Josie Re your last paragraph, according to one world tree Amos Bessor Cole born 1803 in Woodchurch married Ann Newman in Tasmania on 23 Dec 1843 and had 7 children by her. Was this a bigamous marriage !! or had Hannah died by then. There was a Hannah Cole died Tenterden in 1843 but not till Dec1/4 would the news have reached Tasmania by 23 rd Dec I do love a mystery Regards Philip ---- Original Message ----- From: "Josie Mackie" <josie.mackie@tesco.net> To: <eng-ken-woodchurch@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2007 9:30 AM Subject: Re: [ENG-KEN-WOODCHURCH] Edward Cole born 1832 > Dear Steven, > First I should say I have no answers for your query......just a few > speculations. > You said in a previous email that Amos Besor Cole was: "... previously > sentenced for > transportation in 1825 but (convict record) states he served his time at > Sheerness" ...finally transported in 1836. > There are four baptisms that seem to refer to his family on the site: > George in 1822, Amos in 1824, Richard in 1830 and Edward William in 1832. > Could it be > that his wife, Harriet gave birth to the first two in 1822 and 1824 before > his first conviction...he then served time in 1825, > returned to village after sentence of ? years in time to have Richard in > 1830, then was reconvicted and was on hulks by 1832, and tranported > in 1836? The last baptism, of Edward William in 1832 could be a late > baptism (sometimes children were baptised many years after birth) or could > he be illegitimate (?) as the record on the site doesn't actually say Amos > was his father, unless I've misread it, just that Harriet is the wife of > Amos. Did Harriet and the children follow him out to Australia > eventually, > do you know? > best wishes, Josie > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ENG-KEN-WOODCHURCH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >