Date of Conviction: 20/01/1818

Age at Conviction: 29

Crime Convicted of: Theft

Court Convicted at: Lancaster Quarter Sessions (held at The New Bailey, Salford)

Sentence Length: 7 Years

Ship Transported on: Maria

Where Arrived: Port Jackson, New South Wales

Departure Date: 15/05/1818

Arrival Date: 17/09/1818

Biography: Susannah was a single woman of Manchester. She had stolen clothes belonging to an R. Bradshaw. The ship’s surgeon recorded that she sprained her foot onboard and was given camphor oil for it. Several weeks later, she had a sudden attack of vomiting dark blood and severe abdmoninal pain as well as suffering from a urine infection. Susannah was bled and given nitric acid, potassium nitrate, phosphate waters and digitalis. Towards the end of the voyage she was given magnesium sulphate and a rub of turpentine for back pain. In New South Wales she married John Matthews (free) in April 1819 at St John’s, Parramatta but she died soon after in 1820 and was probably buried in the new Devonshire St Cemetery.