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