Forwarding message to CORRECT address ... please respond to the write and not to me. Bright Blessings Sandie List Administrator > >From: [email protected] > >To: [email protected] > >Subject: Joseph and William Dixon - Sibsey Lincs > >Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 07:47:57 -0700 > >MIME-Version: 1.0 > Hello everyone > >We have joined the list in the hope that we may be able to locate William > >Dixon my husbands 3 x gfather from Sibsey Lincs. > > > >We recently became interested in the convicts of Australia and Tasmania, > >through my husbands line. His ggfather was born in 1825 in Sibsey , > >Lincolnshire, the son of William Dixon and Mary Hubbart. Married in > >Blidworth, Notts he became a Greengrocer in Kirkby in Ashfield Notts, an > >area > >within the coal mining industry. > >When we started to follow the line in Sibsey, there was no trace of > William > >with his family at the time of the 1841 census, whilst looking through the > >Lincs Archives a reference led me to believe that William and Joseph > Dixon, > >brothers, Labourers from the parish of Sibsey were sentenced to Death and > >then commuted to Transportation for Life to Tasmania, their crime was to > >steal and slaughter a sheep belonging to R Gosling of Skirbeck in 1829. > >They were transported in 1831 to Tasmania aboard the Red Rover, > information > >obtained from a convict book at Lincoln Library supplied information that > >Joseph died in Tasmania in 1840, however, this has not yet been verified. > >With some friendly help from the Tasmanian mailing list, we understand > that > >William Dixon was sent to Melbourne in 1852 and requested that his family > >be > >allowed to join him, this request was granted because he helped to catch > >some > >bushrangers! > > > >His family did not join William and we would like some advice on how to > >investigate what happened to him in Melbourne. Whether he stayed there or > >moved elsewhere, his birth date at the time of his trial would have been > >1798, although we have not found a baptism in the area around Sibsey yet > >for > >William or Joseph. > >Jean and Alan Dixon >