The Life of Susan Jasper Featherstone
1821
Christened at Brook Street Independent in the village of Tavistock, Devon on 13 October 1821
1821-1837
Unknown whereabouts
1837
Aged 17 she was tried at the Exeter Quarter Sessions, Devon on 3 January 1837 and sentenced to 7 years transporation to Australia for stealing a shawl
May 1837
Transported to Tasmania, Australia aboard the Platina which left London 3 May 1837.
The Ship's Surgeon was Geo. Ellery Forman RN and a check of his log does not list Susan as receiving any medical attention during the voyage
October 1837
Arrived in Hobart Town, Tasmania on 22 October 1837
1841
Married George Jones in Hobart on 22 November 1841 well before her sentence expired. Her age shown as 25 on the marriage record conflicts with the age shown when she was convicted in 1837
1843
Prison record shows her term was twice extended for misconduct, once for 6 months for selling rum at Browns River in 1843 when she was already married - the total extension being for 24 months.
Susan's convict record
1841-1862
George and Susan had 13 children, the first born 3 months prior to the wedding.
1872
Susan took over the running of the farm on the death of her husband George on the 20 September 1872.
1874
Susan remarried a widowed cabman, Thos. John Vistirin in the house of Mrs Henwood near Kingston, Browns River. After 20 years of marriage Susan Vistirin (Vistrine) died in 1892 aged 68, which conflicts with her marriage age and her age when convicted
Thank you to John Bevis for much of the above information
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