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Born 1801 bapt.15th March 1801 Ilketshall St. Andrew, Suffolk, d/o Benjamin & Elizabeth Smith. Gave birth to Illeg. son George Smith 1818.
Marr. David Everson 21 July 1823 at Redisham. Eight children.
David Everson was convicted of stealing corn & meal December 1832. Transported NSW 7 years.
Had 2 more illeg. children after husband transported.
1841 CENSUS - HALESWORTH, SUFFOLK. All born in Suffolk.
Everson, Maria (sic) 40 Wash woman
Everson, Mary 18
Everson, Hepzibah 16
Everson, David 13
Everson, Louisa 11
Everson, Matilda 10
Everson, Eli 9
THE IPSWICH JOURNAL - 6 July 1844:
Margaret Everson, 42, pleaded guilty to a charge of having stolen one coloured cotton handkerchief, of the value of 7d. the property of John Marshall of Halesworth.
The prisoner, who had an infant in her arms, appeared to be ill.
The Chairman, in passing sentence said, Margaret Everson, you have pleaded guilty to the present charge, and also to being the same person who was previously convicted, and I am sorry to know that you have been leading a life of systematic pilfering, and that you are training up your family in similar habits, and we therefore think that we shall be acting mercifully towards you, your family, and the neighbourhood in which you have been living, by removing you from this country, and we trust that the sentence we are about to pass upon you will have a better effect than the previous punishments received on summary convictions, and that, should you like to return to this country, you will be found a better character. The sentence of the Court is that you be transported for seven years.
The prisoner applied that her baby might "go over the water" with her.
The Chairman said he had no power to make such an order, but an application to the proper authorities would have proper attention.
Embarked on the convict ship "Tory" at Woolwich. Eventually sailing on the 22nd March 1845 bound for Van Dieman's Land, without the baby, who was taken in by her eldest brother George Smith & his wife at Halesworth, Suffolk.
Assumed name of Mira on arrival in Hobart. On a Muster of Convicts in Hobart we learn of Margaret/Mira's previous offences. She had previously stolen a packet of handkerchiefs from a window for which she had served 12 months imprisonment. She had served 13 weeks for a riot. She was married with 8 children. Surgeon's report stated she has been quiet & industrious. She was stated to be a professed cook, baker, mangler and laundress.
Description: 5ft. 3 and a qtr. inches tall, aged 42. Sallow complexion & long head. Hair light brown. Long visage. Forehead high. Eyebrows brown. Eyes grey. Long nose. Mouth wide. Chin round. Spoke through her nose. Native place St. Andrews, Suffolk.
Husband David Everson had been transported to N.S.W. 13 yrs previously. children all full grown at native place. Brothers Benjamin, William Robert, Samuel & sister Lucy all at St. Andrews.
Mira had recorded a Period of Labour of 6 months Class 2 from the 13th January 1846 to 3rd May 1846. No record has been found which tells us to whom, or where, she was placed as an assigned convict. She applied for a Ticket of Leave on the 6th January 1849. This was granted on the 6th March, 1849. Received her Certificate of Freedom on the 8th July 1851.
No record found for her following her Certificate of Freedom. Marriage & Deaths Indexes checked - no record found. Tasmanian Genealogy Society found no trace of her in other convict records or in Passenger Lists of ships leaving Tasmania.
Husband David Everson died 27th January 1860 at Lime Kilns, Roxborough, in the Bathurst region, N.S.W. He died of injuries accidentally received by a fall from his horse.
The informant on the Death Certificate was Thomas Hamond, a neighbour. He was buried at Lime Kilns on the 30th January, 1860.
Submitted by Researcher (10955) on 27 April 2019
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- The National Archives (TNA) : HO 11/14, p.257
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