Hello Trudy, Many thanks for this suggestion, which I will pass on and hopefully get a result from, although I do have some other lovely suggestions. Many thanks for your help. Frances > ---------- > Many of the BDM indexes for other Australian states (SA, WA, VIC > & QLD) are > available on CD at local libraries or genealogical societies. Perhaps you > cousin could check them at these places for a marriage for Charles PORT or > for the birth of children with him listed as father. > > It may also be worth checking shipping records from Tasmania and into VIC > and NSW. > > Regards > Trudy > > Dr Trudy Cowley > List Administrator > TAS Convicts Rootsweb List > tcowley@bigpond.net.au > AUS-TAS-CONVICTS-L@rootsweb.com > > ---------- > I wonder if anyone can please help me to further my research on Charles > PORT. He was sentenced to 10 years transportation 9 April 1841. Embarked > on the "Barossa" 16 Aug 1841 and arrived 13 Jan 1842. He was > granted a CP 4 > Dec 1849. > > >From what I have read in the archives on another Tas list, if he > was given > a > CP he would have to leave VDL, but could not return to England, neither > could he go to Victoria. If this is the case, I believe he may well have > returned when his 10 years was up. Nothing is shown on his records, as to > where he went. > > The reason I believe he returned, and so does a distant cousin > who has been > trying to help me, there is a Richard William PORT s/o of Charles > PORT b1869 > d1899, this is from a grandson. The name of the father of Charles, was > Richard William, and at that time it was not quite so common to have two > forenames, although I do know there were some who had two and even three. > But no further details were known about Charles. Nobody else > with the PORT > name that was contacted around the Richmond area (?) seems to be > interested, > so no further info available. > > My question is, how can I find out what happened to Charles, once > he had the > CP, and what about a marriage? I have checked the NSW marriages, > being that > is on-line, but how do I check any others. My cousin hasn't found any on > the Tas CD, but from what the possible gt. grandson said, it would appear > that there were at least two children, and possibly different mothers. > > Any help to further my research, would be very much appreciated by both > myself, and my cousin on Tas. > > Many thanks for reading this, and any suggestions that you can make. > > Regards, > > Frances > Stanmore, Middlesex, England.