Susannah Susan Best

NAME

• 1828 Census - Susan GILBERT age 5 born in colony
• Headstone Susan beloved wife of William BEST who departed this life December 26 1865 aged 43 & 5 months

Susan GILBERT and Wiliam BEST had the following 12 children

• Susannah 1841
• William 1842
• John Thomas 1844
• Samuel Gilbert 1846
• Maria Jane 1848
• Hannah 1850
• Mary 1851
• George 1854
• Robert Holt 1856
• Martha Amanette 1858
• Louisa Alberta 1860
• Evalina Amelia 1863

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Born on 7th August, 1822 at Parramatta. Baptized on 2nd. June 1823 at St. John's Church at Parramatta.

Died on 27th December 1865, at Prospect.

She married William Best on 11th August, 1840, at Parramatta. He was born on 9th April, 1816 at Seven Hills. He was the son of convict, George Best, who had been transported here to serve seven years and who had arrived in the "William & Ann" in 1791, and convict Martha Chamberlain who had come here in the "Indispensible" in 1797 to serve seven years as well. William Best was the licensee of the Kangaroo and Emu Inn on the Windsor Road in 1847, and later he became a wealthy pastoralist in the Wagga Wagga area, and at Tangmangaroo, near Yass. He died on 3rd October, 1902 at Seven Hills.

They had six children.

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