Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2011 10:54:13 +0800 From: "Robyn Murray" <[email protected]> Subject: [PJ] Message from The Murrays re William Underwood/Hyde Park Barracks To: <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Thank you very much Lesley for your answer to my Hyde Park Barracks query. I am trying to have a better understanding of convict life and establishments in NSW. Re my note re convict William Underwood. "Westmoreland "1835 . Sentenced to 14 years. I see William was sent to Goat Island. Why would he have been sent there?Can anyone help? William was my convict GG Grandmothers brother. Hoping to trace connections to William. Thank you to Derek for your reply re my Mary Farrell from Kildare.The Mary you have suggested can't be my Mary. Mary Farrell married my my GG Grandfather Simeon Jennings at Island Lake ( Highland Lake?) near Cooma NSW 19/2/1849.. The Mary Farrell you suggested came 1850 and that was a year after she married Simeon. My apologies for not stating this originally. Mary was born Kildare Ireland c 1825 and died aged 83 in Braidwood NSW on 18/7/1908. Mother unknown. Father ,( ?)Farrell a farmer. No other information. I always wondered if she was a convict, maybe not. Several Mary Farrells were sent to NSW and VDL.. Thank you also to Kevin. Your thoughts that Mary may have come on the "Hope" in 1842 as an assisted immigrant( her brother, Michael Farrell)), could be more promising. I will see how I can access the shipping records for the" Hope". Everyone has been most helpful. Robyn Murray