Chris wrote: I wish Gov. Hunter's Report WAS online. It isn't. It is ... ancestry have placed it on the server with no permission A Government Order was issued on 7 November 1798 requesting that "every Officer or other Housekeeper in the Colony who may have women servants in their Family" immediately forward the names of such as they employ in their respective Families. There was no response from any Hawkesbury residents, which indicates that the resulting report is incomplete. The results of the Government order became known as Governor Hunter's Assignment List. This being the Return of convict women in the services of Officers or other Households 1798 (SRNSW, COD 197 ref:SZ767 pp.155 - 157). Governor Hunter's Women Convict Report gives a list of women's name to who they were assigned to ... no other details. And yes there were many women convicts missing from the list We index the list and did some additional research back in 1995. I have been organising South Coast Maritime & History Expo which is on for the next two days - http://www.blessingofthefleet.info/maritimeexpo/ Afterwards I will answer all the emails on Sarah Evans Cathy Dunn

Cathy wrote: >ancestry have placed it on the server with no permission I hold no brief for Ancestry, but for the two reasons given below, I think it could be that maybe they (as an organisation) weren't the ones who did it. It could be that some individual has attached it as a document to their own family tree on Ancestry - still without permission, but perhaps not quite as bad? One of my reasons is that try as I might I cannot find the report from within www.ancestry.com.au - the only way I can get to it is by clicking on Trish's link, which she actually discovered by googling. My other reason is that the URL that Trish gave is quite like the URLs for photos or documents attached to public trees in Ancestry. Well, it's a theory, anyway. Sue