11 Facts About Elizabeth Throsby

Elizabeth Isabella Throsby was an Australian survivor of the 1809 Boyd massacre.

Elizabeth Throsby remained there for almost a year until a whaler took her to Sydney to be reunited with her father.

Elizabeth Throsby went on to marry in her late teenage years and raise a large family at Throsby Park south of Sydney, where she remained for the rest of her life.

Elizabeth Throsby was one of only four passengers to survive the massacre.

When Elizabeth Throsby was carried by Berry to the ship, she began crying for her "mamma".

The Spaniards grew attached to Elizabeth Throsby and made many requests to keep her, but Berry felt duty-bound to return her to Broughton.

The portrait was rediscovered in England in the early 1950s by art collector Rex Nan Kivell, who found inside the back of the frame a letter from Broughton to Elizabeth Throsby's adopted family in Lima, thanking them for "nobly distinguishing themselves by their humanity in their protection and benevolent treatment of the child".

Back in Australia, Elizabeth Throsby grew up on Lachlan Vale in Appin, south of Sydney, Broughton having received the first land grant in the area in 1811.

Elizabeth moved to Moss Vale to live with her husband at Throsby Park, granted to Charles Throsby after his retirement as surgeon of the Coal River penal colony.

Berry witnessed Elizabeth Throsby answering the "cruel but interesting" question if she remembered the death of her mother:.

Elizabeth Throsby is the only survivor of the Boyd massacre known to have living descendants.