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Elizabeth Wicker was transported on the Coromandel And Experiment, departing 31st Oct 1803 and arriving 7th May 1804 with 338 passengers.
Coromandel And Experiment (generic)References
| Primary Source | Essex RO ref:Halstead, St Andrew D/P 96/1/6 C,M 1744-1800 F2 - fiche 2 of 2 |
| 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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Family connections for Elizabeth (Wicker) are: WICKER Elizabeth (Wicker/Vickers) daughter of Richard (Wicker) & Sarah (Raynor) was born in 1784 & was christened at St Andrews Halstead Essex. She was tried for stealing linen etc at Halstead Essex Quarter Sessions on 19 4 1803, sentenced to 7years & arrived in NSW as a convict on 7 5 1804 after a voyage of 6months on EXPERIMENT. She had had a first relationship with John (Halliday).>>> [Some details taken from this Website] John (Holiday)Halladay) arrived in NSW as a seaman on 12 6 1804 after a voyage of 5months on EXPERIMENT. Elizabeth (Wicker) & John (Halliday) produced 1child: 1.John (Holiday/Halliday) was born in 1804. He is recorded in 1822 using the name (Prentice). He died on 19 12 1859 age about55. .. >>>Elizabeth (Wicker) was recorded in 1806 living with her child John (Halliday) & William (Prentice) in Cumberland St. She was issued her Certificate of Emancipation in 1811. She was Free by Servitude by 1812. She received title to a house & property from William (Prentice) in 1813.>>> William (Prentice) was born in 1771 & became a butcher. He was tried for sheep stealing at Chelmsford Essex Assizes in March 1788, sentenced to death reprieved to 14years, held on hulk LION at Portsmouth & 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 is recorded in 1801 as employed by Richard (Cheers/Chear) butcher at Sydney & again in 1806 as a self-empoyed butcher living with Elizabeth (Wicker her second (20f3) relationship) & her child John (Halliday) in Cumberland St. He was Free by Servitude by 1807. He had a relationship with Elizabeth (Vickers-sic/Wicker her second relationship 2of3?). He gave title to his house & property to Elizabeth (Wicker) in 1813. He died on 2 4 1822 age51 & was buried at Elizabeth St burial ground [another recording is-died 4 4 1822 age64 & buried at St Phillips CofE Sydney]. [Some details taken from this Website] .. >>>Elizabeth (Wicker) married thirdly with permission James (Cross) Ticket of Leave butcher on 25 3 1828 at St Phillips CofE Sydney is recorded with him at Cumberland St. She died or disappeared before 1837 mother of maybe 7children. [James (Cross) was born about 1871 in Norwich Norfolk. He was tried at Norfolk Assizes, sentenced to 14years & arrived in NSW as a convict on 30 1 1816 after a voyage of 5months on OCEAN; he was Protestant. He was issued his Ticket of Leave on 1825 for Sydney. In 1828 he is recorded as a butcher at Cumberland St with Elizabeth (Wicker). He died on 29 1 1838 age59 & was buried at st Phillips CofE Sydney.] [Some details taken from this Website] Reference: 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.
sainty & Johnson; 1828 Census of New South Wales: [Ref C3087] Cross, Elizabeth, 46, free by servitude, Experiment, 1803, 7 years. [REf C3086] Cross, James age 49 ticket of leave Ocean 1816, 14 year Protestant Butcher Cumberland Street Sydney.
"William Prentice, a butcher aged 17, was sentenced to death at the March 1788 Chelmsford (Essex) Assizes for sheep stealing. He had been accused of several thefts of sheep in the north Essex parishes of Halsted and Black Notley; one involved obtaining sheep by false pretences. After a month under a suspended death sentence he was reprieved to transportation for 14 years and sent to the Portsmouth hulk, "Lion", whence he was embarked on the Scarborough transport on 29 Nov 1789. "Prentice lived quietly in the colony. In 1801 he was employed at Sydney by the butcher Richard Cheers (or Chear, q.v.). Some time after her arrival on the Experiment in 1804 he began living with Elizabeth Wicker (or Vickers b. c1772, tried Essex). In 1806 he was recorded as a self employed butcher living with Wicker and one child, John (born 1804, fathered by John Halliday, a seaman on the Experiment). Her children by Prentice were: Sarah 1807, Elizabeth 1809, Mary 1812, William Henry 1815, Rosetta 1818 and Charlotte 1821. The couple do not appear to have married and it may have been to ensure her inheritance that William transferred the title of their home at 57 Cumberland Street, Sydney, to Elizabeth in 1813. They were still there in 1820, owning the house in which they lived. William Prentice died on 2 April 1822, and was buried in the Elizabeth Street Burial Ground (on the site of modern Central Station) where a headstone once stood on which his name was spelt PRENTES. Elizabeth married another butcher, James Cross, in 1828 and lived with him in Cumberland Street. James Cross was buried, aged 60, at St. Phillip's Church Sydney on 29 Jan 1838. John [son of John Halliday] used the surname Prentice (cf. 1822 muster); Elizabeth Wicker was possibly dead by 1837 when two of her daughters married as minors without the consent of a parent. 1811: Certificate of emancipation. Elizabeth gained her freedom in 1811, at the same time as Mary Cable who was convicted with Elizabeth. William Prentice died 4 Apr 1822 and was buried at St. Phillips Church of England in Sydney. No trace of Elizabeth's death has yet been found, and she might have returned to England with her lawful husband, James Cross after he had served his time. However, Barbara Morrison expresses a doubt about Elizabeth returning to England leaving all her family in Australia. After so long away there would have been nothing for her there. No record of her death as Elizabeth Wicker or Cross has yet been found in NSW, but an Ann Cross died aged 56 in 1836. William gave Elizabeth the house and shop.
Baptismal records show that Elizabeth was christened in St Andrews, Halstead, Essex, England on the 13th April 1784, the daughter of Richard and Sarah Wicker.
Elizabeth Wicker, was convicted at Halstead for stealing 30 yards of linen and 3 pairs of black stockings. Elizabeth was sentenced In Essex, England on 19 April, 1803 to 7 years transportation. Transported to New South Wales, Australia aboard the Experiment in 1804. She was the daughter of Richard Wicker and Sarah Raynor of Halstead, Essex. Sometimes the WICKER was written as VICKER but her certificate of freedon shows Wicker Elizabeth gained her freedom in 1811.