Pursuant to recent emails regarding the counties of VDL.. >From History of Tasmania..John West 1852, re-issued 1971 Angus and Robertson... " The settled part of the island is divided into 11 counties,- three northern, Devon, Dorset and Cornwall; 4 midland-Westmoreland, Somerset,Glamorgan, and Cumberland; and 4 southern-Kent, Buckingham,Pembroke, and Monmouth; each having an area of 1600 square miles. These areas are divided into hundreds and parishes, the former containing 100 and the latter 25 square miles". I have this book on loan, if anyone wants a brief description of any part of the convict system please ask. Only notable people are mentioned in the book but it has lots of general information on transportation. For instance descriptions of the main towns and what they contained, number of convicts transported.. 1788-1840 26,741 males 4,052 females 1841-1853 24,758 males 8,743 females although the early records were not accurate an estimate has been made that a total of 73,500 which includes those sent to VDL from other places such as Norfolk Island. Great Swan Port also Port of Swans, now Cygnet. Regards to all, Les Pitt

Hi Les I would like the description of Fingal, Tasmania and the number of convicts transported there. Regards, Margaret