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Biographies
Birth
28 Aug 1777 • Bisley, Gloucestershire, England
Parents: Bisley: William Morris b. 1731 and Hester "Betty" Dickenson. Married 12 Apr 1751, Bisley, Gloucestershire, England.
Convict - sentenced to 7 years transportation
1790 • Bristol, England, United Kingdom
She was 10 years old when tried & acquitted of a felony at Bristol. At age 12 she was convicted, along with two men John Clements & John Rossiter Transported with 149 other women on Mary Ann - the first ship in the Third Fleet.
Arrival
Sep 1791 • New South Wales
Source: Smee, CJ; Third Fleet Families of Australia, 1991
Relationship with John Dalton
1792-1793 • Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
de facto 1792-1793 John Dalton (Convict - Albermarle), born 1776 in England. Tried at the Old Bailey on 24th October 1787 for theft, sentenced to 7 years transportation, (11 years old). Left England on 27th March 1791. Ship: the 'Albermarle' 3rd fleet.
Daughter Hannah with John Dalton
12 Feb 1793 • Child of Elizabeth Morris and John Dalton:
Elizabeth was very young when transported and started a relationship with John Dalton. She was aged about 17 and he about 16 at the time! They had one child. Hannah Dalton, born 12 Feb 1793. She married Samuel Beckett.
Abandoned
1794 • Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
In 1794, John abandoned Elizabeth & his daughter Hannah and sailed on the 'Salamander' which was bound for Norfolk Island & then on to India.
Marriage to William Kentwell* CONVICT
21 Jan 1796 • St. John’s Church Parramatta, Cumberland, New South Wales, Australia
Married by Samuel Marsden. William signed the register & Elizabeth made her Mark X.
On August 1809 William Kentwell, and seven others, drowned in the Hawkesbury/Nepean River near Windsor during a flood. It seems that he was returning home after purchasing horses for the Government when the accident happened. Three weeks after she was widowed, on 23rd August 1809, Elizabeth took seven-year-old Charlotte to the Female Orphan Institution. She continued to run the farm with the help of Hannah and the two older boys William and John.
Relationship with Murtagh Shields
1812 • Green Hills, Hawkesbury River, New South Wales, Australia
Murtagh Shields, (Convict - Anne), born 1760 in Grissard, Ire; d. 1835 Liverpool). An Irish convict who had been helping her run the farm. They were refused permission to marry as Murtagh had left a wife and 6 children in Kilkenny, Ireland.
Son James with Murtagh Shields
1813 • Toongabbie, New South Wales, Australia
James Henry Shields, born 1813 in Toongabbie; died 1890. He married Mary Anne Bellamy. Murtagh (Murty) Shields may have been assigned to the Kentwell’s in place of the convict servant - Lawrence Kirwan.
Break up with Murtagh Shields
Jan 1815 • Green Hills, Hawkesbury River, New South Wales, Australia
Murtagh left her in 1815, Elizabeth started a relationship with Thompkins, a convict who arrived on the Fortune. Thomas and Elizabeth married in 1815 Around this time Elizabeth's son William Cody Kentwell, was killed by aboriginals at Wilberforce.
Son Henry and daughter Sarah with Thomas Thompkins
Aug 1815 • Toongabbie, New South Wales, Australia
1. Henry T Tomkins(Thompkins), born 15 Aug 1815 in Australia NSW Toongabbie. He married Hester Letitia Best. 2. Sarah T Thompkins, born 1817 in Australia NSW Parramatta. She married James Wharf.
Marriage to Thomas Thompkins
21 Aug 1820 • Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia
Elizabeth re-married again to Thomas Thompkins (Convict; Fortune 1813). The marriage was 21 August 1820 at Parramatta, NSW. The couple had 2 children, prior to the legal marriage.
Death
25 Jan 1852 • Castle Hill, New South Wales, Australia
Died named Elizabeth Tompkins aged 75
Burial
25 Jan 1852 • City of Parramatta Council, New South Wales, Australia
St John's Cemetery, Parramatta.
Submitted by Researcher (Peter McCombe) on 15 August 2023
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