Bennett, Elizabeth Agnes

Convicted of possessing forged bank notes she was to become a respected baker's wife and matriach in Parramatta by the early nineteenth century.

Milestone

Died

Parramatta

19 Oct 1847

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Name

Birth

Miller, Elizabeth Agnes

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Occupation

Convict

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Position

Convict

Janus

1819 - 1820

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Relationship

Parent of

Miller, Rebecca

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Parent of

Bennett, Elizabeth Ann

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Parent of

Bennett, William Harrard Jnr

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Parent of

Jilks, William Bennett

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Spouse

Bennett, William Harrard

1820 - 1847

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Elizabeth Agnes Miller

Michaela Ann Cameron

2015

Elizabeth Agnes Miller arrived in Sydney on the ill-famed 'floating brothel', the Janus, having received a 14-year sentence for possession of forged banknotes. She soon married William H Bennett and rose to become a respectable baker's wife and matriarch in the town of Parramatta in the second quarter of the nineteenth century

Michaela Ann Cameron

2015

Sentenced to seven years transportation for theft, William H Bennett progressed from being a convict in a 'town gang' at Parramatta to being a highly respectable baker and landholder. Like other upwardly mobile emancipists, William Bennett negotiated the degradations of the convict system while keeping sight of the opportunities the new colony offered.

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The Dictionary of Sydney was archived in 2021.

The Dictionary of Sydney was archived in 2021.

Bennett, Elizabeth Agnes