Elizabeth Williams

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iain Frazier on 23rd September 2025

Family connections for Elizabeth (Williams) are: WILLIAMS Elizabeth (Curtin) as Elizabeth (Williams) was born about 1783. She was tried at Middlesex Sessions of Peace, sentenced to 7years & arrived in NSW as a convict on 14 12 1801 after a journey of 6months on Fleet ship NILE. She had a first (1of3) marriage? with ??? (Curtin). She must have been moved to Norfolk Island & had a second (2of3) relationship with Thomas (Crowder).>>> [Some details taken from this Website) Thomas (Crowder) was a Government servant. He died on 15 4 1806 age50 & was buried at St Johns CofE Parramatta-or recorded there. [No entry for this Thomas (Crowder) is on this Website as yet] Details of a (Crowder) family are given in entry for Thomas (Risdale ALEXANDER 1788) on this Website. Elizabeth (Williams) & Thomas (Crowder) produced 3children: boys 1.Thomas (Crowder) was born on 15 5 1801 & baptised on 27 12 1801 at St Johns CofE Parramatta-or recorded there. He seems to have left Norfolk Island with his mother & Thomas (Crahan) on 26 12 1807 on HMS PORPOISE to Derwent Tasmania, arriving on 17 1 1808. 2.John (Crowder was born on 1 6 1804 & baptised on 2 9 1804 at St Johns CofE Parramatta-or recorded there. He seems to have left Norfolk Island with his mother & Thomas (Crahan) on 26 12 1807 on HMS PORPOISE to Derwent Tasmania, arriving on 17 1 1808. 3.William (Crowder) was born on 4 7 1806 & baptised on 12 4 1807 at St Johns CofE Parramatta-or recorded there. He seems to have left Norfolk Island with his mother & Thomas (Crahan) on 26 12 1807 on HMS PORPOISE to Derwent Tasmania, arriving on 17 1 1808. ++ [Noted an Elizabeth (Williams), also known as (Carter/Curtan/Curtain), who married Robert (Williams) & also had a relationship with William Edward (Green) in 1810s. This person also has an entry on NILE on this Website. This may be the same person, although their convict trials are different-but more research is needed to clarify.] ++ >>>Elizabeth (Williams) & her children seem to have then lived with Thomas (Creghan/Crahan BODDINGTONS 1793) & his family in 1806/7. She seems to have left Norfolk Island with her children with Thomas (Crahan) on 26 12 1807 on HMS PORPOISE to Derwent Tasmania, arriving on 17 1 1808. She married thirdly Thomas (Buckton his first relationship) free on 6 4 1819 & produced 1child. She produced 4known children in her lifetime. Thomas (Buckton) was born about 1783 & became a dyer & woollen manufacturer. He possibly lived in or moved to Yorkshire. He was tried for breaking & entering & stealing a leather pocket book/purse of Thomas (Shepherd) of Almondbury at Gloucester Assizes on 16 8 1817, sentenced to death commuted to Life & arrived in NSW as a convict on 14 10 1818 after a voyage of 9months on TOTTENHAM. On the voyage he sufferred much bodily soreness & scurvy. He was 5'6.5" brown or ruddy complexion long face long chin dark brown hair grey eyes, small cut on left side end of nose, large mark near navel, mole on left arm, small scar lower left fore finger & could read & write. He was Free by Servitude & a clothier in 1821. He had possessions of land & property, including a brewery, in August 1829 amounting to 2,000lb. On 12 2 1830 he was confined to a cell at the watchouse, for stealing a gold watch, where he died from excessive drinking, diseased state of his body & effect of heat & poor air in confinement on 14 2 1830 age about47 father of 4children & was buried at St James CofE Sydney; his property was sold on 18 2 1830 to repay debts. He was a clothier when he married secondly (2of3) Jane (Thompson) on 2 7 1821 at St Phillips CofE Sydney. He received 50lashes about 1 3 1826 for insolence at his wifes premises & on 19 12 1826 he was assigned to William (Thompson) his brother in law. He was a clothier/dealer, now Free by Servitude & a brewer/dealer at Campbell St when he married thirdly Ann (Ha/ence) on 6 8 1827 at St James CofE Sydney. He had possessions of land & property, including a brewery, in August 1829 amounting to 2,000lb. On 12 2 1830 he was confined to a cell at the watchouse, for stealing a gold watch, where he died by suffocation from excessive drinking, diseased state of his body & effect of heat & poor air in confinement on 14 2 1830 age about47 father of 4children & was buried at St James CofE Sydney; his property was sold on 18 2 1830 to repay debts. [Some details taken from this Website) There were 8persons recorded on this Website on this voyage with the surname (Williams); one, Susannah (Williams), has an apparent connection to Elizabeth (Williams). 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'