Elizabeth/Eliza Betts

[Mudgeeman]

Hi Roots Chatters.
Looking for information on Elizabeth/Eliza Betts prior to her incarceration in Newgate prison in 1824 and again in 1828 for larceny and was sentenced to transportation. she was transported to New South Wales in 1829 aboard the ship Sovereign. The information I am after is her Birthplace in 1804, believed to be Cork Ireland. Unknown how or when she ended up in London. Don't know if Betts was her birth name or a married name, when she was transported to NSW it is documented that she had 2 children and that they went with her, no names documented.

Thank you in advance.
Mudgeeman

[Dundee]

.... it is documented that she had 2 children and that they went with her, no names documented.

Eliza's indent actually says '2 one with her'.  She is married, native to county Cork and her crime looks to me like 'Roby (robbery) her Aunt'.

Her trial is here:

https://www.oldbaileyonline.org/browse.jsp?id=t18281023-171-defend917&div=t18281023-171

This James John BETTS may be the child.  He was aged 6 so would have been taken from her and placed in the orphan school.  The original record has no more information.

https://records-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/f/1e5kcq1/INDEX1913033

Debra 

[heywood]

Should that be John Betts, Debra?

[Dundee]

Oops yes it is John, not James.

Debra 

[heywood]

I can’t find them though