Hi Terry I called you Wayne by mistake Thanks also to Grahame and Rosslyn for lumber yard info. Jenny -----Original Message----- From: "Jenny T" [jennygirl@unwired.com.au] Date: 25/02/2009 10:40 PM To: aus-pt-jackson-convicts@rootsweb.com Subject: Fwd: Lumber Yards Hello Lesley and Wayne Thank you both for your replies and comments. I am still a little tentative in regards to how I should record Daniel Canvin's whereabouts. Some extra information has just been uncovered since I last wrote to the List. Daniel came from a family in Bristol and his father (also Daniel) was a blacksmith and a Bristol Burgess. Daniel arrived on the Elizabeth 3 Dec 1820 and I now have Daniel recorded, taken from theColonial Secretary's Papers, as Employed at New Lumber Yard on List of all persons victualled from H M Magazine 8 Sep 1821 reel 6016, 4/5781, p 95. Am I to take it that the NEW Lumber Yard is at Emu Plains? I also believe from another Lister that lumber would have been one of the main activities at the Emu Plains prison farm. I have done extensive research for the Lumber Yard that was in George Street and I uderstand what a hub of industry took place in lumber yards and with Daniel's background I would imagine that he would have worked as a blacksmith as that is what he did for the rest of his life. I too, have not been able to find a Ticket of Leave and I was interested to hear from you Lesley that it may have meant that he remained working for the government until his sentence expired in 1827. Is there anyway of finding out where this NEW Lumber Yard may have been 1821? Many thanks for Jenny I wrote: This is my brick wall; I am trying to find the Goverment Lumber Yard that my convict Daniel Canvin 1820> was employed. I had it all nicely pigeon holed and I was quoting in my research the Lumber Yard that was in Sydney Town corner of George and Bridge Street. I then obtained the General Muster List of NSW 1823, 1824, 1825, and here I find him under Goverment Employment at Emu Plains with a spelling of Cannivan. I now have to rethink my research. I was as wondering if anyone knew much about convicts at Emu Plains and if it had a Lumber Yard 1820- 1827. I am aware that Daniel ended up working for the Badgery Family all of his life however I am not sure when his Goverment Employemt ended and his work for the Badgery family began. I am also wondering why I can't find Daniel in 1822 Muster