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Well, he's not strictly mine yet..... I havent traced that branch quite that far back yet.......... but I am reasonably certain he will at the very least be connected to me!!

My dad will be mortified.... it's bad enough that this is the same line as his illigitimate grandfather........ dad wouldn't speak to me for weeks over that one, lol!!

Love

Daff xxx

ROFL It's always fun to have someone interesting in the mix ;-))

Should I be offering congrats?? PMSL

pmsl exciting when you find some juicy gossip lol

congrats

luv
stray
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Congratulations Daff!.....at least one of yours got to go to sunnier climes.....all my convicts stayed in this country.


Susan
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Update:....any chance of a holiday when you finally trace them?......spect they might go into hiding when they find out your connection though :-))))))))

~~~~~~~~~~ welcome 2 the club hun wish i could find out more about mine though lol

Think I've found a rellie on OH's tree who died in the Crimean War.No convicts or royals yet.

Lol Daff,


I have brawlers, brothel keepers and someone who murdered their wife, all so interesting isnt it?


And mine are just current family pmsl!!!


Caz xxxxxxxxxx

Have you tried the 'Trace a Convict' or Black Sheep sites IOM....lots of info on convicts there....and also lots of other Australian sites too.

one of mine was transported to Oz in 1833 for sending his employer a threatening letter!! don't know if he survived the trip or not, or if he came back even

Susan.... they'll run a mile, lol. Cheeky monkey!!

This chap was transported in the 1780's... tha furthest I've got back in that line is my 4xgt grandfather born around then... same name!!

I don't know what he was sent there for yet..... found it when I was looking for my Aunty Olive, who died in Dar Es Salaam in the 1950's.. and it is her father's line, isn't that spooky? lol!!

The other side of the family were all ultra conservative and very devout Bible Christians, so this is a beauty!

~~~~~~ waves excitedly ~~~~~~~~ to everyone, lol!!

Thanks for that tip.... will go and have a look now..... or tomorrow when my brain works better!

Love

Daff xxx

Ooh! I am envious, all mine seem to be goody goodies. Well except Gt Gt grandfather who absconded to France and disappeared off the face of the earth!

Ann
Glos

I got one who committed bigamy twice, and went on to rob a bank at gunpoint. He was my dads brother. OMG it is exciting. LOL

PS i obviously dont take after him xx

Lol..... this feels like I am a fully paid up member of the brigands club, lol... poor bloke probably only stole a loaf or sommat!!

It's finds like this that make it all worth while... still haven't found out too much... Ancestry won't let me back in... but I can see his name there, bold as brass... in New South Wales... now isn't that strange, as 100 years later... many members of the family moved to South Wales, uk! (They were from Devon and Cornwall originally)

Love

Daff...xxxx guess what I'll be doing tomorrow????

ERR. robbing a bank, theft petty or major, or just getting yourself arrested, be careful xxxx. Will watch skey news in case you need rscuing!!!!!!

I have a chap who married in 1849 and was sent to Reading Gaol for assaulting another woman the following year. Can't have been a nice chap. And a few others including one who was transported for nicking a shawl, poor bugger.

OH's tree is far more interesting convict wise. We have one in every generation down to his uncle, brother and nephew lol

lol Al... will you bail me out? wmsl!!

David mine have all been such goody two shoes I could weep... except this line, and as it is also my own maiden name I just feel as though a splash of exotica has come into my life!! I know it is sad, but I am just sooooo determined to find a link... the name is unusual, so there is sure to be a connection of sorts!

Love

Daff xxxx

Course i'll bail you out. Might need to start a collection first depends what you do. Keep it simple please xxxx

I have a convict on the 1st fleet to Oz 1787/88,well he is the brother of my 5 g.grandfather.
Over the week-end I was trawling through the 1600/1900 Newspapers on line (as shown on Tips board) and think I found another of the same family 25 years later.
Not checked this through yet as I only found the Newspaper announcement,and it didn't state a ship,or whether he actually went for the 7 years transportation he was given.
In Oz they are very proud of their convict ancestors!

One of my rellies was in a prison in Oxford in 1841 and was sent to Australia that year he had a 7 year sentence but i don't know what he did, he died over there in 1865.

Daff

Welcome to the Australian Aristocracy!

xxxxx mick