Susannah Alleta Nicholson

   Cause of her death was abdominal cancer.

  General Notes:

Jason Crosskey passed on a website by Tim Hill where it is noted:
Susannah was born in Bowning NSW, the fifth surviving child of Scottish parents. It is most likely that her name christitian and middle names were in memory of Susannah Alletta McCallum, who died at the age of fourteen whilst swimming in the Murrumbidgee. She was the eldest daughter of Archibald McCallum who owned the "Good Hope" homestead near Yass. Donald and Margaret, Argyle's grandparents, apparently lived there, working for the MacCallum family in the late 1840's. Our Susannah must have been conceived at about the time the other Susannah drowned.
She spent the first 9 years of life in the Yass district, and then another ten in the vicinity of Forbes.
At the age of twenty she became the mother of Frederick Hilton William Nicholson, but didn't disclose who the father was. She evidently didn't keep the child.
She married Michael Bourke, a miner, at the age of twenty four - and gave birth the same momentous day. She and Michael became the first matron and wardsman of Parkes District Hospital, and four more children were to follow.
Susannah and Michael moved to Stannifer and he became a publican, but died of alcoholic posioning there leaving her a widow with three children (and one on the way) at the age of 33.
She moved to Sydney and worked as a shopkeeper before re-marrying at the age of 37. She spent the last 20 years of her life with her new husband, dying at the age of 57 of cancer.

  Noted events in her life were:

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Susannah married Michael Lee Bourke on 26 Dec 1874 in Parkes, NSW Australia.¹¹⁰⁴ (Michael Lee Bourke was born on 23 Jun 1847 in Melbourne, Victoria Australia, christened on 12 Jul 1847 in St Patricks R C, Melbourne, Victoria Australia, died on 27 Nov 1883 in Liverpool Hospital, Sydney, NSW Australia and was buried in Waverley Cemetery, Sydney, NSW Australia.)

  Marriage Notes:

Tim Hill notes:
James was apparently born on the same day as his parent's wedding (although it is not known which of these two events happened first on this rather momentous day). James was to be the first of four children born to Michael and Susannah, but did not live much beyond his first birthday
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Susannah next married John Dalgety Thomson on 7 May 1888 in Wesleyan Parsonage, 379 King St. Newtown, Sydney, NSW Australia.¹¹⁰⁴ (John Dalgety Thomson was born circa 1859 in Glasgow, Lanarkshire Scotland, died on 13 Mar 1898 and was buried in Woronora Cemetery, near Sutherland, Sydney, NSW Australia, Presbyterian section Section C Grave 46.)