Many thanks for the additional information. I'll follow up on that and it might be worth following up the Charles ANDOE marriage as well. I shall have to make sure I have nothing else to do for a couple of days while I go through the newspaper archive <VBG> I've found 1131 entries for one of my family names :)) The 155 for ANDOW are much more manageable :)) I wonder if the gold rushes in Australia and California influenced what Uriah did. Robyn Horan wrote: > 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 > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BRISTOL_AND_DISTRICT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > -- Charani (UK) OPC for Walton, Greinton and Clutton, SOM Asst OPC for Ashcott and Shapwick, SOM http://wsom-opc.org.uk