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| Cause of Death: Heart Failure & Senility Listed on the 1903 Victorian Electoral Roll as a Gentlewoman, she lived with her daughter Susan Hooper Married: (firstly) 12 Dec 1840 THOMAS GOLD Parish Church, Aberystruth, Monmouth. Married: (secondly) 12 Feb 1852 STEPHEN WARLOW Siloh Chapel, Abergavenny, William Williams, Minister, Witnesses: Elizabeth Ham & Leah Edwards [Source: Les Smith compilations] [OLD INFO: Married 1837 stephen warlow in their birth place. Died 91 Tanner st Richmond] |
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| SUSANNAH EDWARDS Born: c1815 Monmouthshire, Wales Baptised: 8 Jan 1815 Flint, Meliden, Clwd, Wales Died: 20 Nov 1896 Doncaster (13112/1896) age 84 years Cause Of Death: Heart Failure Married: (firstly) 16 Dec 1837 JAMES NICHOLAS Parish Church of Mynnyddslwyn, Pantdu, Gwent, Wales, Witnesses John Edwards & David Jones Twenty-five year old Susannah arrived in Port Phillip in December 1841 with her first husband James NICHOLAS and their 3 year old son David. Susannah and James were natives of Monmouthshire in south Wales, and had embarked in Bristol on the WARD CHIPMAN a little over 3 months previously. The journey was dreadful, with inadequate provisions of water and contaminated tinned food contributing to the deaths of 19 children during the voyage. The couple arrived at the height of an Australian summer, in a new settlement in the depths of a severe economic depression, and Susannah was heavily pregnant. Susannah and James had another 6 children (Thomas, who died before they left for Australia, James, Thomas, Lewis, Susannah, who died young, Margaret and renaming another child Susannah who also died young) before she was widowed in about 1851, at the beginning of the Victorian gold rush. At St Stephen's Church in Richmond in 1852, Susannah married James DAVIES who also hailed from her home county of Monmouthshire in Wales. James DAVIES was 10 years younger than Susannah. The couple lived in the suburbs of Richmond and Hawthorn and over the following 10 years Susannah had 6 more children (Ann, Leah, Walter, Septimus, Edward and John James). In 1864 Susannah was widowed for the second time. Her husband James Davies, a wood carter, was bitten by a snake and died 29 hours later. Susannah was left alone to raise her 6 children by James who were all under 10 years of age. No doubt Susannah's older children by her first husband, who ranged in age from 15 to 25, were able to help. In a city with no running water and inadequate sewerage disposal, with an unsurprisingly high infant death rate from gastro-intestinal and respiratory diseases, all but 1 of Susannah's 12 children survived to adulthood. However, she was not entirely spared further untimely deaths in the family. Between 1876 and 1893 Susannah buried 10 grandchildren in her 3 grave plots at Boroondara cemetery. In 1896 Susannah herself was finally buried alongside those 10 infants, her second husband and 2 sons. Susannah DAVIES, formerly NICHOLAS, nee EDWARDS, was illiterate, unable even to sign her own name. Despite being twice widowed she successfully raised her many children, and died at an advanced age in the land she had called her home for 56 years. (Information supplied by Megan Davidson) Susannah Nicholas (nee Edwards) born c1812 Monmouthshire, Wales died 20th Nov 1896 Doncaster (13112/1896). Parents: Thomas Edwards born 1783 Mynyddiswlyn, Monmouthshire, Wales, died 23 Jan 1858 Abergavenny, Aberystruth, county Monmouth. Susannah James born c1785 Wales, died 3 Dec 1868 Bedwelly, Aberystruth, County Monmouth, father listed as Lewis James. James & Susannah were married 22 Oct 1814 Church of Banks, District of Landuff The names of Thomas Edwards and Susannah Unknown appear on the death certificates of Susannah and her sister Rachel Susannah and James Nicholas migrated to Port Phillip, aboard the ship “Ward Chapman” leaving Bristol on 18 Aug 1841 arriving 6 Dec 1841 There is nothing known of James Nicholas, except that he appeared on his children’s birth certificates, It is thought that he was born in Wales c1815 and died in Victoria c1851, as there is no record of his death (NOTE: 1841 Wales Census also states a child Thomas Nicholas age 6 weeks at time of Census, but he is not listed on the Ward Chapman, did he die before they left or on board the ship) [Source: Les Smith's compilation] [OLD info: sister to Rachel Edwards. Surname listed in one tree as Jones] |
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| THOMAS EDWARDS Born: 1783 Mynyddiswlyn, Monmouthshire, Wales. Died: 23 Jan 1858 Cwmyrdderch, Abergavenny, Aberystruth, County of Monmouth (858/1858 Wales) Cause of Death: Plerevitis Occupation: Farmer Married: 22 Oct 1814 SUSANNAH JAMES Church of Banks, District of Landuff, Witnesses: John Miles & Lewis James (father) |
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