

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D Wong on 21st July 2020

Bath Chronicle and Weekly Gazette Somerset, England 26 Jan 1815 Sessions.___Sentences of the prisoners at the late Wells Sessions.—G. Taylor for stealing bacon : Jas. Lewis, for grand larceny ; Mary and Elizabeth Stallard, for stealing bottles, to be transported for seven years. Elizabeth was listed as 18 years old on arrival (Ancestry Convict Indents). She was literate. Sister Mary Stallard listed as 17, was also on board. Native Place: Bath. 1819: Married William Cross at Windsor, NSW. William was born in the Colony, son of John Cross per 'Alexander'. 1825 Muster: Stallard, Elizabeth, free by servitude, Mary Ann, 1816, 7 years, wife of Wm. Cross, Wilberforce. Stallard, Mary Ann, 8, born in the colony, daughter of Elizabeth Stallard, Wilberforce. 1828 Census: Cross, William, 31, born in the colony, farmer, Lower Portland Cross, Elizabeth, 27, free by servitude, Mary Ann, 1816, 7 years Cross, Mary Ann, 12, born in the colony. 6/8/1844: Elizabeth died at Windsor, NSW, she was 45 years old. 12/8/1844 Sydney Morning Herald: AWFUL DEATH. - An inquest was held yesterday noon, at the CURRENCY LASS, Bridge-street, Windsor, before J. Dowe, Esq., coroner of the district, on the body of Mrs Elizabeth Cross, wife of Mr. William Cross, innkeeper, of this town. From the evidence it appears that on Tuesday night, about half-past nine o'clock, the servant, on going to bed, discovered the room in which her mistress slept was in flames; she immediately called out "master, master!" and Mr. Cross ran up stairs and rushed into the room, but from the smoke and flames, he was unable to see anything. On feeling in the bed, he found his wife was not there, but at length discovered her under the bed dreadfully burned. Life was not quite extinct, but by the time she was carried down the stairs she had breathed her last. Deceased had been for some time labouring under sickness, and was so debilitated as scarcely to be able to walk; and it was conjectured, that having got out of bed, she had shifted the candle from the place in which it had been left, viz., on a double wash-stand, nearer to the bed; and that after getting in to bed again the curtains must have caught fire, and deceased being too feeble to cry out, had crawled under the bed to avoid the flames, which probably communicating with some dirty clothes underneath the bed, prevented her escape, and she was thus burned. Mr. Surgeon Bell, her medical attendant, having certified that the burns were sufficiently extensive to cause death, the Jury certified that deceased met her death accidentally, by being burned. - Hawkesbury Courier. Burial was at Saint Matthew's Anglican Church Cemetery Windsor, Hawkesbury City, New South Wales, Australia PLOT Right Section, Row 27, Plot 11

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Ann Marie Gould on 20th July 2020

Her documents state she was 8 years old when convicted with sister Mary.