Thank you Ted Webber & Charani now have John Eason b1811 transported to Australia for crimes 1836 [have a list of them] His daughter Tamar b 1834 committed a crime, went to prison, sometime after serving her sentence she emigrated on her own to Australia. Eliza Eason nee Raindle her mother b1813 had 7 other children after 1836 she committed a crime, on the 1861 census she is residence at Wilton Prison Somerset with her 10 month old son Luke her other children are in Chard Union Workhouse

I'm rather curious as to what crime Tamar Eason committed, when she committed the crime and the resultant prison sentence? At the census of 1851, at 16 years of age, she was in care at a workhouse with half-siblings and then, by 1853 she had not only migrated to Australia but had been married in Victoria, Australia, presumably after re-uniting with her father as she resided in the same area. see that wonderful Merriot Families site at http://www.merriottfamiliesgenealogy.net/eason_to_australia.htm This timescale leaves little time for Tamar to serve the sort of sentences they handed out those days so perhaps it was before her sixteenth birthday? Paul lilac wrote: > Thank you Ted Webber & Charani now have John Eason b1811 transported to Australia for crimes 1836 [have a list of them] > His daughter Tamar b 1834 committed a crime, went to prison, sometime after serving her sentence she emigrated on her own to Australia. > Eliza Eason nee Raindle her mother b1813 had 7 other children after 1836 she committed a crime, on the 1861 census she is residence at Wilton Prison Somerset with her 10 month old son Luke her other children are in Chard Union Workhouse > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ENG-SOMERSET-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > __________ NOD32 3071 (20080502) Information __________ > > This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. > http://www.eset.com > > > >