Hi All, I'm new to this list and researching my Chandler descendants. I have quite a lot of the 'skeleton' of their lives, but would like to 'flesh out' my knowledge of their life and times. (Hope I'm not asking too much!) In any case, Edward Chandler and Sarah Mepham Huggett arrived Sydney on the 'Strathfieldsaye' with two small children 27 July 1839. They were agricultural workers from Sussex and their first position seems to be with Sir John Jamieson at Regentville. Census 1841 has them living on the estate with a boarder and fellow shepherd and five children (three were theirs by this time). They had moved to Richmond by 1844 where the next two children were baptised. I would like to know (1) if anyone else is researching this family in particular? (2) if anyone else has families who lived and worked at the Regentville estate? and/or (3) if anyone can give me some insight into how their lives might have been on the estate in general? Would it have been the usual practice for Jamison and other large landholders to employ such workers before they left England, or was it something they had to negotiate on arrival? I'm trying to get an idea of what happened when they set foot in Port Jackson. Thanks in advance for any advice you can offer. Marlene Camden