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

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 >