Dear All, Wow! What a talented multi-lingual group this is - "carpoi" = Maori for good. Thanks to Julie in NZ, Peter, and Helen for their extemely quick resplies, Carol Brill. -----Original Message----- From: Julie Thorne [mailto:juliethorne@xtra.co.nz] Sent: Wednesday, 2 July 2014 3:19 PM To: Carol Brill Subject: Re: [AUS-Tas] John Tynan - an "exquisitely tattoed" Maori 1839 Kapai? means good Might help - I don't speak Maori. Julie -----Original Message----- From: Carol Brill Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2014 5:08 PM To: 'Tasmania' Subject: [AUS-Tas] John Tynan - an "exquisitely tattoed" Maori 1839 Dear Julie and list, This man I've just tripped over is interesting - apparently he was a seaman as early as 1826, and was still in Hobart town more than a decade later. I can't positively find him on the Colonial Links site, but he looks as though he was a resident for some time, and there are John Tynans on the Col. Links site. I wonder if anyone can identify the meaning of the word "Carpoi" too? John Tynan, a New Zealander, exquisitely tatooed, was charged with having fallen into the prevailing vice of the Europeans, for which he was ordered to pay the usual penalty. Carpoi, said John, as he left the bar, apparently well satisfied with the result. - Colonial Times 12 November 1839 Tynan John Seaman Sydney Packet 25 May 1826 Hobart Port Jackson CSO63/1/1 p222 Best wishes, Carol Brill. ------------------------------- 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 ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2014.0.4592 / Virus Database: 3986/7779 - Release Date: 07/01/14