Elizabeth Whitehead.
Back in 2021 I wrote a post about Henry Nicolls, you can read it here Henry This lead me to wonder about Elizabeth his first wife, but not enough to do anything then. In the past couple of weeks I've done some research on Elizabeth and while I still haven't found out what happened to her, what I found has been very interesting. Searching for any information about Elizabeth, I find her birth/baptism recorded twice on the New South Wales, (1) 6576 Vol 1B and 2) 439 Vol 10). The first one has missing information and the second one includes them and reads; Christian Name: Elizabeth When born: 2 September 1823 Date of ceremony: 9 May 1824 Where ceremony performed: Parish of Post Macquarie Where registered: St. Thomas, Port Macquarie Father: John WHITEHEAD Mother: Esther Abode: Port Macquarie Quality or profession: Prisoner Very interesting. A search of records has shown that both John and Esther were convicts. John arrived on the Elizabeth (1) in 1820 and Esther on the Mar...