On 24/08/2010 04:16, Lesley Albertson wrote: > > For many years now, I have been looking for my 2g-grandfather Frederick > HENRY ... who was born c1809, according to his Australian (NSW) Death > certificate, in London. Parents, according to the same Death > Certificate, were Thomas HENRY and Elizabeth JONES. > > Frederick was convicted at the Old Bailey in London in 1830, for > stealing a handkerchief value 3s, and was transported to NSW, where he > spent the rest of his life. His Convict His Convict Indent gives his > occupation as Actor, Hatter (3 years) and Clerk ... not your average > convict (he was certainly literate). > > Now, a possible breakthrough came when I found an Elizabeth HENRY, > dressmaker, in the 1841 Census, living in St Pancras. The 1851 and 1861 > Censuses show her *still* living in that area, with sons Nicholas C (b. > 1825, West Indies, Landed Proprietor & Banker Clerk), and Albert C C > (b. 1831, St. Kitts, West Indies, a Clerk on the Stock Exchange). > > Elizabeth herself was b. 1792, in Totteridge, Hertfordshire, and is > described as *Fund Holder & West India Proprietor*. > > Maybe I am clutching at straws ... but Elizabeth is certainly the right > age, and the occupation *Clerk* gives me hope IF Frederick was born in 1809 and IF Nicholas was his son and born in 1825, it would make Frederick about 16 when his son was born. Certainly not impossible, but unlikely. -- Jenny M Benson

Hi Jenny and Listers, > IF Frederick was born in 1809 and IF Nicholas was his son and born in > 1825, it would make Frederick about 16 when his son was born. > Certainly not impossible, but unlikely. No - my hypothesis is that both Frederick and Nicholas were sons of Elizabeth HENRY (listed as a widow, in various Censuses), and a missing Thomas HENRY. (A Clerk, according to Frederick's NSW Death Certificate). Nicholas *did* have a wife Rebecca (born West Indies, 1831), and a son Frederick W. (born London, 1858) ... that is from the 1871 Census. But, of course, there is no evidence that he was named after his uncle Fred, the transported convict. Again, just clutching at straws :-) Cheers, Lesley (Nundle, Australia)