Elizabeth Callaghan

Elizabeth Callaghan (1802-1852; also Eliza Thompson,[1] later Elizabeth Batman and Sarah Willoughby) was a convict born in Ireland in 1802 and shipped to the penal colony in New South Wales at the age of 17 for passing a counterfeit bank note for £1 with intent to defraud the Bank of England.[2] She travelled with 103 other convicts on 6 June 1821 and arrived in Hobart on 7 January 1822.[3][1] The town of Mount Eliza near Melbourne is named after her.[4]

  1. ^ a b Brown, P.L. (1966). Batman, John (1801–1839). Melbourne: Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. Retrieved 10 December 2015.
  2. ^ "Eliza Batman (née Callaghan)". POI Australia. June 1802. Retrieved 16 November 2015.
  3. ^ "Convict Records: Elizabeth Callaghan". www.convictrecords.com.au. Retrieved 17 November 2015.
  4. ^ "Mount Eliza". eMelbourne. The School of Historical Studies at the University of Melbourne. Retrieved 13 May 2021.