Susan Blight
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Background
Susan Pulford Blight and John Blight were married in Stoke Damerel, Devon, England on 11 August 1844. There is an interesting story of their journey by Sue Reid. [1] Apparently John Blight left for Australia on the Ellen leaving his pregnant wife Susan and his children in Plymouth. Susan sold his bakery business and boarded the Eliza sailing from Plymouth on 22 August 1852 with her sister-in-law Elizabeth Blight and her children. She then advertised in the Melbourne Argus each day for a week: Mr John Blight, per ship Helen [sic] from Liverpool, is requested to communicate with his wife, who has arrived in the Eliza. Address care of Dalgety, Gore, & Co. The child born soon after Susan's arrival in the Colony of Victoria was named Ellen Eliza Victoria Blight after the vessels they had emigrated upon, and the new colony in which they found themselves.
Her persistence won out and the family was reunited.
Susan and John Blight had six children: Nell born 3 January 1853, married John Harvey; Jane Watson Blight, married William Glover. John and Susan's death certificates record six children while John Blight's obituary records only five children. (Edith Louisa Blight had predeceased him in 1878). [2]
Goldfields Involvement, 1854
Post 1854 Experiences
See also
Further Reading
Corfield, J.,Wickham, D., & Gervasoni, C. The Eureka Encyclopaedia, Ballarat Heritage Services, 2004.
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