Her father, James Orchard, is described in the 1851 census as a "Dealer in Marine Stores", a term applied to traders in second-hand goods and "rag and bone men".
It is not known when she left Wotton, or where she met her first husband, William Cozens Dinham, who had been born in Bath, Somerset in 1825, but they married in Newport, Monmouthshire in 1847.
William Dinham only served in the role until March 1850; the reasons for his dismissal seem to have been mainly about a need to save money, though some local ratepayers expressed concerns about his performance.
Mr Justice Erle agreed to consider the jury's recommendation and to defer sentence until the following morning in order to make enquiries about the extent of her husband's influence.
In his Day Book, the Royal Navy surgeon, Lennox T Cunningham recorded: "Eliza Denham, aged 13 months, Prisoner's Child; disease or hurt, diarrhoea.
On arrival, Dinham was registered in the convict records with the following description:- Ann Dinham, 4' 11", 23, black hair, grey eyes, milliner and dressmaker, Convicted Monmouth Assizes 8 August 1851, 10 years, for inciting a person to commit a burglary, Native place - Gloucestershire, Married - 2 children, Church of England, read and write, Husband William in America, Father - James.
It is difficult to see how this can have possibly been true given what is known now about Dinham's life in England, so is perhaps evidence of the general prejudice against female convicts that Robert Hughes described in The Fatal Shore.
In December 1859 he sponsored the passage of Dinham's sister, Maria, and her husband, William Thornbury, as free settlers in Tasmania.
[16] Foster's business interests included extensive land holdings both in Tasmania and on the Australian mainland, the ownership of several ships, and directorships in several Tasmanian companies, in banking, insurance, transport, coal and gas.
At the time of her marriage to Foster, she was described as the widow of Charles Riddiford and that her maiden name was Orchard; there was no mention of her first married name, Dinham.
The family had a very comfortable existence, with the children attending boarding schools and holidays that included spending a month in Paris.
[16] In Tasmania, she is remembered on the Foster family memorial in Cornelian Bay Cemetery, Hobart and on the Convict Brick Trail, in Campbell Town.
In 1833, John's younger brother, Henry Foster, had had a daughter with Sarah Grayson,[19] a woman assigned to work at their property.
Glover's paper, Where the two rivers meet, presented at the "Colonial Eye" conference at the University of Tasmania in 1999, tells the stories of the two women and contrasts the stark differences in their experiences.