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Susannah Noon was probably the first female convict emancipist from New South Wales to settle in the South Island of New Zealand. Susannah was about 12 years old when she was convicted of the theft of four pairs of stockings by fraudulent means from a hosiers shop in Colchester, England. She was convicted at the Essex Quarters Sessions on 30 April 1810 and sentenced to seven years’ transportation. Susannah left England on the ''Friends'' convict ship bound for New South Wales in April 1811.〔Quarter Sessions, Easter 1810, Essex Record Office, D/B5Sr387〕 At the age of about 14, Susannah married fellow convict William Docwra (aka Dockerell) on 25 November 1811 at St Matthews, Windsor, NSW. About 1820, the couple moved to Sydney where they ran a shop at 68 George Street. William died on 22 January 1824.〔Marriage register, St Matthews, Windsor, 25 November 1811〕〔Sydney Gazette, 29 January 1824, p. 3〕 On 15 October 1825, Susannah married Samuel Cave at St James, Sydney, despite the fact that he was a newly arrived convict transported for bigamy.〔Marriage register, entry no. 44, St James Church, Sydney, 15 October 1825, 〕〔Carlisle Assizes, 24 August 1824, England & Wales Criminal Registers, www.ancestry.com〕 Daughter Ann was born on 20 November 1827,〔St Philips Church baptism register, 23 December 1827, Society of Australian Geneaologists, Sydney〕 daughter Susannah was born on 20 April 1830,〔St Philips Church baptism register, 9 May 1830, Society of Australian Geneaologists, Sydney〕 and son Charles Samuel was born on 4 February 1835.〔St Philips Church baptism register, 6 February 1835, Society of Australian Genealogists, Sydney〕 Another daughter Eliza, born in 1831, died as an infant.〔St Philips Church baptism register, 14 April 1833; burial register 23 April 1833, Society of Australian Genealogists, Sydney〕 Samuel was largely an absentee husband, initially detained for further misdemeanours in the colony and then, as a cooper, working offshore in the whaling industry. During his absence, Susannah lost the shop in George Street and was eventually declared insolvent. Samuel finally gained his certificate of freedom on 17 May 1834.〔Certificate of Freedom, 17 May 1834, NSWSR Reel 992, No. 34/0599 4/4321 〕 On 9 December 1837, Susannah and her children left NSW with Samuel on the ''Vanguard'' to go and live in a shore-based whaling station in Ocean Bay, Port Underwood, in the South Island of New Zealand.〔Vanguard’s departure, Sydney Herald, 14 December 1837, p. 2 〕 On 24 June 1843, Susannah gave a deposition to the magistrates investigating the fight on the inland Wairau Plain between Maori led by Te Rauparaha and the Nelson colonists led by Captain Arthur Wakefield. Te Rauparaha and his warriors had stopped at her house in Ocean Bay en route to the Wairau.〔Susannah’s deposition, 24 June 1843 (filed under) ‘Tua Marina Monument’, Archives New Zealand, Wellington, 1A/1/1870/3598 〕 Susannah and her family remained in Port Underwood until 1847 when they shifted to Nelson.〔William Boyce’s obituary, Colonist, 18 March 1895, p. 2 〕 Susannah died in Nelson on 30 June 1852. Her age was given as 52 but this conflicts with the Sydney records. It is known only that she was born somewhere between 1797 and 1800.〔NZBDM〕 Susannah’s story and those of the other women of the convict ship ''Friends'' has been meticulously researched by New Zealand author Elsbeth Hardie and was published in 2015 as ''The Girl Who Stole Stockings''. The non fiction book examines the background to convict transportation to NSW in the early nineteenth century, the convict regime that was in place in NSW during the tenure of Governor Lachlan Macquarie, and as Susannah’s story moved to New Zealand, the book provides an overview of the dangerous and ultimately ill-fated shore-based whaling industry of early New Zealand.〔Hardie, Elsbeth, 2015. The Girl Who Stole Stockings, Australian Teachers of Media Inc. (ATOM), Melbourne, Australia. ISBN 9781876467241 〕 ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Susannah Noon」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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