Career
By 1783, she had a new love. Her lover was in the British East India Company and stationed in Calcutta, so she left England for India. In 1783, she performed operatic parts in Calcutta, to tremendous applause, and her benefit night brought in "the astonishing sum of 12,000 rupees."
She was a passenger on the packet ship Nancy, whose captain, John Haldane, was her lover, when it wrecked and sank off the Isles of Scilly on 4 March 1784.
Her body, originally unidentified, was buried on Rosevear then reburied at Old Town Church on Street Mary"s in the Isles of Scilly.
The newspaper accounts of her death and how the body had been found "floating in her shift" with an infant at her bosom made her a tragic figure for the English press In September 2008, British divers claimed to have found the wreck of the Nancy, further out from the Isles of Scilly than was previously thought.