Deborah Herbert, Convict "Prince of Wales" 1788

First Fleet Convict: Prince of Wales - Departed England 13.5.1787 arrived Port Jackson18.1.1788.

Deborah Ellam (or Hellam) was tried together with Elizabeth Hewitt and Alice Hatton, on 24 August 1784 at the Chester Quarter Sessions. They were convicted of feloniously stealing and taking away from the home of Henry Byron one cotton gown value 10s owned by Mary Byron, a gown of silk and worsted valued at 20s and six yards of cotton valued at 6s owned by Elizabeth Jackson. Ellam received a sentence of seven years transportation. She was aged 17 years and arrived in the Colony aboard the ship Prince of Wales.

Deborah married John Herbert on 2/4/1788.

On the 5/12/1788 she bought a complaint against her husband after a dispute. The matter was considered trivial and she received 25 lashes.

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