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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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
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.
