"johnb" <deo-c989@myamail.com> wrote in message news:h9pt7k$m70$1@aioe.org... > Could someone tell me what these contain please? I know nothing of > Australian genealogy or where to start tracing someone who has completed > their sentence. > > I thought the whole of my family was in the UK but have just found my > ggg-grandfather John Dorset/Dorsett(Dossett) b c1805 Middlesex (marr > Jemima Peplow 1831) who was sentenced to transportation at the Old Bailey > on 11 April 1840 and sent to Van Diemans Land on the Susan on 21 April > 1842 which arrived 21 July 1842. > > According to Ancestry there is a record for him in New South Wales and > Tasmania, Australia, Convict Pardons and Tickets of Leave, 1834-1859 but I > cannot see it as I don't have a Worldwide subscription so don't know > whether it would add any useful information. I've recently had to embark on some convict research and find myself getting nowhere fast given that the convict I'm hunting for was convicted in India and the records for that are apparently at the BL. Lucky you to at least already know the trial details :-)) If you go to the Society of Australian Genealogists (SAG) and select under 'Most Popular Pages" the section called "Our Research Guides" then "Convicts to NSW" you will see a section in there on "Ticket of Leave" which will tell you some of the things you 'might' find on a TOL (if you're lucky). The Convict Indents might give you some good info in regards to what your anscestore looked like (height, hair colour, scars, etc) Do you know if he stayed in Oz or if he returned to the UK?