This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/VWC.2ACI/833.4.2.1 Message Board Post: I am wondering if John Prendergast came from Kildare.. May 1798....he was detained at Castledermot. and was originally to be tried by a Wm Grasey....after being tried in Dublin he was put aboard the Minerva for Australia....he was apparently good friends with the Wicklow Chief Dwyer out here in Australia....any ideas about his background would be appreciated.....Lorna