Elizabeth Benson, 1805–1853 (aged 48 years)
- Name
- Elizabeth /Benson/
- Given names
- Elizabeth
- Surname
- Benson
- Married name
- Elizabeth /Mayo/
- Married name
- Elizabeth /Blaxland/
| Birth | between 1805 and 1806 Source: Calculated from age at death Text: Born about 1806 Source: Spurway, John, ed. Australian Biographical and Genealogical Record. Series 1, 1788-1841, with series 2 supplement, 1842-1899. Sydney: A.B.G.R., 1992 Text: Born about 1805 London England |
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| Immigration | May 7, 1824 (aged 19 years) Source: State Library of Queensland. Convict Transportation Registers Database 1787-1867 [database on-line]. Text: Elizabeth Benson, one of 89 convicts transported on the ship Brothers, 20 November 1823.
Details: Sentence details: Convicted at Middlesex Gaol Delivery for a term of 7 years.
Vessel: Brothers.
Date of Departure: 20 November 1823.
Place of Arrival: New South Wales and Van Diemens Land. Source: Bateson, Charles. The convict ships 1787-1868. 2nd ed. Glasgow : Brown, Son & Ferguson Ltd., 1985 ie 1969 Text: Arrived 7 May 1824 Source: Spurway, John, ed. Australian Biographical and Genealogical Record. Series 1, 1788-1841, with series 2 supplement, 1842-1899. Sydney: A.B.G.R., 1992 Citation details: p. 25 Text: Nothing is known of Elizabeth's background or early life. In May 1823 aged seventeen, she was working as a housemaid and living at the 'Key' public house, in Chandos Street in London's West End. In that month she was sentenced to seven years transportation at the Old Bailey for shoplifting six yards of printed cotton from a High Holborn linen draper's shop. Described as 'decent and well behaved' she sailed in Dec 1823 on the 'Brothers', a female convict ship, and reached Sydney in May 1824.
On arrival Elizabeth was assigned as a servant to Thomas and Christiana Blomfield, landowners of Maitland NSW who had two small boys. In Mar 1826 Elizabeth gave birth to an illegitimate child fathered by John Blaxland, the son of a neighbouring landholder. Her employer took her before a magistrate and she was ordered back to the Female Factory. The sentence was remitted when an enterprising Newcastle convict, John Mayo, offered to marry her. |
| Marriage | John Blaxland — View this family about 1825 (aged 20 years) Source: Spurway, John, ed. Australian Biographical and Genealogical Record. Series 1, 1788-1841, with series 2 supplement, 1842-1899. Sydney: A.B.G.R., 1992 Text: John and Elizabeth did not marry. Elizabeth gave birth to an illegitimate child in Mar 1826 |
| Marriage | John Mayo — View this family May 29, 1826 (aged 21 years) Text: Married at Christ Church Source: Ancestry.com. 'New South Wales, Australia, Registers of Convicts' Applications to Marry, 1826-1851 [database on-line]. Text: On 24 Apr 1826 John and Elizabeth were granted permission to marry:
John Mayo 20 Baring (2) fourteen years [a sentence obtained in Sydney], bond, Rev. G. A. Middleton, Newcastle
Elizabeth Benson, 21, Brothers (1), seven years, bond |
| Census | 1828 (aged 23 years) Source: Ancestry.com. 1828 New South Wales, Australia Census (TNA Copy) [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2007. Text: John Mayo 26 free by servitude Baring 2 1819 7 years, barber at Newcastle
Elizabeth Mayo 25 government servant brothers 1824 7 years
Mary Ann Mayo age 3 born in colony
Catherine Mayo aged 1 born in colony |
| Residence | 1832 (aged 27 years) Source: Spurway, John, ed. Australian Biographical and Genealogical Record. Series 1, 1788-1841, with series 2 supplement, 1842-1899. Sydney: A.B.G.R., 1992 Citation details: p. 25 Text: Elizabeth and John established a shop and in 1832 moved to East Maitland. Elizabeth played an active roll in the business and continued running when her husband was ordered to road gangs in 1829, 1831 and 1833 for various offences. From 1830 when her sentence expired, Elizabeth took a more prominent roll (John's sentence did not expire until late 1834). She was allowed an assigned female convict servant and made a spirited challenge to a magistrate's action in withdrawing the servant in Apr 1833. From 1838 she assisted her husband in running the 'Maitland Wine Vaults' later known as the 'Hunter River Hotel' and had attained a high degree of affluence and respectability for an ex convict by the time of her death. |
| Death | March 18, 1853 (aged 48 years) |
| Burial | East Maitland Anglican: Mayo Elizabeth 18 Mar 1853 46y née Benson; w/John |
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1805–1853
Birth: between 1805 and 1806 — London, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom Death: March 18, 1853 — Newcastle, Hunter, New South Wales, Australia |
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1805–1853
Birth: between 1805 and 1806 — London, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom Death: March 18, 1853 — Newcastle, Hunter, New South Wales, Australia |
| Marriage | Marriage — May 29, 1826 — Newcastle, Hunter, New South Wales, Australia |
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1841–1922
Birth: 1841
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| Birth | Calculated from age at death Text: Born about 1806 |
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| Birth | Spurway, John, ed. Australian Biographical and Genealogical Record. Series 1, 1788-1841, with series 2 supplement, 1842-1899. Sydney: A.B.G.R., 1992 Text: Born about 1805 London England |
| Immigration | State Library of Queensland. Convict Transportation Registers Database 1787-1867 [database on-line]. Text: Elizabeth Benson, one of 89 convicts transported on the ship Brothers, 20 November 1823.
Details: Sentence details: Convicted at Middlesex Gaol Delivery for a term of 7 years.
Vessel: Brothers.
Date of Departure: 20 November 1823.
Place of Arrival: New South Wales and Van Diemens Land. |
| Immigration | Bateson, Charles. The convict ships 1787-1868. 2nd ed. Glasgow : Brown, Son & Ferguson Ltd., 1985 ie 1969 Text: Arrived 7 May 1824 |
| Immigration | Spurway, John, ed. Australian Biographical and Genealogical Record. Series 1, 1788-1841, with series 2 supplement, 1842-1899. Sydney: A.B.G.R., 1992 Citation details: p. 25 Text: Nothing is known of Elizabeth's background or early life. In May 1823 aged seventeen, she was working as a housemaid and living at the 'Key' public house, in Chandos Street in London's West End. In that month she was sentenced to seven years transportation at the Old Bailey for shoplifting six yards of printed cotton from a High Holborn linen draper's shop. Described as 'decent and well behaved' she sailed in Dec 1823 on the 'Brothers', a female convict ship, and reached Sydney in May 1824.
On arrival Elizabeth was assigned as a servant to Thomas and Christiana Blomfield, landowners of Maitland NSW who had two small boys. In Mar 1826 Elizabeth gave birth to an illegitimate child fathered by John Blaxland, the son of a neighbouring landholder. Her employer took her before a magistrate and she was ordered back to the Female Factory. The sentence was remitted when an enterprising Newcastle convict, John Mayo, offered to marry her. |
| Marriage | Spurway, John, ed. Australian Biographical and Genealogical Record. Series 1, 1788-1841, with series 2 supplement, 1842-1899. Sydney: A.B.G.R., 1992 Text: John and Elizabeth did not marry. Elizabeth gave birth to an illegitimate child in Mar 1826 |
| Marriage | Tuxford, Bob, [various titles] email messages to Marion Purnell, Apr 2011 Text: Married at Christ Church |
| Marriage | Ancestry.com. 'New South Wales, Australia, Registers of Convicts' Applications to Marry, 1826-1851 [database on-line]. Text: On 24 Apr 1826 John and Elizabeth were granted permission to marry:
John Mayo 20 Baring (2) fourteen years [a sentence obtained in Sydney], bond, Rev. G. A. Middleton, Newcastle
Elizabeth Benson, 21, Brothers (1), seven years, bond |
| Census | Ancestry.com. 1828 New South Wales, Australia Census (TNA Copy) [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2007. Text: John Mayo 26 free by servitude Baring 2 1819 7 years, barber at Newcastle
Elizabeth Mayo 25 government servant brothers 1824 7 years
Mary Ann Mayo age 3 born in colony
Catherine Mayo aged 1 born in colony |
| Residence | Spurway, John, ed. Australian Biographical and Genealogical Record. Series 1, 1788-1841, with series 2 supplement, 1842-1899. Sydney: A.B.G.R., 1992 Citation details: p. 25 Text: Elizabeth and John established a shop and in 1832 moved to East Maitland. Elizabeth played an active roll in the business and continued running when her husband was ordered to road gangs in 1829, 1831 and 1833 for various offences. From 1830 when her sentence expired, Elizabeth took a more prominent roll (John's sentence did not expire until late 1834). She was allowed an assigned female convict servant and made a spirited challenge to a magistrate's action in withdrawing the servant in Apr 1833. From 1838 she assisted her husband in running the 'Maitland Wine Vaults' later known as the 'Hunter River Hotel' and had attained a high degree of affluence and respectability for an ex convict by the time of her death. |
| Death | Spurway, John, ed. Australian Biographical and Genealogical Record. Series 1, 1788-1841, with series 2 supplement, 1842-1899. Sydney: A.B.G.R., 1992 |
| Burial | East Maitland Anglican: Mayo Elizabeth 18 Mar 1853 46y née Benson; w/John |
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