Hi Robyn Perhaps your Mary Farrell was an Irish Potato Famin Orphan. They did stay at Hyde Park Barracks when they arrived. There is a memorial there. Listed in book "Bare Foot and Pregnant" Mary Farrell age 17 from Scarriff Clare parents Edward & Eliza arrived on the 'Thomas Arbuthnot' 3/2/1850 Might be worth a look. See website for Irish Orphans http://www.irishfaminememorial.org/ for ships & names. They often lied about their age to get out of Ireland. regards Derek 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" > > Hoping someone can help with a couple of queries.This is my first posting > on this website. > > Re : Convict William Underwood who arrived on the "Westmoreland" in 1835. > William was aged 31 and sentenced to 14 years for counterfeiting. He was > from Bristol and sentenced in the Bristol Quarter Sessions. He was the > brother to my Great Great Grandmother Louisa Underwood who was sent on the > Emma Eugenia (3) to VDL arriving in 1844. She was sentenced to 7 years , > also for counterfeiting. Two of her children came out with her.Does anyone > out there have connections to William Underwood? > > On Monday my Husband and I attended Descendants Day which was held on our > Foundation Day at the Fremantle Prison. It is for those of us who have > Convict ,Enrolled Pensioner Guard and Warder ancestery.I have 3 convict > ancestors sent to VDL and WA and my husband has 5 WA convicts only.( I am > still trying to track my GG Grandmother in Braidwood , NSW and I am > wondering if she was a convict also, Mary Farrell.was born 1825 > Kildare,Ireland and died 1908 in Braidwood) .We also saw the"Women > Transported"- Life in the Australia's Convict Female Factories. A > fantastic exhibition ,spent ages reading and viewing it all. Well > supported with many, many people going through. Having both male and > female convicts I find this history so very interesting. > > As an aside I have been wondering for some time if anyone tell me if > convict women were ever held at the Hyde Park Barracks prior to being sent > as secondary offenders to Peel Stations at Moreton Bay or Eagle Farm? I > couldn't find any reference to it at the exhibition unless of course I > missed it ! > > The Murrays > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 15:06:48 +1000 > From: Lesley Uebel <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [PJ] Message from The Murrays re William Underwood/Hyde > Park Barracks > To: Robyn Murray <[email protected]>, > [email protected] > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > Hi Robyn > > Welcome to the PJ List > > Female convicts were not sent to Hyde Park Barracks - only men. The > females were sent to the Female Factory > > Regards > > Lesley Uebel > > http://www.claimaconvict.net/index.html > CLAIM A CONVICT > > > email: [email protected] > > On 8/06/2011 12:54 PM, Robyn Murray wrote: >> Hoping someone can help with a couple of queries.This is my first posting >> on this website. >> >> Re : Convict William Underwood who arrived on the "Westmoreland" in 1835. >> William was aged 31 and sentenced to 14 years for counterfeiting. He was >> from Bristol and sentenced in the Bristol Quarter Sessions. He was the >> brother to my Great Great Grandmother Louisa Underwood who was sent on >> the Emma Eugenia (3) to VDL arriving in 1844. She was sentenced to 7 >> years , also for counterfeiting. Two of her children came out with >> her.Does anyone out there have connections to William Underwood? >> >> On Monday my Husband and I attended Descendants Day which was held on >> our Foundation Day at the Fremantle Prison. It is for those of us who >> have Convict ,Enrolled Pensioner Guard and Warder ancestery.I have 3 >> convict ancestors sent to VDL and WA and my husband has 5 WA convicts >> only.( I am still trying to track my GG Grandmother in Braidwood , NSW >> and I am wondering if she was a convict also, Mary Farrell.was born 1825 >> Kildare,Ireland and died 1908 in Braidwood) .We also saw the"Women >> Transported"- Life in the Australia's Convict Female Factories. A >> fantastic exhibition ,spent ages reading and viewing it all. Well >> supported with many, many people going through. Having both male and >> female convicts I find this history so very interesting. >> >> As an aside I have been wondering for some time if anyone tell me if >> convict women were ever held at the Hyde Park Barracks prior to being >> sent as secondary offenders to Peel Stations at Moreton Bay or Eagle >> Farm? I couldn't find any reference to it at the exhibition unless of >> course I missed it ! >> >> The Murrays >>