Brent, Did your George have a son called Charles Sylvester around 1830 in Sydney?? Cheers. Annie. from a now very wet but cycloneless Cairns, Aus. > Brent Richards <brent.richards77@gmail.com> wrote: > > G'day > > I would visit George Smith (Minstrel, 1825). Dusty, as we call him, > stands > out for me because he is the only one among all of my convict ancestors > from > which an oral family history has survived to the present day. This is > something my family treasures dearly. Thanks go to my loquacious > maternal > line. > > If Dusty is half the irreverent larrikin and loving man that descendants > have come to understand then it would be an enjoyable and moving > encounter. > I should like to sit down and have a beer with him on his verandah and > read > him the news (he couldn't R/W but he liked his newspapers, and they > liked > him). But before we become too groggy there would be many tantalising > mysteries I would like him to clarify. > > Luckily we have the next best thing to time travel; bringing the past to > the > present: the PJ list. > > Cheers > Brent > > ------------------------------- > 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 Cheers. Anne from Cairns, Aus.