I have found her baptism record, 20 March 1867, parents Henry and Amelia. Middlesbrough, Yorkshire.
The 1871 UK Census had a terrible mistranscription as Savanah Sappit, living with her mother Amelia and siblings Alfred, Wallace, Henry, "Jno", and Amelia. She is the youngest child.
We have already seen her 1881 Census record.
She is back in the UK, with her parents, in the 1891 Census, as Susannah Hovey, daughter, married, 24 with a son Harry Hovey, 18 months, born Queensland, Australia. The inward passenger list for the "Ormuz" has Mrs Hovey and Infant arriving in London on the 9th January 1891, from Sydney via Melbourne, Adelaide, Colombo, Suez, Naples and Gibraltar.
So, now we have a surname to search again for Susannah in the QLD BMD, and indeed we can find the following marriage:
| 1886/C1724 | Hovey, | Thomas Douglass | to Soppilt, | Susannah |
The 1903 Australian Electoral Rolls have a Susannah and Thomas Hovey (a miner) living in North Queensland. Using the surname as a guide, we have children born to Thomas Douglas Hovey and Susannah Soppitt in Queensland before and after 1891:
| 1890/C13009 | Henry | Hovey | Thomas Douglas | Susannah Lowpitt |
| 1893/C6567 | Florence May | Hovey | Thomas Douglas | Susannah Soppitt |
| 1896/C5861 | Elizabeth | Hovey | Thomas Douglas | Susannah Soppitt |
No wonder I was having trouble finding her in the records - look at all the different attempts at transcribing her surname. However, I cannot find a death record for Susannah with the Hovey surname, and she disappears from the electoral rolls after 1908.
A death for a Thomas Hovey is recorded in 1910
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