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Voyage
Transportation
Elizabeth Woodcock was transported on the Sydney Cove, departing 31st Dec 1806 and arriving 18th Jun 1807 with 115 passengers.
Sydney Cove (generic)References
| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 87, Class and Piece Number HO11/1, Page Number 384 |
| 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's second son, b 1813, was named James Barry. Her husband Joseph Barry died aged 72 years at Richmond, Tasmania, on 7 April 1841. An inquest into his death declared he died by 'visitation of God'.
IN NSW just a few weeks after arrival, on 19 August 1807, Elizabeth was the witness at the marriage of her shipmate, Maria Smith, to Thomas Meares. A year later, she got married herself at St Philips chiurch, on 19 July 1808, to Joseph Barry, an Irish convict. Joseph was then free by servitude, having arrived in 1796 on the "Marquis Cornwallis" with a seven year sentence after being tried at Mullingar in 1795. Joseph, at his 1808 marriage to Elizabeth, was then aged about 39 and she was aged about 25. He was a self-employed tailor. Elizabeth could not write, making her mark with an ‘x’ but Joseph Barry could sign his name. Written over the original entry in the St Philips register is the word “illegal”. This indicates that one of them was later found to be already married. It was Elizabeth, previously married in England to Thomas Woodcock. A year after their marriage Elizabeth and Jospeh ahd a son, named Thomas Barry B 1809. Their second child was another boy, born 10 May 1813, baptised on 30 May 1813, registred at St Philip's Church, Sydney. The couple moved to Hobart in Tasmania in 1813 or 1814. By 1817 Joseph was a tailor in Liverpool St, Hobart when a quantity of cloth etc was stolen from his dwelling house on 18 January 1817. The thief was John Mahoney, a convict, who was found guilty and sentenced to 100 lashes and the gaol gang for twelve months. (Hobart Town Gazette, 8 February 1817, page 2). In the 1818 Tasmanian General Muster - Joseph Barry, and residing in Hobart. In the 1822 muster at Hobart, Joseph was Free by Servitude; Male Children: 2, Total Children: 2. Further details of Elizabeth Woodcock/Barry not yet found.
Elizabeth Woodcock was tried at Gloucester Assizes on 27 August 1805. Her crime was "stealing above 40 shillings in a Dwelling House". This was a capital crime, so she was reprieved to be transported for Life. This was probably Elizabeth being reported in the Gloucester Assizes, stealing 176 pounds(!) as reported in the Ipswich Journal dated 7 Sept 1805, p.1 "At Gloucester Assizes, seven were condemned to die, viz, three for horse-stealing, one for sheep stealing, one for stealing 176 pounds and two (mother and daughter) for stealing a tankard." Elizabeth could well have been this person, locked up for vagrancy earlier in the year that she was tried, and in gaol for six months from January to June 1805. It would make sense that when she came out of gaol she had no means of support and a few weeks afterwards resorted to the theft that got her transported: Leeds Intelligencer, Monday 21 January 1805, p 3: "The General Quarter Sessions for this riding were opened at Wetherby on Tuesday last … At the same sessions, held by adjournment at Wakefield, John Inegent and Elizabeth Woodcock, for vagrancy, to be each confined six months and passed to their settlements, the former to be publicly whipped." ______________________________________ on a vagrant