Susannah (Lellemont) Walters (abt. 1794 - 1840)

Born about 1794 in France [uncertain]

Wife of Aaron Walters — married 23 Jan 1815 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Descendants

Died 3 Jul 1840 at about age 46 in St Albans, New South Wales, Australia

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Biography

Susannah (Lellemont) Walters was a convict after the Third Fleet transported to New South Wales

Susannah Lellement was born about 1793 (Either France or England as a child of John Lallemont). She died on 03 Jul 1840^[1] in St Albans, New South Wales, Australia ( Walters Family Cemetery, St Albans, Row 1 Plot 1). . When she was 22, she married Aaron Walters, son of Francis Walters and Sarah Maddox, on 23 Jan 1815^[2] in St Phillips Church, Sydney, New South Wales,Australia (Minister: William Cowper. Denomination: Church of England. Witnesses: Ann Ireland and George Stacy).

Conviction: 01 May 1812 in Old Bailey, London, England (for feloniously stealing a £10 bank note from her employer) She arrived on 01 Jul 1812. She departed in Oct 1812.

Transported: 11 Nov 1812 from England (on board the EMU; bound for Hobart) Stranded: 17 Jan 1813 in Cape Verde islands (by American Privateers on the 'Holkar'. Rescued: Jan 1814 in Cape Verde islands, ,she arrived back in England in Jan 1814 (Place in prison hulk waiting for transportation). Transported again: 22 Feb 1814 from England (aboard the Broxbornebury) She arrived in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia on 28 Jul 1814 (on the Broxbornebury).

Burial: She was buried^[1] in St Albans, New South Wales, Australia ( Walters Family Cemetery, St Albans, Row 1 Plot 1 (With Harriett)).

Aaron Walters and Susannah Lellement had the following children:

AN INTERESTING JOURNEY TO AUSTRALIA

From a story in "The Carillon Chimes page 18-19" Contributed by Elizabeth Haddon, Life Member, and other sources. NAME: Susannah Lilbemont (or Lallemont or Lellement) (My GGG Grandmother)BORN: C 1796 France or possibly England Susannah was an 18 year old servant to Mr and Mrs Newton, chandler, of No 2, Temple St, White Friars, London, when she was tried at the Sixth Session of 1812 at the London Gaol Delivery (Old Bai- ley) for feloniously stealing on 1 May 1812 a £10 bank note from her employer. She had been living in the house about 10 months.

Also on trial was her father, John Lallemont (76?) for the same of- fence. He had tendered the note as payment for the sum of five and sixpence for some calico to John Tomlins, shopman to Savage and Lemming, 333 Oxford St. He had a notation in the gaol records of having been in Newgate before.

Susannah was found guilty and sentenced to death but recommended for mercy on account of her age. Her father was found not guilty. Susannah and 40 other female prisoners (some with babies) were put aboard a 40 foot brig the Emu. The Emu was well armed with 10 guns and had a crew of 22. They set sail for Hobart on the 11th November 1812 in convoy with the James Hay.

At this time England was embroiled in the Napoleonic wars and there were embargos on goods going to Europe and blockades on British port. The United States had also entered the conflict by clos- ing its ports to British ships, and in 1812 was involved in a conflict with the British over Canada. The British government also placed a ban on cotton imports from the United States. This war had a pro-found impact on the local industry and our Susannah.

Within a few weeks of departure the two boats had separated and on 30th November, the Emu was spotted by the U.S. ship the Holkar which was an 18 gun brig manned by 150 men, the little Emu was outmanned and out gunned.

With only the Captain Alexander Bisset and a gunner prepared to defend the Emu, there was no choice but to surrender. The Ameri- cans took Bisset, the crew and the convict women to the Cape Verde islands and were left on the island of St Vincent on 17 January 1813.

The Emu was taken to New York as a prize of war and was sold there.

Meanwhile the abandoned crew and women spent a very difficult 12 months. By the time they were rescued they were in condition of nakedness and starvation. Their rescuers from the Isabella took them from St Vincent and the women arrived back in England in early 1814.

Being convicted felons the women were not allowed to land but were held in a hulk in Portsmouth harbour until the next convict transport sailed to New South Wales.

Susannah eventually boarded the Broxbornebury, a much larger ship than the Emu, weighing about 720 tons, joining 120 other fe- male convicts for the journey south. They sailed from London on 22nd February 1814 and sailed in convoy with the Surry, another convict ship. Although only two women on board the Broxbornebury perished, the passengers and crew on the Surry fared much worse: 51 crew, convicts and soldiers, including the captain, died of typhus. There was no-one on board who could take the vessel through the heads of Port Jackson so despite the infections on board, some of Broxbornebury's crew boarded the Surry to come through the heads.

However, the authorities would allow the Surry to come no farther and here crew and passengers were made to camp on North Head un- til the typhus epidemic had cleared. Thus the North Head quarantine station was established.

Susannah, still only 20, disembarked from the Broxbornebury and was apparently taken to the women's factory at Parramatta.

The Broxbornebury lay in the harbour for a couple of weeks but on the day of her departure, her armourer, Aaron WALTERS, who had befriended our Susannah during the voyage, jumped ship to be with his love.

Susannah and Aaron were married on 23 January 1815 at St Phillips Sydney and settled at St Albans where their 6 daughters and 2 sons were born. Both are buried at St Albans.

All the children married descendants of convicts..

ELIZABETH m Richard Roberts, s/o David "Fortune" 1806

JANE m John Joseph Walker, s/o John Walker, "Duke of Portland" 1807

SUSANNAH m Charles Fernance, s/o John Fernance "General Hewitt" 1814(His wife Mary Green & children arrived on the "Broxbornebury" with her Mother)

AARON m 1st Jane Mitchell, 2nd Mary Ann Chapman, G-daughterof Sarah Chapman "Nile" (Sarah's son William George -Mary Ann's father -took his mother's name)

MOSES m Sarah Jurd , d/o of Daniel Jurd "Purseus"

SARAH m John Mathew Thompson, son of Mathew Pearson Thompson of "General Hewitt" (My GGGG Grandfather)(His wife Ann Earl & John Mathew also arrived on the "Broxbornebury")

ANN m John Mathew's brother William Earl Thompson also son of Mathew Pearson Thompson of "General Hewitt"

HARRIETT died as an infant 2F18120701.xml.

Conviction & Trial: The Old Bailey Trial.

526. JOHN LALLIMENT and SUSANNAH LALLIMENT were indicted for feloniously stealing, on the 1st of May , in the dwelling-house of John Newton , a 10 l. bank-note, his property ..

JOHN NEWTON. I live at No. 2, Temple-street, White Friars ..

Q. You have no partners in that house - A. No..

It is in the precinct of White Friars..

Q. What are you - A. A chandler . I am the house-keeper. I have no partner..

Q. When did this happen to you - A. On the 1st of May the note was taken out of a cash-box which I had..

Q. Why do you accuse these people of it - A. I thought it could be nobody else but this girl. The note was in a tin cash-box, in my room, up stairs. I left the box locked, and I found it locked in my bedroom. The woman prisoner was a servant to me. The ten-pound note was the undermost note in the box. There was fifteen pounds in the box in notes. The prisoner had lived with me ten months..

Q. What does your family consist of - A. Three children, my wife, myself, and my mother..

Q. And why do you accuse her of taking of it - A. I thought it was impossible any body else could take it. Nobody else was in the room but herself..

Q. Did you ever find your note - A. Yes. I knew the address of the note. I had it stopped at the bank, and traced it home to the father of the girl, with his name on it. The number of it was 5,567, a ten-pound; dated, 25th of February, 1812..

SUSANNAH LALLIMENT. My father is quite innocent..

JOHN KNIGHT. I am a constable. I apprehended the prisoners. I searched them, and found nothing at all; but I have got part of the produce of the ten pound note. I found a gown and a petticoat that they had purchased: this is it: I found it in the apartment where both of the prisoners lodged..

JOHN TOMLINS. I am shopman to Savage and Lemming, 333, Oxford-street. On Friday, the 23rd, of May, John Lalliment came to our house and bought calico to the amount of five and sixpence. I am sure he is the man. He tendered a ten pound band-note in payment. I wrote his name on the back of the note. There was no one with him..

JOHN PARKER . I am a clerk in the Bank. I produce the note, number 5567, dated 25th February, 1812, 10 l. Tomlin. That is the same note the prisoner passed to me..

Q. to Newton. Is that your note - A. Yes: I think the daughter must have given the note to the father. He was at our house on the Sunday. I think he must have taken it away then. He seldom would come to the house and ask for the girl in a proper manner. He used to come about the house and make a motion to her to come to him. He seldom came into the house: she never went up stairs..

Susannah Lalliment's Defence. My father is not guilty. I brought away the note to him. I asked my mistress leave to go out. She gave me leave. She said I should go out after tea. My mistress told me, if I did not give her the note, she would have me searched. I was searched; and I went home to my father. He said, what brought you here? I said, I have left my place. I asked my father for four shillings and a halfpenny; he gave it me. I took it to my mistress; and, on my coming back, I gave my father the note. I told him I found the note in the street..

Prosecutor. She left me on account of the note. Mrs. Newton did not think proper of keeping her on account of this note..

Susannah Lalliment . I often found money in the lodgers rooms. The last money I found was three shillings. I told my mistress. She said, you put it up on his drawers. I said, if I thought he put it there to try me, I would keep it. She said I should be much to blame if I did not. I did not put it on the drawer. I kept it. When I saw the young man, I told him. He said, put it on the table. When I saw this note, I could neither read nor write. It struck me it was put there to see whether I would take it..

JURY. Q.to prosecutor. She says the note was put there. She does not say where..

Prosecutor. I am certain it was locked up in my tin box, in my bed-room..

John Lalliment was not put on his defence..

JOHN LALLIMENT , NOT GUILTY ..

SUSANNAH LALLIMENT , GUILTY - DEATH , aged 18..

[The prisoner was recommended to mercy, on account of her youth.].

London Jury, before Mr. Recorder..

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Sources

https://familyhistory.bdm.nsw.gov.au (New South Wales Birth, Death and Marriage Registry)

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Death & Burial: Hawkesbury on the Net Inscription, for Susannah Lellement b, about 1793 d. 03 Jul 1840.
2. ↑ Marriage: V18151727 3A/1815 WALTERS AARON LELLEMENT SUSANNAH CA

Find a Grave memorial #155478806, Susannah Lalliment Walters, b. 1794, d. 3 Jul 1840.

Acknowledgments

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