G'day I've just started tracing Charles McClellan (often spelt McLaulin, McLelan and as many variants as you can imagine) who was the youngest convict at 14yo to settle on Norfolk Island with the First Fleet on 6th March 1788. Records on Norfolk revealed he left the island on 5th January 1793 onboard the US ship Philadelphia bound for China, but I can't find anything since that entry. Could anyone give me suggestions on where I might look now...new to genealogy and googling didn't give me any answers. Thanks heaps HC ;-)

"HC" <IHateSpam@home.com> wrote in message news:47772894$1@dnews.tpgi.com.au... > G'day > > I've just started tracing Charles McClellan (often spelt McLaulin, > McLelan and as many variants as you can imagine) who was the youngest > convict at 14yo to settle on Norfolk Island with the First Fleet on 6th > March 1788. Records on Norfolk revealed he left the island on 5th > January 1793 onboard the US ship Philadelphia bound for China, but I > can't find anything since that entry. Could anyone give me suggestions > on where I might look now...new to genealogy and googling didn't give me > any answers. > > Thanks heaps > HC ;-) Wasn't able to google much either. Found a reference to a "brig trader Philadelphia" here going Norfolk to China... http://www.danbyrnes.com.au/merchants/merchants9a.htm "Capt Thomas Patrickson (probably Australian), for owner Capt Thomas Patrickson is on brig trader Philadelphia, to Sydney, then Norfolk Island, China, see HRA 1 (9), p. 47 and Churchward 1948; William H. Payne, Joseph Peabody;" "HRA 1 (9), p. 47" and "Churchward 1948" would seem to be references worth looking up. and again.. http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/AUS-PT-JACKSON-CONVICTS/2003-02/1046228609 "The Master of the Ganges was Thomas Patrickson who had visited the settlement in 1792 in the Philadelphia, a small American brig. It was the second foreign merchant ship to enter Port Jackson." Again that thread references "HRA" whatever that is? Might also be worth contacting the owner of this web site as Captain Thomas Patrickson seems to feature a lot in the transport of convicts to Australia around that time.. http://www.danbyrnes.com.au/blackheath/thebc41.htm http://www.danbyrnes.com.au Perhaps look for Charles McClellan in Australia?