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Voyage
Transportation
Susannah Gough was transported on the Friendship, departing 13th May 1787 and arriving 21st Jan 1788 with 107 passengers.
This convict ship, being 274 tons and 75 feet long was one of the light weight ships in the fllet and was skippered by Master Francis Walton. Built in Scarborough in 1784, she carried 76 male and 21 female convicts. During her return voyage to England her crew came down with scurvy and with insufficient crew to man her, she was scuttled in the straights of Macassar. The survivors were transferred to the Alexander.
FriendshipReferences
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Claims
"4x great grandmother - First Fleet"
"4th Grt Grandmother"
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Convict Notes
The Austral-Asiatic Review, Tasmanian and Australian Advertiser (Hobart Town, Tas. : 1837 - 1844) Tue 29 Jun 1841 DEATH.—On Thursday last, at her residence, Sandy Bay, aged 78, Mrs. SUSAN GARTH, mother of Mrs. Maum and Mrs. Bellett, of Clarence Plains, and Mrs. Ballantyne, of this town. Mrs. Garth embarked from England in Her Majesty's store ship Guardian, Captain Sir Edward Rion, which, it will be recollected, was nearly lost by striking on an island of ice, between the Cape of Good Hope and New Holland ; she was afterwards the first female who landed at the original settlement of Norfolk Island. Mrs. Garth was much regarded by all the old inhabitants, a numerous and respectable body of whom attended her funeral yesterday.
Claimed to be the first woman to step ashore on Norfolk Island
Susannah Gough married Edward Garth, fellow convict on Norfolk Island and had several children on Norfolk before transferring to Hobart.
Death registration: District of Hobart, VDL. Ref. 35/1/1/ no. 72. Susannah GARTH, female, 78 yrs of age, cause - apoplexy.
Susannah Garth was tried at Old Bailey, London on 10 September 1783 for stealing cash with a value of 199 shillings. http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/browse.jsp?id=t17830910-59-defend729&div=t17830910-59#highlight She was sentenced to transportation for 7 years and left England on the Friendship aged about 24 at that time (May 1787). She had no occupation recorded. She died in 1841 Partner in the original crime was Elizabeth Dudgens. Guilty of return from transport following the Mercury mutiny.Report from Dunkirk hulk was that she was behaving “better than formerly”.Married Edward Garth in 1795 – a daughter had been born to them in 1789 and they had six more children in later years.