Just for your information, these convicts & vagabonds would NOT have been transported to Australia in 1737-43. "The eleven ships of the fleet, known today as "The First Fleet". under the command of Captain Arthur Phillip RN took their leave from Portsmouth, England early on Sunday **13 May 1787** bound for a virtually unknown shore eight long months and half a world away. . . . . . Aboard were some 750 convicts from Britian's overcrowded prison system. They were bound for Botany Bay, there to **establish** the first European settlement on Australian soil." Margaret ----- Original Message ----- From: "Pat Connors" <nymets11@pacbell.net> To: <CAN-ONTARIO-IRISH-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, January 16, 2006 05:03 Subject: [Ontario Irish] Deported in 1700s > Here is a website listing, by county, those deported/transported from > Ireland from 1737-1743. It is a big list (1,920 persons in 7 yrs): > http://www.ulsterancestry.com/ua-free_Convicts-and-Vagabonds.html > While it gives dates, and whether the transported person was a convict > or a vagabond, I can't find where they were transported to. However, I > would guess it was Australia. > > -- > Pat Connors, Sacramento CA > http://www.connorsgenealogy.com > > > > ==== CAN-ONTARIO-IRISH Mailing List ==== > Check out the ONTARIO IRISH webpage at: > http://www.connorsgenealogy.com/OntarioIrish/ > > ============================== > Search Family and Local Histories for stories about your family and the > areas they lived. Over 85 million names added in the last 12 months. > Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13966/rd.ashx > >