Hello List, I am researching the convicts who travelled to van Diemen's Land aboard a vessel named "Rodney" in 1848. Several pick up points were detailed in the Surgeon's Log, the only record of this journey, the Captain's Log not having survived. In August, 1848 "40 juvenile convicts" were received aboard from Parkhurst. I have the document which lists all the convicts who were to travel on this journey - in all, 312 names. There is no way, however, that I can think of, by which I might determine who were the Parkhurst Boys because no ages are given, and, although the youths were to be embarked from IoW, their places of trial could have been anywhere in the country. Except for one lad who fell ill and whose treatment is detailed by the ship's surgeon, all others are just part of the remaining 311 names. Can anybody please suggest a course of research/exploration/enquiry I might pursue? Yours, Julie