Elizabeth Beckford (c.1710-1787) was found guilty on 10 January 1787 at the Old Bailey, London, of stealing a 12 pound Gloucester cheese valued at 4 shillings. She was discharged to the Lady Penrhyn on 10 January 1787. Surgeon Arthur Bowes Smyth estimated her age as 70 (and 82 on another occasion). She died of dropsy on 12 July as the Fleet neared the equator.
* information from Mollie Gillen, The Founders of Australia: A Biographical Dictionary of the First Fleet (1989), p 402
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