Robyn Horan wrote: > Hi Charani, > > In case you haven't seen these - your Uriah gets a mention on page 7 > as having had a Ticket of Leave cancelled in 1843. > > http://gazette.slv.vic.gov.au/images/1843/N/general/44.pdf > > And here - for his conditional pardon on page 2 > > http://gazette.slv.vic.gov.au/images/1848/N/general/135.pdf Many thanks for those links :)) That's information I didn't have before. I have a feeling Uriah went AWOl three times in all because he tried three times to get his ToL before he was finally successful. > I didn't see any reference to requesting permission for his family to > come here. You could try posting to AUS-PT-JACKSON-CONVICTS rootsweb > list. The woman who runs that list, Lesley Uebel, is THE specialist in > convict records. She can probably tell you what colour his hair was. I don't think he did ask for them to join him in Australia. I'm fairly sure he left Australia and asked his family to join him wherever he was heading but it would still be worth putting a piece about him on Lesley's list just in case somebody finds something about him. Thank you for mentioning her list. Lesley has already helped me with quite a bit of information :)) One thing that has occurred to me is that Eleanor may have remarried but under her maiden name. MARSH is a fairly common name, so she won't be easy to find. FreeREG may be able to help. If she did then that could also account for Emily Maud's disappearance as well, but not George's. There was another convict named ANDOW who was alias ANDREWS. I also know that an ANDOW family who emigrated to Canada turned up as ANDREWS over there. > Good luck. Thanks :)) I think I'm going to need it :)) Again, many thanks :)) -- Charani (UK) OPC for Walton and Greinton, SOM Asst OPC for Ashcott and Shapwick, SOM http://wsom-opc.org.uk

Pleased to help - I've had a lot of help from the group. There's no sign of him (or any other Ando, Andow or Andoe in Queensland but there are a few Andows and Andoes in Victoria https://online.justice.vic.gov.au/bdm/index-search Just put the surname in and hit enter - don't worry about any other fields. It will come up a number of "records shown on 1 page". It cost 99 Australian cents to view it - at the exchange rate that's very cheap. Might be worth a try on both spellings. I've never used that system so I'm not sure how much info is on it. There's also the marriage of a Charles Andoe in NSW and the birth and death of an infant son, all occuring in 1886. Probably not worth following up as it's much more expensive here in NSW, aound $17 each through a transcription agent. Do you know about the National Library of Australia's digitised newspapers? I did a quick search and found his pardon. For example. Sydney Morning Herald, November 25, 1848 (but I think the pardon date was 1st October) CONDITIONAL PARDON.-HÍS Excellency the Governor has directed it to be notified, that Her Majesty has been pleased to authorise the issue of Pardons to the undermentioned persons, on condition that they do not return to the countries or colonies from which they were respectively transported during the remainder of the term of their respective sentences. Pardons available everywhere, save in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Dated 1st October, 1848. Uriah Ando, Claudine; http://newspapers.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/search?adv=y