Terri, >Would anyone be able to tell me if Dapto in the 1830s was part of >the Windsor District. Almost certainly not. I don't have a map of the original Nineteen Counties to check, but without much doubt Liverpool (at least) would be between Windsor and the Illawarra. My g2-gf's ToL (from 1839) has 'Wollongong" written on the stub in the AO records, and he was then living at Hussar Farm at West Dapto - my bet is that Dapto in the 1830s would have come under Wollongong. >My ggg grandfather, John McDermott was transported to NSW in 1832 and >apparently he was sent to work for Peter Larkin on his property Galway Farm >in Dapto for five years. John McDermott is mentioned in the Larkin book, >Ireland to Illawarra as being a convict worker on the property. Do you have any details on the location of Galway Farm? I have a copy of "Nineteenth Century Dapto" published by the Illawarra HS in 1976 which lists the pre-1840 grants, and there is no mention of either Galway Farm or Peter Larkin. Have also scanned Cousins' "Garden of NSW" and McCaffery's "History of Illawarra" - again no references (why did these people write books without indexes!). The only reference I can find to either is in the brown IFHG PR, submitted by S Fackender of Dapto. John John Graham johngrah@ozemail.com.au GENEALOGY FROM GERRINGONG http://www.ozemail.com.au/~johngrah/