5. | Elizabeth Pulley (maid. name (Convict first fleet to Australia)) was born on 27 Mar 1763 in Hethersett, Norfolk, England; died on 9 Aug 1837 in Evan, Castlereagh, New South Wales, Australia. Notes:
Elizabeth was born in Felthorpe, Norfolk, a village just thirty kilometres north-west of Anthony Rope’s birthplace at Norton Subcourse. Her baptism took place on 21 Feb 1762 at St Margarets in Felthorpe with her parents listed as Tobias and Alice Pully. She and her three brothers were orphaned by the time she was 6 and all four may have been then sent to the workhouse.
During her teenage years Elizabeth ran wild. In July 1779 she was acquitted of stealing clothes and just a year later she was sentenced to three weeks in Wymondham Bridewell prison for stealing clothes from a house near Drayton. Her punishment included a public whipping in the market place.
Things were getting worse by 1781 when again she was in court for stealing clothing and money belonging to a Mr Pightling of Heatherset. This crime earned her a year’s hard labour at Aylsham Bridewell. Not long after her release she was in trouble again and in March 1783 she was tried at Thetford Assizes and convicted of stealing a large quantity of food and material (worsted) from the shop of a Mrs Elizabeth Minns of Hethersett. This time she was sentenced to death by hanging but was reprieved by the judge as he left for London and she then spent three years languishing in gaol at Norwich castle while awaiting transportation. A short time in the ‘Dunkirk’ hulk at Plymouth preceded her voyage to New South Wales on the transport ‘Friendship’.
Along with 20 other female convicts Elizabeth suffered dreadfully, as she herself was in irons for 72 days of the 93 days from 13 May till 13 August 1787. Lt Ralph Clark’s diary pinpoints five fighting women which he at one stage labelled as damned whores. Elizabeth Pulley was listed as one of the five. The ship travelled in extremely hot weather and it was lice-ridden, so her conditions were very uncomfortable. Thankfully, when the Fleet reached Cape Town (South Africa), she was transferred to the Prince of Wales ship with other female convicts. This was to make room for animals and other supplies to be taken on board the Friendship.
Children:
- Robert Rope was born on 30 Oct 1788 in Soldiers Square, Wynyard Square, Sydney, New South Wales Australia; died in 1835 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.
- Mary Rope was born on 31 Jul 1791 in Rouse Hill,Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia; died on 24 Oct, 1872 in Emu Plains, New South Wales, Australia.
- Elizabeth Rope was born on 7 Feb, 1794 in Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia; died in 1794 in no supporting documents.
- 2. John Rope was born on 22 Dec 1795 in Ponds Parramatta New South Wales Australia; died on 11 Jul 1845 in Castlereagh, , New South Wales, Australia.
- Sarah Rope was born on 1 Mar 1798 in Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia; died on 17 Aug 1882 in Penrith, New South Wales, Australia.
- Susannah Rope was born in 1801 in South Creek, Penrith, New South Wales, Australia; died on 23 Dec 1883 in South Creek, Penrith, New South Wales, Australia.
- William Rope was born in 1805 in Windsor, New South Wales, Australia; died on 12 Dec 1834 in Castlereagh, New South Wales, Australia.
- Elizabeth Ann Rope was born on 24 Mar 1808 in Windsor, New South Wales, Australia; died on 8 Aug 1889 in Mudgee, New South Wales, Australia.
- Eliza Ryan was born in 1870 in Penrith, , New South Wales, Australia; died on 9 Jun 1870 in Penrith, , New South Wales, Australia.
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