Hi John - my ancestors - the Martin family CF on the Experiment in 1804 and settled in the Richmond area - A number of their grandchildren married members of the Price family and settled in the Penrith area. Ann john wrote: > Hello All, > > I'll email this to my wife (as email is effective in addition to speaking > to her, haha) to remind her to send the money off for the book as we > certainly do want to buy it and agree totally with Pat that it's a great > buy, a great resource for all who may be interested in Castlereagh and its > early history. > > Next year two hundred years ago the 568 ton ship "Experiment" which left > England on 4 December arrived in Sydney and carried my ancestor Ann Reffin > (Ralphin). > > Ann died at Castlereagh and I've booked the small church hall next year for > one day to hold a remembrance, to share information on Ann and her life and > times etc. > > Ann and her immediate descendants (i.e. children) and their spouses moved > entirely to the Nepean Valley it seems, mostly to Castlereagh and with > another sizeable lot around Greendale (Wilkinson family). Persons like > myself know of this only due to the painstaking work of Patricia Curry and > we have a great debt to her. And I reckon there's unknown thousands of > Ann's descendants, of many surnames, now spread across Australia who do not > know (perhaps do not care?) that they came from this convict woman. > > I'm interested to contact anybody with any interests on any of these > things, including the Experiment and other passengers on that transport > vessel on its trip that brought Ann Reffin. > > My wife and I did a small display (A cardboard box coated on both sides > with pictures) for 'Back to Castlereagh Day' held earlier in 2003; and > since then I'm made websites for Castlereagh History and Byrnes and Irish > History interests. However, from all that I've only been able to find > contacts for very few people interested in such things. > > So if anyone interested in matters related to Castlereagh, the ship details > or passengers of the Experiment (I also have a strong interest in another > one of them "Molly Morgan"), > celtic history and the many relocations of celtic peoples through history, > social studies, religions (esp. early Methodism, Salvation Army, Quakers, > Presbyterians, Catholics), the religious conflicts, other Irish/Scottish > history, the Scots Irish after they went to America (e.g. Davy Crockett, > Jim Bowie, Daniel Boone, Buffalo Bill Cody and other well known names were > all of the Scots Irish line) would like to contact me at > john.mail@ozemail.com.au I'd be delighted to meet you. > > It is hoped to have a CD ready in time to give out at the Ann Reffin > memorial day next year, containing information about Castlereagh, geneology > or family history, about the Leistershire Wolds in central England from > where Ann came, and so on. > > If anybody has digital information they could email to me or post to me on > CD-ROM (to PO Box 264, Summer Hill, NSW 2130) I would be very grateful, and > happy to compensate for any costs involved. Please only send things you > don't mind being in the "public domain"; no dark family secrets or anything > of sensitive nature, as once material is compiled onto a CD for further > distribution there's no saying where it might end up. > > I know there are active family history group/s focussed on futher down the > river where it is called the Hawkesbury. I'm uncertain with my ancestry if > it's possible to have any connecting links of common interests much with > them. But I was wondering if there is a possible connecting link via the > ship Experiment, i.e. if any of the 136 female prisoners who came on the > Experiment out of England in 1803 ended up on the Hawkesbury? > > Hmmm, there's a lot to learn about history (if one has the time) is there not? > > Kind Regards, > > John Byrnes > > >----- Original Message ----- > >From: "Pat Curry" <patcurry@bigpond.com> > >To: <AUS-NSW-PENRITH-L@rootsweb.com> > >Sent: Friday, October 10, 2003 10:09 PM > >Subject: [AUS-NSW-PENRITH] New resource book > > > > > >> Hi listers, > >> > >> > >> > >> Do you have an interest in the early Castlereagh area? Do you have > >> ancestors connected with the early Castlereagh area? > >> > >> > >> > >> Here's a great new resource - a book by the Nepean District Archaeology > >> Group - "In Search of the Early Nepean Pioneers - A Post Settlement > >> History Celebrating the Bicentenary of the 1803 Land Grants." > >> > >> > >> > >> This book provides an outline of the life and times of the first 23 > >> grantees of land along the Lower Nepean, and provides pointers for > >> further research. It has a Flowchart of Ownership for each portion of > >> land from 1803 until its eventual sale to the gravel mining companies > >> and/or the Penrith Lakes Development Corporation. It has 7 pages of > >> photographs of some of the old homes on the various sites, plus 2 full > >> page aerial photographs of the Bird's Eye Corner and Farrell's Lane > >> areas of Castlereagh in 1985 > >> > >> > >> > >> If you would like a copy, it costs $23 + $4 P & P from P.O Box 874, > >> Penrith, NSW, 2750. Or you will find a copy in the Local Studies > >> section of Penrith City Library. > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237