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Elizabeth Rope (née Pulley) (1762-1837) was a First Fleet convict sentenced in 1783 at Thetford Norfolk to 7 years transportation for theft. She was transported to New South Wales on the Friendship and the Prince of Wales, disembarking in Sydney Cove on 6 February 1788. In May that year she married Anthony Rope, a convict from the Alexander, and the family became pioneering settlers.