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