Hi again, At 01:20 PM 26/01/2009, you wrote: The Sydney Gazette of 20 February 1841 gives her name as Margaret McKenny, REE - theft again :) The bottom of that same column in the Sydney gazette is a Margaret Kenny who rec'd the exact same sentence - so she could be either of them. :/ >She did spend time in the Female Factory so those records may hold something. >You have to be careful using the Female Factory Index as the names have not >been matched against the Indents...... and some women, although >still convicts, >are listed under their husbands surname. Sydney female factory? Where would I find these records please, the only ones I've come across stop around 1828. >It is interesting that once free and then convicted in 1841 her >maiden name was >used. As a free person one would think that, if married, her husbands surname >would be used. And in the marriages too - each remarriage is done under the maiden name not the widowed name. (Mind you I had another search last night and I can't seem to kill off any of her husbands, she must have been adeot at hiding the bodies *G*) cheers Minuet

Hi Remember that when convicts applied for permission to marry they had to apply using the name on the Indent...... otherwise it was rejected.... although I guess a few did get through The difference between the two Margarets noted in the Sydney Gazette is that one was said to be free and the other not. I don't know who the other person was.... but I have found that the newspapers often got the names wrong :)) they still do Female Factory Index--Parramatta 1826--1848 on microfiche by Joan Reese. regards Lesley Uebel mailto:ckennedy@bigpond.net.au CLAIM A CONVICT http://users.bigpond.net.au/convicts/index.html -----Original Message----- From: aus-pt-jackson-convicts-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:aus-pt-jackson-convicts-bounces@rootsweb.com]On Behalf Of Minuet Sent: Monday, January 26, 2009 2:14 PM To: aus-pt-jackson-convicts@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [PJ] KENNY, BRIGGS & help pls Hi again, At 01:20 PM 26/01/2009, you wrote: The Sydney Gazette of 20 February 1841 gives her name as Margaret McKenny, REE - theft again :) The bottom of that same column in the Sydney gazette is a Margaret Kenny who rec'd the exact same sentence - so she could be either of them. :/ >She did spend time in the Female Factory so those records may hold something. >You have to be careful using the Female Factory Index as the names have not >been matched against the Indents...... and some women, although >still convicts, >are listed under their husbands surname. Sydney female factory? Where would I find these records please, the only ones I've come across stop around 1828. >It is interesting that once free and then convicted in 1841 her >maiden name was >used. As a free person one would think that, if married, her husbands surname >would be used. And in the marriages too - each remarriage is done under the maiden name not the widowed name. (Mind you I had another search last night and I can't seem to kill off any of her husbands, she must have been adeot at hiding the bodies *G*) cheers Minuet ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to AUS-PT-JACKSON-CONVICTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message