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