"Lance" <buckles8@bigpond.com> wrote in message news:mailman.5.1254251722.10152.genanz@rootsweb.com... > Have a look at the following website it gives you samples of "Ticket of > Leave,Pardons, Certificates of Freedom & Convict bank accounts > > Regards, > Lance What website Lance? > > buckles8@bigpond.com > > Messages scanned by Norton's Anti Virus 2009 > -------Original Message------- > > From: FarmI > Date: 9/29/2009 5:45:24 PM > To: genanz@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: Convict pardons/Tickets to leave > > "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? > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > GENANZ-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > >