Hi Don, I found the records of one of my ancestors on microfiche, so they still exist in some form. I can't answer your second question, except that there is a large book called 'Convicts Unbound' by Marjorie Tipping that tells the story of these convicts and lists their transport as the Calcutta. Amanda Wenn > On 1 Jul 2014, at 5:43 pm, "Don Bradmore" <djb100@mmnet.com.au> wrote: > > Dear Listers, I feel sure that this question will have been asked before but > I still don't know the answer: Are conduct records for the 290+ convicts > who were brought across Bass Strait from the settlement at Port Phillip to > the Derwent by David COLLINS in January 1804 still available, and if so, > where are they? I can't find them via the TAHO search portal. Have they > not survived? Incidentally, on the TAHO site, these 290+ convicts are > listed as having been brought to VDL on 'HMS Calcutta', but that is > incorrect, isn't it? They actually arrived on 'Ocean'. Certainly, they had > been brought to Port Phillip on 'HMS Calcutta' but when COLLINS decided to > abandon that settlement, the captain of 'HMS Calcutta (WOODRIFF) refused to > go to VDL. He sailed straight back to England (via Sydney), leaving > COLLINS no choice but to use the store ship 'Ocean' to transfer his > settlement to the Derwent. Is there any dispute about that? Why then are > these convicts listed as having arrived on 'HMS Calcutta'? Don Bradmore, > Central Victoria. > > ------------------------------- > AUS-Tasmania Mailing List Website http://www.rootsweb.com/~austashs/ > Contact Admin AUS-Tasmania-Admin@rootsweb.com > Search the Archive (type AUS-Tasmania in the list box) > http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to AUS-TASMANIA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message