People Australia

Elizabeth Humphreys was apprenticed to Rev Thomas Reddall in 1823 from the Female Orphan's School. It is likely that it was there that she met her future husband, John Smith.

On their application for the publication of banns of marriage, Reddall's notes that 'He [John Smith] used to be somewhat irregular; but he is greatly altered; and being a good Tailor is well able to support a wife – She was apprenticed to me from the Female O [Orphan's] School. She was correct when with us and a good seamstress.'

Her mother Mary Kelly had applied to take her from the orphanage on 13 February 1822 but had been refused.