Hi John and Lyn Would you believe that as part of the 1988 celebrations a series of books were published under the name Australians: A historical library. In deciding what to cover in this series, a decision was made to compile books showing what it was like to live in Australia every 50 years, so one of the years is 1838. It is simply titled Australians 1838. Hope you find it useful. cheers Grahame On 01/06/2011, at 12:18 PM, John Read wrote: > Hi! > > After an absence of several years we am back researching my convict - > William Jarvis. > > We seem to have most of the trail complete now from his birth through > his activities before, during and after being a convict and on to his > death in Victoria but we am looking for some details of what Sydney/Port > Jackson would have been like when he arrived in 1838. > > The things we am looking for are - were the streets paved? Were there > ferries/boats plying along the harbour? Where the streets lit at > night? Etc. > > Can anyone point in the direction where we can find this sort of > information? > > It maybe a bit of topic but similar info for Wollongong and the > Illawarra generally. > > Regards, John and Lyn Read Kurwongbah > > ---------------------- > To send a message to the Port Jackson Convicts List, send an email to > [email protected] > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hi John I have, over the years, typed up many pieces from various early times. You may also like to check the newpapers (Trove) as they are an excellent source of information. This one is from the 1830's that you may find of interest adn the source is "Who's Master? Who's Man? Michael Cannon WE HAVE SEEN that Sydney in the 1830’s had developed into a thriving trading post looking outwards to the sea. Its frontier was the blue water, across which most of the town's sustenance and new vigour still came, as it had come for nearly half a century. But this was not enough for the expansionist spirit of the age. To convert the seaport town into a capital city with limitless possibilities for growth, a developing land frontier and productive hinterland were needed. It was time to look to the earth and the riches thereof. There was already a good deal of productive work going on in the bush around Sydney Harbour. Alexander Harris boarded one of the 'snug little 2½ or 3 ton boats' which Lane Cove settlers used to bring timber downstream to sell to the merchants and householders of Sydney. These settlers, he found, were mostly ex-convicts who made a living by felling and squaring trees for girders, splitting slate-like shingles for roofing material, cutting posts and rails for fencing, and supplying firewood for domestic purposes and the various steam engines already in operation on water and land. The western road out of Sydney, painfully constructed and macadamised by the endless labour of the convicts, had become the main inland artery. Charles Darwin hired horses and rode out along George Street, past Brickfield Hill and Parramatta, and along the 120 mile route to Bathurst. In the country he found that apart from the iron gangs there was a close resemblance to the English countryside, although 'the alehouses here were more numerous.' The land was enclosed with timber railings, for the farmers had not succeeded in growing hedges. Many substantial homes and good cottages were scattered about, and considerable areas of land were under cultivation. Around Sydney the County of Cumberland was thoroughly settled, particularly in choice spots like Parramatta, Penrith, Windsor and Camden. Here the inheritors of the lavish government land grants of earlier days watched their flocks multiply effortlessly and their fortunes increase magically. They had leisure to engage in politics and cultural pursuits, and to dream fantasies of establishing a hereditary system in which birth and not ability would be the key to colonial power. It was not here that the ordinary free emigrant could hope to make his mark and plant his family. Good land would cost him a small fortune, the price of stock was too high, and he had missed most of the era of assigned convict labour. Further north, however, along the Nepean and Hawkesbury rivers, the land was cheaper and the small man stood a better chance, particularly if he had a large family to use as farm labour. Near Richmond, wrote Alexander Harris, he felt at once that he was 'in the land of the husbandman.' Whichever way he looked he could see fields of tall green Indian corn, orchards loaded with splendid peaches, ground being ploughed, paddocks of wheat ripening, herds of pigs grazing, and every few fields apart 'some more or less simple edifice' which marked the homestead. A sylvan scene indeed, after the horrors of hulk and gaol. But the overwhelming urge of more adventurous men was for great tracts of free land, unencumbered by previous owner or commitment. Many went further out and simply 'squatted' in the bush, bought or stole a few cattle and sheep from nearby properties, and began the process of multiplying their flocks with the minimum of expense. The well-established graziers, who had raised themselves on the scarified backs of their convict slaves, were incensed by the morality of the new type of land-takers. Captain Phillip Parker King, former naval officer who had become commissioner of the Australian Agricultural Company, told a Legislative Council committee on police and gaol establishments in 1835 that he could not express his feelings too strongly on the subject of squatters. 'The mischief they do is almost incalculable', he exploded. 'They harbour the settler's runaway convicts: they steal his cattle and sheep: they sell spirits on the sly: they entice shepherds from the care of their sheep: they shelter and feed bushrangers'. The committee's final report recommended strong action against squatters and cattle thieves to prevent them from moving about the countryside and taking 'uncontrolled possession of remote and un- frequented tracts of grazing ground.' Acting under instructions from London, earlier governors had done their best to contain the outward pressure from Sydney. In 1829 Governor Darling proclaimed the so-called 'Nineteen Counties’, an area bounded on the west by a line roughly following the Bell river beyond Bathurst, on the south by a line following the Murrumbidgee and Moruya rivers, and on the north by the Manning river beyond Newcastle. Darling forbade any new settlement beyond these bounds, hoping to contain the restless colony within the limited area controllable by his military forces. By this period, groups of land grants were scattered all over the western, southern and northern limits of the official settlement area, providing a nucleus of civilisation in the wilderness, and making it almost irresistible for squatters to fill in the gaps, then push on beyond the boundaries. To the west, Bathurst had grown from a tiny military depot established by Macquarie in 1815 to a sizeable township of about 2,000 people, with a hospital, two churches, and a bank. It was surrounded by the large sheep stations of the pioneer 'great Stock-holders', many of them now in the second generation and already degenerating into absentee landlords who tended to leave the management of their runs to currency lads and their convict assistants. This area remained a wealthy but fairly static community until disrupted by the gold rushes. To the south, in Argyle County, Goulburn was a well-established centre for small cattle stations and lately-arrived graziers pasturing their flocks. To the north, the major settlements along the Hunter River, the town of Maitland and the former penal settlement of Newcastle were thriving. Since the southern and western areas of the Nineteen Counties were practically filled up by 1836, many free settlers were moving north to this area, engaging in agriculture as well as sheep-watching. When James Backhouse visited Maitland during that year, he found it to consist of a considerable number of houses, mainly solid brick. A large proportion of the inhabitants were' drunken with rum and prosperity'. Still the outward pressure grew. By 1836 the boundary of the Nineteen Counties had been scattered in all directions. To the north the New England plains were filling up, and men were driving their sheep and cattle over the future Queensland border towards the legendary Darling Downs, discovered by the botanist-explorer Allan Cunningham in 1827. To the south-west, men penetrated with their herds beyond the legal area of settlement to where Young, Gundagai and Wagga now stand. To the south, great flocks of sheep and herds of cattle were moving towards Port Phillip, following the deep tracks blazed by Major Mitchell's drays in 1836 when he explored the route through what he t described as' Australia Felix'. Once again Bourke demonstrated his larger vision in comparison with the views of earlier governors and established landowners. In 1836 he decided to throw open the colony's 'waste lands' to legitimate squatting settlement, but to clamp down more harshly on unlicensed squatters. For a payment of £10 a year and ½d. per animal, any reputable person could now take out a squatting licence and run his stock on Crown lands as he pleased, up to a maximum occupation of twenty square miles. http://www.claimaconvict.net/index.html CLAIM A CONVICT email: [email protected] On 1/06/2011 12:18 PM, John Read wrote: > Hi! > > After an absence of several years we am back researching my convict - > William Jarvis. > > We seem to have most of the trail complete now from his birth through > his activities before, during and after being a convict and on to his > death in Victoria but we am looking for some details of what Sydney/Port > Jackson would have been like when he arrived in 1838. > > The things we am looking for are - were the streets paved? Were there > ferries/boats plying along the harbour? Where the streets lit at > night? Etc. > > Can anyone point in the direction where we can find this sort of > information? > > It maybe a bit of topic but similar info for Wollongong and the > Illawarra generally. > > Regards, John and Lyn Read Kurwongbah > >

Betty, Thanks. John and Lyn On 1/06/2011 3:14 PM, Betty Candy wrote: > Try the "Dictionary of Sydney" Website. > Regards > Betty Candy

Try the "Dictionary of Sydney" Website. Regards Betty Candy -------------------------------------------------- From: "John Read" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2011 12:18 PM To: <[email protected]> Subject: [PJ] Description of Sydney > Hi! > > After an absence of several years we am back researching my convict - > William Jarvis. > > We seem to have most of the trail complete now from his birth through > his activities before, during and after being a convict and on to his > death in Victoria but we am looking for some details of what Sydney/Port > Jackson would have been like when he arrived in 1838. > > The things we am looking for are - were the streets paved? Were there > ferries/boats plying along the harbour? Where the streets lit at > night? Etc. > > Can anyone point in the direction where we can find this sort of > information? > > It maybe a bit of topic but similar info for Wollongong and the > Illawarra generally. > > Regards, John and Lyn Read Kurwongbah > > ---------------------- > To send a message to the Port Jackson Convicts List, send an email to > [email protected] > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hi! After an absence of several years we am back researching my convict - William Jarvis. We seem to have most of the trail complete now from his birth through his activities before, during and after being a convict and on to his death in Victoria but we am looking for some details of what Sydney/Port Jackson would have been like when he arrived in 1838. The things we am looking for are - were the streets paved? Were there ferries/boats plying along the harbour? Where the streets lit at night? Etc. Can anyone point in the direction where we can find this sort of information? It maybe a bit of topic but similar info for Wollongong and the Illawarra generally. Regards, John and Lyn Read Kurwongbah

Hello Ronda Another possibility is Sydney Goal. There are entrance books for this Gaol, so it would be possible to check whether particular convicts were taken there after their ship arrived. Reel 2514 contains entrance books for the period 1.1.1819 to 30.4.1841. Regards Ken

Hi everyone I was just wondering if anyone knows what happened to convict Michael Hughes born ca 1769, convicted Lancaster, who arrived on the "Fortune" 1806. He is listed in the 1826 NSW Census with a Conditional Pardon, 56 years, occupation farmer, at Mittagong/Sutton Forest. There is also an entry for the same person listed at Camden [57 years, Catholic, occupation tenant]. My interest is seeing if he had any children born at Iron Stone Bridge [built 1833 near Mittagong]. Kind regards Helen

Is that reel part of the AJCP? Thanks Rob Coughlan -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ken Thompson Sent: Tuesday, 31 May 2011 6:05 PM To: [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: [PJ] Convict Dispersal Hello Ronda Another possibility is Sydney Goal. There are entrance books for this Gaol, so it would be possible to check whether particular convicts were taken there after their ship arrived. Reel 2514 contains entrance books for the period 1.1.1819 to 30.4.1841. Regards Ken ---------------------- To send a message to the Port Jackson Convicts List, send an email to [email protected] ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Thanks ever so much Lesley for pointing me in the right direction. Cheers Rhonda

Hi I am not sure if you know that Julia Walsh/Walch arrived free on the "William Sharples" in January 1842 . This ship left from Liverpool on 24 October 1841 with 368 immigrants Regards Lesley Uebel http://www.claimaconvict.net/index.html CLAIM A CONVICT email: [email protected] On 31/05/2011 1:33 PM, Kilpike wrote: > I am interested in the fate of William Jerroms/Jerrom/Jerome (plus > other variations in spelling) who was convicted of “house breaking” in > 1831 and later the same year transported per “Asia” to Sydney. Ten > years after arriving in 1832 William Jerroms applied to marry firstly > Julia Walch 16/8/1842& secondly Julia Walsh 30/8/1842 and was > rejected on both occasions because he was already “married with a > child”. Then after 5 years, circa 1847, William Jerroms became the > father of a son William to Julia Walsh, her maiden name suggesting the > couple were not married. Then on 8/6/1850 Julia Walsh gave birth to > John who died a week later. Possibly suffering depression from the > death of her son John, Julia Walsh jumped into Sydney Harbour holdfing > 3 year old William on 5/8/1850. The husband& father William Jerroms > was described as a “waterman” at the inquest and the burials were > conducted by a Roman Catholic priest. Within a few months William > Jerom married Martha Webbey on 4/11/1850 and the couple had a son > Henry on 23/11/1851 who was baptised at St Andrews Presbyterian on > 25/11/1851, the father being a “waterman” of Bathurst St. After that > birth I have been unable to trace anything about the later life of > William Jerroms, such as his death. > > A summary of events concerning William Jerroms (I have assumed the > William Jerroms listed below are the one& same person): > > Birth: William Jerroms 1805 (calculated from conviction record) > Conviction: William Jerroms, 26 yrs, 29 March 1831 house breaking, > Warwick Lent Assize > Hulk: William Jerroms 10 May 1831 “Captivity” at Portsmouth > Transported: William Jerroms 29 September 1831 per “Asia” > Arrived: William Jerroms 13 February 1832 per “Asia” at Sydney > Assigned: William Jerroms from Feb/March 1832 to Robert McIntosh > Ticket of Leave: William Jerroms 23 December 1841 at Pittwater per “Asia” > Application to Marry: William Jerroms, 32 yrs, 16 August 1842 to Julia > A. Walch [sic], 22 yrs, rejected, he was already married with a child > Application to Marry: William Jerroms, 37 yrs, 30 August 1842 to Julia > Walsh, 27 yrs, rejected, he was already married with a child > Birth: John Jerome 8 June 1850 son of William Jerome& Julia Walsh, > Bathurst St Sydney > Baptism: John Jerome 13 June 1850 son of William Jerome& Julia Walsh, > Bathurst St Sydney, St James Roman Catholic > Burial: John Jerome 17 June 1850 > Drowned: William Jeromes 3 yrs 5 August 1850, > Drowned: Julia Jeromes 37 yrs 5 August 1850 > Inquest: into deaths of Julia& William Jerome 7 August 1850, William > Jeromes husband& father described as “waterman”. > Burials: Julia& William Jerome 7 August 1850, abode Bathurst St > Sydney, Roman Catholic > Marriage: William Jerom& Martha Webbey 4 November 1850 St Andrews Sydney > Electoral Roll: William Jerroms 1851 Bathurst St Sydney > Birth: Henry Jerome 23 November 1851 son of William& Margaret Jerome > Baptism: Henry Jerome 25 November 1851 son of William, waterman,& > Margaret Jerome, abode Bathurst St Sydney, St Andrews Sydney > > > Several women named Julia Walsh, both free& convict, arrived in > Sydney during this period. Both Roman Catholic& Presbyterian faiths > were involved in baptisms associated with William Jerroms so that may > have been due to the allegiances of the mothers of his children. A > "waterman" at this time on Sydney Harbour provided a "taxi" service > between shore and vessels at anchor. I have not found the wife and > child that prevented William Jerroms marrying twice in 1842. > > I welcome comments& suggestions about William Jerroms. > >

I am interested in the fate of William Jerroms/Jerrom/Jerome (plus other variations in spelling) who was convicted of “house breaking” in 1831 and later the same year transported per “Asia” to Sydney. Ten years after arriving in 1832 William Jerroms applied to marry firstly Julia Walch 16/8/1842 & secondly Julia Walsh 30/8/1842 and was rejected on both occasions because he was already “married with a child”. Then after 5 years, circa 1847, William Jerroms became the father of a son William to Julia Walsh, her maiden name suggesting the couple were not married. Then on 8/6/1850 Julia Walsh gave birth to John who died a week later. Possibly suffering depression from the death of her son John, Julia Walsh jumped into Sydney Harbour holdfing 3 year old William on 5/8/1850. The husband & father William Jerroms was described as a “waterman” at the inquest and the burials were conducted by a Roman Catholic priest. Within a few months William Jerom married Martha Webbey on 4/11/1850 and the couple had a son Henry on 23/11/1851 who was baptised at St Andrews Presbyterian on 25/11/1851, the father being a “waterman” of Bathurst St. After that birth I have been unable to trace anything about the later life of William Jerroms, such as his death. A summary of events concerning William Jerroms (I have assumed the William Jerroms listed below are the one & same person): Birth: William Jerroms 1805 (calculated from conviction record) Conviction: William Jerroms, 26 yrs, 29 March 1831 house breaking, Warwick Lent Assize Hulk: William Jerroms 10 May 1831 “Captivity” at Portsmouth Transported: William Jerroms 29 September 1831 per “Asia” Arrived: William Jerroms 13 February 1832 per “Asia” at Sydney Assigned: William Jerroms from Feb/March 1832 to Robert McIntosh Ticket of Leave: William Jerroms 23 December 1841 at Pittwater per “Asia” Application to Marry: William Jerroms, 32 yrs, 16 August 1842 to Julia A. Walch [sic], 22 yrs, rejected, he was already married with a child Application to Marry: William Jerroms, 37 yrs, 30 August 1842 to Julia Walsh, 27 yrs, rejected, he was already married with a child Birth: John Jerome 8 June 1850 son of William Jerome & Julia Walsh, Bathurst St Sydney Baptism: John Jerome 13 June 1850 son of William Jerome & Julia Walsh, Bathurst St Sydney, St James Roman Catholic Burial: John Jerome 17 June 1850 Drowned: William Jeromes 3 yrs 5 August 1850, Drowned: Julia Jeromes 37 yrs 5 August 1850 Inquest: into deaths of Julia & William Jerome 7 August 1850, William Jeromes husband & father described as “waterman”. Burials: Julia & William Jerome 7 August 1850, abode Bathurst St Sydney, Roman Catholic Marriage: William Jerom & Martha Webbey 4 November 1850 St Andrews Sydney Electoral Roll: William Jerroms 1851 Bathurst St Sydney Birth: Henry Jerome 23 November 1851 son of William & Margaret Jerome Baptism: Henry Jerome 25 November 1851 son of William, waterman, & Margaret Jerome, abode Bathurst St Sydney, St Andrews Sydney Several women named Julia Walsh, both free & convict, arrived in Sydney during this period. Both Roman Catholic & Presbyterian faiths were involved in baptisms associated with William Jerroms so that may have been due to the allegiances of the mothers of his children. A "waterman" at this time on Sydney Harbour provided a "taxi" service between shore and vessels at anchor. I have not found the wife and child that prevented William Jerroms marrying twice in 1842. I welcome comments & suggestions about William Jerroms.

How about Hyde Park Barracks, Rhonda. This was the principle place that male convicts were lodged on arrival in Sydney awaiting assignment. Regards Lesley Uebel http://www.claimaconvict.net/index.html CLAIM A CONVICT email: [email protected] On 31/05/2011 6:28 AM, RhondaB wrote: > Hello Listers > My question is when the convicts were brought on shore in 1835 from a convict transport, where they taken to Carters Barracks to be dispersed from there or where were they taken while waiting to be assigned.. Can anyone help please with my question > Cheers Rhonda >

Hello Listers My question is when the convicts were brought on shore in 1835 from a convict transport, where they taken to Carters Barracks to be dispersed from there or where were they taken while waiting to be assigned.. Can anyone help please with my question Cheers Rhonda

Hi Lesley Thank you for the answers, regarding the source of information used for CF and the census. Mary Bevitt, I have the image of the 1814 Middlesex criminal register sheet with the age 52 HO10/21 for the 1828 census with age 56 Both seem clearly written. I also have a copy of the 1817 record with age 56. I assume like the CF this was taken from the earlier record created when she was tried in 1814. Checking parish christenings there is one entry between 1759-1774 and that is for 1772 which supports the age given in the 1828 census. Karen

Hi Karen, Your question wasn't that clear. Do you mean Mary Bevatt who arrived on the Lord Melvile in 1817? I do note that she was 56 when she arrived in 1817 and 56 at the time of the 1828 NSW Census. Have you check the original Census? as a 5 can sometimes look like a 6 The Certificate of Freedom would have been made up in the office and details taken from those records. As far as the 1828 NSW Census is concerned - the information was provided by a person in the particular dwelling (or other place). If she did change her age at the time of her conviction - I do not know the reason. Regards Lesley Uebel http://www.claimaconvict.net/index.html CLAIM A CONVICT email: [email protected] On 30/05/2011 2:53 PM, Karen Hodges wrote: > Hi Lesley > > I know age didn't stop older women being transported. I am trying to > find a reason for a convict being recorded as being older. > 1814 age of 52 is clearly written, her birthday was later in the year > equalling 1761, this year is recorded on her Certificate of Freedom in > 1828. Her age in the 1828 census is 56 matches her birth/christening > year 1772. > > Do you know please if the year of birth was taken from previous > records for the Certificate of Freedom or supplied by the convict ? > In the 1828 census were the details provided by the person[FS] to the collector? > > Karen >

Thanks Grahame. Karen On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 4:45 PM, Grahame Thom <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Karten > > At trials, I sometimes think that the accused fiddled a bit with the facts so as to perhaps gain some sympathy with the judge or whoever was in the chair.  Especially age as that could be difficult to prove and who cared anyway. > > cheers > > Grahame > > On 30/05/2011, at 2:53 PM, Karen Hodges wrote: > >> Hi Lesley >> >> I know age didn't stop older women being transported. I am trying to >> find a reason for a convict being recorded as being older. >> 1814 age of 52 is clearly written, her birthday was later in the year >> equalling 1761, this year is recorded on her Certificate of Freedom in >> 1828. Her age in the 1828 census is 56 matches her birth/christening >> year 1772. >> >> Do you know please if the year of birth was taken from previous >> records for the Certificate of Freedom or supplied by the convict ? >> In the 1828 census were the details provided by the person[FS] to the collector? >> >> Karen >> >> could a woman awaiting trial consider it advantageous to lie about her >> age and make herself older in hopes that she would be consider not >> worth the cost of transporting to Australia? >> >> ---------------------- >> To send a message to the Port Jackson Convicts List, send an email to >> [email protected] >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > ---------------------- > To send a message to the Port Jackson Convicts List, send an email to > [email protected] > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Hi Karten At trials, I sometimes think that the accused fiddled a bit with the facts so as to perhaps gain some sympathy with the judge or whoever was in the chair. Especially age as that could be difficult to prove and who cared anyway. cheers Grahame On 30/05/2011, at 2:53 PM, Karen Hodges wrote: > Hi Lesley > > I know age didn't stop older women being transported. I am trying to > find a reason for a convict being recorded as being older. > 1814 age of 52 is clearly written, her birthday was later in the year > equalling 1761, this year is recorded on her Certificate of Freedom in > 1828. Her age in the 1828 census is 56 matches her birth/christening > year 1772. > > Do you know please if the year of birth was taken from previous > records for the Certificate of Freedom or supplied by the convict ? > In the 1828 census were the details provided by the person[FS] to the collector? > > Karen > > could a woman awaiting trial consider it advantageous to lie about her > age and make herself older in hopes that she would be consider not > worth the cost of transporting to Australia? > > ---------------------- > To send a message to the Port Jackson Convicts List, send an email to > [email protected] > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to AUS-PT-JACKSON-CONVICT[email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Lesley, My understand was that some were "marked Africa" during the first and second fleets as there had been an attempt or attempts to settle some convicts in West Africa. These had failed due to disease and climate etc. Jason Coates

Hi Lesley I know age didn't stop older women being transported. I am trying to find a reason for a convict being recorded as being older. 1814 age of 52 is clearly written, her birthday was later in the year equalling 1761, this year is recorded on her Certificate of Freedom in 1828. Her age in the 1828 census is 56 matches her birth/christening year 1772. Do you know please if the year of birth was taken from previous records for the Certificate of Freedom or supplied by the convict ? In the 1828 census were the details provided by the person[FS] to the collector? Karen could a woman awaiting trial consider it advantageous to lie about her age and make herself older in hopes that she would be consider not worth the cost of transporting to Australia?

Hello Derek, Have you tried our Family History here at Port. Our Church Of England may have records Kath I will ask our members for you and see what they hold -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Derek BURR Sent: Monday, 30 May 2011 8:21 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [PJ] Convict John Lawrence Hi I also are having trouble finding what happened to my convict JOHN LAWRENCE from his arrival on 8/1/1939 on the Barossa and his settlement at Moparrabah (Kempsey District) It was stated in his wife ROSANNA CARTWRIGHT's Obituary that he worked as a Stock Keeper at Lake Innes Port Macquarie but I have been unable to find out from the Port Macquarie's Historical society of any existing record. We know he Married in Port Macquarie in 1850, Ticket of Leave 9/8/1946, Cancelled 6/11/1850, reissured 16/4/1851. So what did he do between1839 and 1851 when he turned up in Kempsey. This is still my mystery. Derek ---------------------- To send a message to the Port Jackson Convicts List, send an email to [email protected] ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message