Carol Roche <rochegen@gmail.com> said: >Patrick Roche was transported to Tasmania in 1843 it says on his convict >record that his parents were as written above, and says that he was a >native of Mitchells Town, County Cork <deleted> >his convict record says he was 30 in 1843 and his marrage certificate >says he was 45 in 1862 and his death certificate says he was 96 in 1898 The National Archives of Ireland database of Transportation Records at http://www.nationalarchives.ie/topics/transportation/search01.html shows a 32-year-old Patrick Roche sentenced to 14 years transportation for burglary in a trial in Cork on 2 January 1843. While there may not be mention of his relations, you may well be able to learn more about the offence for which he was convicted by searching local newspapers for the period of the trial, and, if the date of the arrest is mentioned, you can look for reports of the crime as well. Family members are sometimes mentioned as being witneses or accessories, particularly so in the more severe crimes. Patrick having been given 14 years, instead of the customary 7, could well have been suffciently notorious a criminal to warrant a more detailed report in the local press. See http://www.nli.ie/newsplan/default.htm for a list of newspapers available for the various counties of Ireland. Your Patrick's trial might be found in the Cork Examiner. To get an idea of the extent to which trails were reported in the days before Court-TV, put the terms transported or transportation in the search engine of the IrelandOldnews website. And if you put in "mitchelstown" you will get hits on 67 pages. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dennis Ahern | Ireland Newspaper Abstracts Acton, Massachusetts | http://www.IrelandOldNews.com - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -