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Susannah BRELSFORD

This page last updated:  19-Nov-2003

Abodes     Aliases     Baptism     Birth     Burial     Children     Death     Doing the Time     Education     Marriage     Provision     Siblings     Transportation     Trial

Birth

c1790
Newcastle Upon Tyne district
Northumberland, England

to
James BRELSFORD
and
Mary HALL

Baptism

(unknown)

Death

7 September 1844
Launceston, TAS

of
inflammation of the lungs

aged
53 years

(more information)

Burial

(unknown)

Marriage

4 March 1811
St John's Church
Launceston, TAS

to
Robert BEAMS

(more information)

Education

illiterate or semiliterate (read)

Children

Edward BEAMS
(1809 - ???)

James BEAMS
(c1812 - 1898)

Mary BEAMS
(c1814 - 1843)

Eleanor BEAMS
(1816 - 1842)

Robert BEAMS
(1817 - 1911)

Ann BEAMS
(1820 - 1875)

Susannah BEAMS
(1822 - 1875)

Elizabeth BEAMS
(1825 - 1865)

Emma BEAMS
(1827 - ???)

Diana BEAMS
(1830 - ???)

Catherine BEAMS
(c1832 - ???)

Siblings

(unknown)

Abodes

c1790 - Newcastle Upon Tyne, Northumberland, England

1811 - County of Cornwall, TAS

1818-1821 - George Town, TAS

1821-1824 - Norfolk Plains, TAS

1844 - Launceston, TAS

Aliases

Susan BRELSFORD

Susannah BREASLSFORD

Susannah BRESLSFORD

Susannah BRERSFORD

Susannah BEAMS

Transportation

per Sydney Cove

departing Falmouth
11 January 1807

arriving Sydney
18 June 1807

Trial

16 July 1806
Newcastle Quarter Sessions
Northumberland, England

for
theft

7 years transportation

(more information)

Doing the Time

1806 - c1813
(7 of 7 years)

(more information)

Provision

15 October 1819 - on the stores

Death

Susannah died on 7 September 1844 in Launceston aged 53 years.  She died of inflammation of the lungs.  Her son Robert (who was living at Enfield) registered her death two days later on 9 September 1844.  Robert was illiterate as he made his mark (X) on her death certificate.

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Doing the Time

Susannah arrived in Van Diemen’s Land from Sydney sometime between 1807 and 1811 subsequently being assigned in the Port Dalrymple area.  

She was listed as being a resident in the County of Cornwall at the 1811 muster, taken at Port Dalrymple on 30 June 1811.

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Marriage

Robert BEAMS married Susannah BRELSFORD at St John’s Church, Launceston on 4 March 1811.  They were married by Banns by Robert KNOPWOOD.  This was only the seventh marriage performed in the north of the Van Diemen's Land!

Witnesses to the marriage were W HENRY and Js MACCONNELL.  Both Robert and Susannah were single at the time of the marriage and living in Launceston.

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Trial

Susannah was tried at the Newcastle Assizes on 16 July 1806.  She was found guilty of the theft of wearing apparel and sentenced to 7 years transportation.  

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