Hi Don, If you need information about Convicts...Lesley Uebel who administers the Pt Jackson Convicts mailing list is a marvel... Of course they all came into Port Jackson before they were moved on up north to what is now Queensland. You could join the mailing list and pose your question, and I am positive that Lesley will be able to help you... http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/other/Prisons/AUS-PT-JACKSON-CONVICTS.html She has created several CDs which are listed on the website and has created the "Claim a Convict" site where you may run across someone researching the very convicts in whom you are interested.. Lesley's website is.. http://users.bigpond.net.au/convicts/ The Society of Australian Genealogists may also be able to help you.... Cheers Gay Research Names: http://www.perthdps.com/research/fie01.html ----- Original Message ----- From: "Don & Gail Weston" <mazfaz7@bigpond.com> To: "QLD Mailing List AUS" <AUS-QLD@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, February 14, 2009 12:44 PM Subject: [AUS-QLD] Convicts of QLD > Can anyone tell where I can find information about all the convicts that > were in QLD. > > QUEENSLAND separated from New South Wales. In 1824 the explorer Lieut. > John > Oxley took a party of 30 convicts and established a penal colony at > Redcliffe. Known as the Moreton Bay Settlement, this later moved to the > site > now called Brisbane. The name Brisbane Town was in use by 1825 and the > main > inhabitants in the area were the convicts of the Moreton Bay Penal Station > until it was closed in 1839. Around 2,280 convicts were sent to the > settlement between 1824-1839 and at the end of 1836 the convict population > numbered 337. > > The first free settlers moved to the district in 1838 and others followed > in > 1840. > > Don > > > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > AUS-QLD-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >