Hi Christene You mentioned the name Hamilton Hume, I am not a relative of his, but one family member still has that house that Hamilton built on Appin Road Campbelltown. It is now called "Meadowvale" My father actually passed away there in 1990 as he stayed at the house quite a lot and I have some lovely photos of the house and cottage. Would be interested to hear of some of the stories about him that you may have as in my family book I like to give a story about where the people lived. If that would be OK with your family. Regards Lynette ----- Original Message ----- From: "christene" <hartleyc@tpg.com.au> To: <aus-convicts@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 2:52 PM Subject: Re: [AUS-CON] Query: What is max # of direct convict ancestorsonecould have? >I have a few on my tree > Hamilton Hume father of Explorer > was a convict > John Taber was a teacher and started the > first private school in Sydney leaving a parcel of land > that he was given for the first Jewish church and school > and another was a poor Irish catholic farmer from Tyrone > James Mcgrath who had a run in with > the constabulary in 1827 and was sentenced to life in the colony > Not 1 of these were from *villainous families * all 3 were what we > in todays colloquialisms were *set up*..what ever the colony needed > was supplied one way or the other > I am sure when I go further I will find more > It would be interesting to have the time to just collect a convict and > bring him to modern time rather than just spending time on our own lines > Christene > > ------------------------------- > 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 >