I found the following on the Tasmania list sent to them by - Lauris Crampton <crampton@senet.com.au> I thought It may be of interest to our listers as we have Brodribbs in Gippsland. It is a name I am researching, however I am not sure if they fit into my research. "Williams Adams Brodribb was tried and convicted of administering unlawful oaths at the Gloucester Assizes (Lent Assizes) April 1816. William Adams Brobribb, who was the solicitor who was involved in the poaching episode by way of administering unlawful oaths to the participants while he himself did not go on the poaching trip, was tried and convicted of administering unlawful oaths to persons and sentenced to transportation for 7 years. His home was near that of Allen's and he knew the men involved. He was also sent to the Justitia being received there on 22 May 1816, he was aged 27 at that time. He left the Justitia on 5 September 1816 and sent to NSW on the Sir William Bensley. Whilst the ship was in Sydney, Governor Macquarie noted that Brodribb had been trained as a solicitor and he was then assigned to Lieutenant Sorell's party and sent to Tasmania. (Lieut. Sorell and his family also travelled out on the Sir William Bensley.) Sorell embarked on the Cochin on Thursday, 27 March 1817 for Hobart Town. Sorell's departure was hastened by the Administration in Sydney who felt that the settlement at Hobart was in a very parlous state and greatly in need of a sound governor. Brodbribb was also sent to Van Diemen's Land on the Elizabeth Henrietta and must have joined Sorell's party in Hobart. Brodribb was admitted to the bar in 1817, his family joined him in Tasmania in 1818. They travelled on the Friendship (or the Duke of Wellington) to Sydney, and thence to Hobart on the Duke of Wellington, according to the Hobart Town Gazette Supplement February 21, 1818, wife Prudence and 5 or 6 children, including eldest son also William Adams Brodribb and daughter Lavinia. The lived in Sandy Bay for a time. Later he moved to Victoria and spent time in Gippsland tutoring Lavinia's children. He died 1861 in Victoria. One of my ancestors (Lauris's) was involved in the 'poaching' episode and the above is taken from my file. The son William was a squatter who had several runs in Vic and NSW and travelled to England at least twice (I think) and addressed several influential gatherings whilst there. Dont know much about the son. It is reported that he went to the mainland because there was a better chance of someone with 'small means' making a lot of money! In Gloucester they lived near the Morteon area, which is up from Thornbury, on the road to Col. Berkeley's property on which the foul deed was done."