Elizabeth Benson, 1805–1853?> (aged 48 years)
- Name
- Elizabeth /Benson/
- Given names
- Elizabeth
- Surname
- Benson
- Name
- Elizabeth /Mayo/
- Type of name
- married name
- Name
- Elizabeth /Blaxland/
- Type of name
- married name
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Immigration
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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. Text: Arrived 7 May 1824 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. |
Marriage
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Text: John and Elizabeth did not marry. Elizabeth gave birth to an illegitimate child in Mar 1826 |
Marriage
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Text: Married at Christ Church Text: On 24 Apr 1826 John and Elizabeth were granted permission to marry: |
Census
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Text: John Mayo 26 free by servitude Baring 2 1819 7 years, barber at Newcastle |
Residence
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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. |
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Note: East Maitland Anglican: East Maitland Anglican: |
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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 — about 1825 — |
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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 |
3 years
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2 years
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3 years
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3 years
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2 years
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5 years
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1841–1922
Birth: 1841
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— New South Wales, Australia Death: about 1922 — Hunter, New South Wales, Australia |
Birth |
Source: Calculated from age at death
Text: Born about 1806 Text: Born about 1805 London England |
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Immigration |
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. Text: Arrived 7 May 1824 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. |
Marriage |
Text: John and Elizabeth did not marry. Elizabeth gave birth to an illegitimate child in Mar 1826 |
Marriage |
Text: Married at Christ Church Text: On 24 Apr 1826 John and Elizabeth were granted permission to marry: |
Census |
Text: John Mayo 26 free by servitude Baring 2 1819 7 years, barber at Newcastle |
Residence |
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. |
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East Maitland Anglican: |
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