Hi list I would like to spend a few hours with my g/g/g/g/grandfather John Manning who arrived on the Royal Admiral in 1800. I know a fair bit about his life in Sydney but only his trial details in London. You are said to have been born in Whitechapel about 1768, and at your 1798 Old Bailey trial you said you had a wife and five small children. Was your name spelt Manning, or Mainwaring, or Mannering? Perhaps you dont know how it was spelt anyway. Did you really have five children or were you trying to influence the decision? What were their names and the name of your wife? Who were your parents? Grandparents? Did any of your children come to Sydney as has been suggested? Your deed is so open were you trying to get caught to get away from your family and terrible London? Where did you live in London? What work did you do - described as a labourer? Could you read and write? When your partner Margaret Beynon (Nile 1801) died in 1849 she was described as the wife of a gentleman. Well done. cheers Grahame