What a great idea Lesley. If only there was a Genie, as in Genieologist, who could grant the wishes we all crave. To be able to answer the questions we all have agonised over. I'm all for the concept of invisibility. To be able to observe and listen, already knowing some of the future, but needing to fill in those gaps that have been a frustration to the portrait being complete. In my invisibility cloak I would be on the dock at Sydney Cove in December 1821. I would watch the convict ship "John Bull" lower its sails after a four month journey transporting eighty mostly Irish female convicts. I would see Major Goulburn the Colonial Secretary come aboard and probably shake hands with the Master William Corlett and the Surgeon William Elyard and listen to his possible enquiries as to the wellbeing of Mrs. Elyard and her children, but my attention would be drawn to the convicts now assembled on deck for inspection by the Colonial Secretary Major Goulburn. Which one was Mary Moran? I had a description but it seemed to fit at least half the women assembled. I would listen to what was said as some of the convicts were transferred to schooners to transport them to the Factory at Parramatta. Mary Moran was mentioned... So that was what she looked like. I wonder if she knew she was pregnant? I did and I knew who the father was. It was William Moore the ship's steward. I watch closely as the women are transferred to the vessels that will take them to Parramatta. Is there any sign of affection between Mary and the Steward, a smile, a touch of hands? The reason I would like to be on the dock at Sydney on a hot summer day in 1821 is because the child Mary Moran was carrying was most probably my gg grandfather. Terry