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Elizabeth PULLEY/POWLEY/POOLEY
She
was tried at
Thetford, Norfolk
on
14 March 1783 for burglary with a value of 8 shillings.
She
was sentenced to transportation for
7 years having been originally sentenced to death,
and left England on the
Friendship
aged about 24 at that time (May 1787).
She had no occupation recorded. She died in 1837.
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She had a previous conviction for theft.Married Anthony Rope on 19 May 1788. Frances Williams lent her clothes for the wedding which was celebrated with seapye that caused a furore in the community, containing goat’s flesh believed to have been stolen. They had 6 children.
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