Thanks Robyn, I would appreciate anything at all .. as am interested in the general history of the times too. Contact me off list with anything. My ancestor would be very very very minor in all this (as we no doubt come from a very poor Irish family), and hence he is unlikely to be listed in any general texts on the matter. His wife actually petitioned the government for his releasement, as she termed it ... stating about how he was an unbelievably loyal chappie (implying there must be some awful mistak I guess ??). She suggested he should be returned to her and his family, but they still sent him to 'Botany Bay' or Sydney nonetheless - and so that was the end of that family of eight as a unit, since he remarried here (as I believe most exiles would have done). I understand that such petitions were fairly standard and that the person they were sent to probably never even bothered to read them. Strangely enough though, this wife's plea survives ... somewhere (as someone in the family got hold of a copy of it) but precisely where it is I do not know of either (the Dublin "Castle papers" would be a first guess). Best Regards, John Byrnes (Sydney) ~~~~~ At 09:39 AM 24/02/2009 +1100, Robyn wrote: >John >Irish research is very challenging, I happen to have at the moment Sir >Richard Musgrave's history of the 1798 rebellion. it's very loyalist & >anti papist & although not a genealogical text does list a lot of names >of participants on both sides. I could have a look for your ancestor's >name, no guarantee but a possibility, if of course you haven't already >consulted this tome >Robyn Hardie >On Tuesday, February 24, 2009, at 02:10 AM, John wrote: > >> >> >> >> Hello, >> >> >> >> >> My ancestor was supposedly trialled/exiled as a United Irishman in >> 1798 ,, >> but I've been unable to find any records at all on him in Ireland. >> >> Regards, >> >> >> >> >> John