----- Original Message ----- From: "Maddy Duke" <maddyduke@btinternet.com> To: <aus-convicts@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2009 7:34 PM Subject: Re: [AUS-CON] James and Sarah BOWRING > Hi Lesley, > No I am not descended from them but I am interested in tracing their > family > as I am working on a social history of Dorset prisoners (19th > century) and > they are the first couple I have come across who were both > transported > leaving a large number of children behind (possibly). Hi Maddy The second item in http://heritagegenealogy.com.au:80/blog/ may help with some back ground info I have an index on fiche that I bought some time ago re free passengers and crew on convict ships into Sydney 1830-1840 Interestingly this lists BOWERING ( female infant) per Kains....... notes state child was 3 yo mother, Sarah BOWERING ,convict on board If you go to http://ndpbeta.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/home > select advanced search > type in Kains from 11 Mar 1831 - 11 Apr 1831 select Sydney Gazette > find. some 19 refs to the Kains appear When you post on a foreign mailing list it helps you and us if you give a clue to your location Very few refs to BOWRING/ BOWERING in the NSW BDMs Bye MargM Beautiful NSW Central Coast NSW

Thank you for the information and link, extremely interesting. It is great to know she took the youngest with her and I will work on the local records here in Dorset to see if I can trace her other children. It would also be good to try to track whether James and Sarah set up home together once they were freed. Kind regards Maddy In deepest Dorset - still and grey here! Hi Maddy The second item in http://heritagegenealogy.com.au:80/blog/ may help with some back ground info I have an index on fiche that I bought some time ago re free passengers and crew on convict ships into Sydney 1830-1840 Interestingly this lists BOWERING ( female infant) per Kains....... notes state child was 3 yo mother, Sarah BOWERING ,convict on board If you go to http://ndpbeta.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/home > select advanced search > type in Kains from 11 Mar 1831 - 11 Apr 1831 select Sydney Gazette > find. some 19 refs to the Kains appear When you post on a foreign mailing list it helps you and us if you give a clue to your location Very few refs to BOWRING/ BOWERING in the NSW BDMs Bye MargM Beautiful NSW Central Coast NSW ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to AUS-CONVICTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message