How did Elizabeth Thackery (First women to step foot on Australia during the first fleet)die?? PLEASE HELP!! :

Question

I have googled, yahoo searched and been to the libary to search for Elizabeth's cause of death and have had no luck. Trying to help my sister with a school project... any help would be much appreciated. thank you!

Answer 1

boredom

Answer 2

When you consider she was 93 years old when she died it was probably from old age.

Elizabeth Thackery was the last known female survivor of the First Fleet. She was sentenced in 1786 to seven years transportation for the theft of what?

Five handkerchiefs. Elizabeth married another first Fleeter, Samuel King. She died in Tasmania in August, 1856. Her headstone claimed that she was 'The first white woman to set foot in Australia.'

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Who is Elizabeth Thackery?

Elizabeth Thackery of Manchester, Lancashire was an English convict tried on May 4, 1786, and sentenced to seven years' transportion for the theft of five handkerchiefs to a value of one shilling. She is the last-known female survivor of the First Fleet, and is said to have been the first ashore at Botany Bay when she arrived on January 26 1788 on the Charlotte. This would make her the first white woman to set foot on Australia.

After conviction, she was sent to the hulk Dunkirk. She left England on the convict transport Friendship in May 1787. She was about 20 at the time. She was placed in irons a number of times during the voyage.

After arriving in Australia, she received 25 lashes on July 14, 1791 for coming in from her settlement without permission. She lived for a while with James Dodding and subsequently made her way to van Diemen's Land (Tasmania) on the Porpoise. There she married Samuel King. They settled in the Derwent Valley.

There is a headstone to a "Betty King" in the churchyard of Magra, Tasmania (3 km north of New Norfolk), who was buried in August, 1856, aged 93.

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Answer 3

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_T...

hope this helps it doesn't look like anyone knows for sure maybe old age?

Answer 4

Hi

Google is your friend.

Probably of old age seeing she was 93?

Cya

:)

Answer 5

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_T...

She died of old age at the age of 93.