Elizabeth Morris

  Noted events in her life were:

• source. Win & Steve Sinden & http://www.easystreetretreat.com.au/australianroyalty where it is noted:
: Elizabeth, when aged 10, was tried and acquitted of a felony at Bristol. 2 years later she was convicted along with two men, John Clements and John Rossiter, of grand larceny. At age 12, she was sentenced to seven years transportation in Bristol on 5 Apr 1790. Elizabeth sailed aboard the ship 'Mary Ann', an old French 298 ton ship which was part of the Third Fleet, with 149 other women, departing 16 Feb 1791 and arriving in Sydney on 9 Jul 1791. The Mary Ann was the first ship of the Third Fleet to arrive in Sydney.
Elizabeth and William Kentwell lived between 1796 and 1809 at Toongabbie, where they farmed a land grant. William drowned in the flood of 1809 and on 23 August 1809 she took seven year old Charlotte to the Female Orphan Institution at Parramatta. She continued to run the farm with the help of Hannah and the two boys, and a little while later, in about 1813, entered into a relationship with an Irish convict named Murty or Murtagh Shields who had a wife and six children at home in Ireland.
The 1814 muster had Elizabeth with six children living with her. In 1815 D'arcy Wentworth paid Elizabeth a bull and two cows as part payment for some of William's land. Elizabeth was still living at Toongabbie in May 1820 when her son John Kentwell applied for a land grant. He said he was living with his widowed mother at Toongabbie.
Elizabeth and Thomas Thompkins were listed in the 1828 census of 1828. Thomas is listed as a landholder at Baulkham Hills with 90 acres, 26 of which was cleared and 25 under cultivation, and he had 3 horses and 19 cattle.

Elizabeth married John Dalton circa 1792 in Sydney, NSW Australia. (John Dalton was born in 1776.)

Elizabeth next married William Kentwell, son of Richard Kentwell and Martha Kappa, on 4 Jan 1796 in St Johns C of E, Parramatta, Sydney, NSW Australia. (William Kentwell was born on 23 Oct 1761 in London City, Middlesex England, christened on 16 Oct 1791 on board the 'William and Ann' on way to Australia as a convict and died on 1 Aug 1809 in Green Hills, Hawkesbury River, Windsor, NSW Australia.)

Elizabeth next married Murtagh (Murty) Shields circa 1813. (Murtagh (Murty) Shields was born circa 1760 in Kilkenny, Ireland UK, died in 1835 in Liverpool, Sydney, NSW Australia and was buried on 8 Jul 1835 in St Lukes C of E, Liverpool, Sydney, NSW Australia.)

Elizabeth next married Thomas Thompkins on 21 Aug 1820 in Parramatta, Sydney, NSW Australia. (Thomas Thompkins was born circa 1794 in Northampton, Northamptonshire England, died on 27 Dec 1829 in NSW Australia and was buried in Parramatta, Sydney, NSW Australia.)