Hobart Town, November 1839
Hobart Town, November 1839Carrying her five-month-old infant Susanna, Catherine watched as the driver loaded her belongings into the back of the buggy. It wasn’t a long way from her home in Murray Street to the Hobart waterfront, but too far to carry a baby and push her belongings along. She had the money from the sale of her first husband’s flour mill, and the sale of the house he bought for them when his seven-year sentence ended. With one last glance at the home she thought she saw Teddy standing in the doorway, waving to her. Closing her eyes tight and opening them again, he’d disappeared.
Her husband James Blay Jr went to South Australia in January leaving her, three months with child, to live with her two married daughters. When told about the expected ba
