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Elizabeth/Winifred BIRD
She
was tried at
Maidstone, Kent
on
15 March 1785 for stealing livestock (a sheep) with a value of 12 shillings.
She
was sentenced to transportation for
7 years having been originally sentenced to death,
and left England on the
Lady Penrhyn
aged about 45 at that time (May 1787).
Her occupation was listed as servant. She died in 1838.
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Lived with Thomas Eccles on Norfolk Island from 1790 and returned with him to Port Jackson in 1801. Both lived into their 90’s.
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