 Her father set sail for England in 1801 and left Elizabeth and her sister Hannah in the care of James Larra, a prominent Sydney merchant and ex-convict, and his wife Susannah.Elizabeth was later described as the niece of Larra and it may be that her mother was sister to either Larra or his wife.In 1812, she married wealthy Scottish merchant Walter Lang and they had two sons before Walter died in 1816.