Summary
Personal Information
Voyage
Transportation
Susannah Shaddock was transported on the Earl Cornwallis, departing 31st Jul 1800 and arriving 12th Jun 1801 with 298 passengers.
Earl Cornwallis (generic)References
| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 87, Class and Piece Number HO11/1, Page Number 276 |
| Source Description | This record is one of the entries in the British convict transportation registers 1787-1867 database compiled by State Library of Queensland from British Home Office (HO) records which are available on microfilm as part of the Australian Joint Copying Pro |
| Original Source | Great Britain. Home Office |
| Compiled By | State Library of Queensland |
| Database Source | British convict transportation registers 1787-1867 database |
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Convict Notes
There is little information available on Susannah Shaddock, also known as Susan Shadwick. She arrived aboard the Wall Cornwallis in 1800, at some point owned property with James Lewis in Sydney. She moved to Hobart in 1805. There is circumstantial evidence that she had a long term relationship with James Lewis, and they owned property in Sydney together. They also probably had a daughter Sarah, born in Sydney in 1802. To complicate the picture there were several convicts named James Lewis the Colony at the time. Researchers looking for the parents of Sarah Lewis have concluded that the most likely candidate was the James Lewis alias Druce who arrived on the Hillsborough in 1799 (Fay Fry, The Watkins Chronicle, 1988). The same researchers struggled to identify Sarah's mother. There are several critical points where Susannah, James and Sarah can be placed in the same locations at the same time. This James is recorded as marrying Catherine Conway, Earl Cornwallis on 1807. The only Catherine Conway on the records seems to have arrived on the Blackfriar in 1851. It is possible that the wrong name was recorded at the time of the marriage, and the other likely candidates (women named Catherine who were on the Earl Cornwallis) cannot be placed in Hobart at the time of the marriage. Based on the known facts that Sussanah owned property with James Lewis in Sydney (there was clearly some association at that time) and they were both in Hobart in 1807, it is a reasonable chance that James and Sussanah were married and that Sarah Lewis was their daughter. Some sources claim she died in 1886, either in Newcastle ir St Leonards. I have come to doubt this and believe it is based on an infant child named Catherine Lewis, daughter of Henry and Ellen Lewis. The convict records are confused by the use of phonetic spellng (where names were spelled as the scribe heard them). The Settler and Convict lists from 1820 and 1821 seem to list Susanna as 'Chaddock' or 'Chadwick'. The place and year of trial matches Susanna Shadwick. These lists place Susan as 'married in Sydney'. An 1818 list includes a 'Susannah Shaddock' who arrived on Earl Conwallis, but has the wrong place of trial. This list suggests she left the colony with the 73rd regiment headed for Ceylon. She may have married a soldier. Annother list in 1819 lists her as 'Dead'.