Hi Rosalee, This saga is the subject of an excellent narrative history by Carol Baxter called "Breaking the Bank" published earlier this year by Allen & Unwin. One of my convict ancestors, George DUDLEY who had not long completed his original sentence was found guilty of receiving some of the Promissory notes and headed off to Norfolk Island for 14 years. It is a good read. Cheers Peter Melbourne > > Message: 7 > Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2008 18:50:07 +1100 > From: "Rosalee" <rosaleeshaw@ozemail.com.au> > Subject: [PJ] First Australian Bank Robbery > To: <aus-pt-jackson-convicts@rootsweb.com> > Message-ID: <6F574431736B46E19C7BDD6A43BCDB96@owner506bf5eac> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Oh, it pays to have a quiet Boxing Day!! > > I have been "googling" and "surfing" today, and tried my luck on a long > time brick wall. > > Anne Toole, (Broxbournbury) was the daughter of a convict (Bernard Toole) > (Somersetshire) who married John Wilford, alias Creighton (Bencoolen) when > she was 14. > > Both John and her father drowned in 1829, when she was about 16 or > 17...............and then I lost her. > > Now I know !! > > It seems that John was involved in the first australian bank robbery, on > 14th september 1828 (and it seems they got quite a haul- some ?14,000 in > promissory notes and coins) but he drowned before police could find an > informant to give evidence. The circumstances of the drowning seem now > somewhat suspicious. > > Anne, I now find, re-married with some speed - to James Dingle, a > co-conspirator, very soon after her husband's death - and here was I > thinking about this poor traumatised girl..... in the depths of > depression, perhaps unable to move on with her life or see a > future.....<huh> > > Anne's mother married just 5 months later as well, to the local > constable.......I always wondered why, and now I am intrigued! > > If anyone knows more about this family, or about the story, please contact > me. I am still looking for a death and offspring. > > Rosalee > > ------------------------------ > > To contact the AUS-PT-JACKSON-CONVICTS list administrator, send an email > to > AUS-PT-JACKSON-CONVICTS-admin@rootsweb.com. > > To post a message to the AUS-PT-JACKSON-CONVICTS mailing list, send an > email to AUS-PT-JACKSON-CONVICTS@rootsweb.com. > > __________________________________________________________ > 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 > email with no additional text. > > > End of AUS-PT-JACKSON-CONVICTS Digest, Vol 3, Issue 403 > *******************************************************