Dave Boon, I thank you for all the informarion you searched & worked on and sent to me and Alan and others. I sure am glad to have this information and I emailed it to my Cousin Kathy Knibbs in Florida. These names below are Thomas' parent and siblings: CHILDREN OF JOHN & SARAH KNIBBS WILLIAM KNIBBS BORN 1791 IN WROXTON DIED 06-02-1851 OCCUPATION: AG LABS ELIZABETH KNIBBS WIFE OF WILLIAM KNIBBS THOMAS KNIBBS BORN 1798 IN WROXTON DIED 1856 (PRISON FOR 14 YEARS PER 1828 CENSUS) MARY KNIBBS WIFE OF THOMAS KNIBBS MARY KNIBBS BORN 1800 IN WROXTON THOMAS LOVELL HUSBAND OF MARY KNIBBS GEORGE KNIBBS BORN 1801 IN WROXTON ENGLAND BAPTISED 04-00-1802 DIED 1865 BURIED IN WALLKILL CEMETERY, MIDDLETOWN NY HANNAH GARRET WIFE OF GEORGE KNIBBS BORN 1798 DIED 1865 BURIED IN WALLKILL CEMETERY, MIDDLETOWN NY RICHARD KNIBBS BORN 1803 IN WROXTON BAPTISED 09-23-1803 DIED ?? PHOEBE TAYLOR WIFE OF RICHARD KNIBBS JOSEPH KNIBBS BORN 1805 IN WROXTON BAPTISED 07-14-1805 DIED ?? ANN MELLAVISE WIFE OF JOSEPH KNIBBS JOHN KNIBBS BORN 1811 IN WROXTON BAPTISED 05-05-1811 DIED 10-04-1886 OCCUPATION: LABORER LOUISA KNIBBS WIFE OF JOHN KNIBBS (FIRST) SARAH KNIBBS WIFE OF JOHN KNIBBS (SECOND) ELIZABETH KNIBBS BORN 1813 BAPTISED 09-26-1813 IN BALSCOTT OXFORD DIED ?? BURIED ST. PETER EAST OXFORD ANN KNIBBS BORN 1817 BAPTISED 05-24-1817 DIED 05-29-1880 JOHN BRANE HUSBAND OF ANN KNIBBS GRANDPARENTS WILILIAM KNIBBS BORN IN WROXTON, ENGLAND CIRCA 1750'S MARY WARTERS KNIBBS BORN IN WROXTON ENGLAND CIRCA 1750'S ----- Original Message ----- From: "Boon, David G" <david.boon@education.tas.gov.au> To: <KNIBB-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2004 11:58 PM Subject: RE: [K/NIBB/S] Thomas NIBBS Transported 14 years 1829 > Laura and others interested, > > Following up on my previous message about the Franks brothers who Thomas > Knibbs was assigned to, they were Charles and John Franks. They also had > a brother, Edward (jun). Edward (jun), Charles and their father, Edward > are mentioned on the following site > http://www.rootsweb.com/~austashs/indexes/grant_f.htm > > Edward (sen) was married to Harriet Eliza Lowther as mentioned on > http://www.londonancestor.com/ri/339.htm > > A servant of one member of the Franks family was killed by aborigines in > 1825 and John Franks and one of his servants, William Walker, were > attacked by aborigines in 1828. Walker was killed. This information is > on the pdf document > http://www.historians.org.au/forumsupport/Casualties-VDL.PDF This gives > some idea of the place that Thomas Knibbs came to just two years later. > > Aborigines killed a Captain Franks in Port Phillip (now Victoria) in > 1833 http://www.utas.edu.au/library/info/collec/arch/SubjectR.ascii This > was Charles as shown on > http://www.utas.edu.au/library/info/collec/arch/Roy.ascii > > There is a book about early settlement in Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania) > that has been digitised and made available on the WWW at > http://setis.library.usyd.edu.au/ozlit/pdf/p00004.pdf A former servant > of one of the Franks family is mentioned in this book as being a > bushranger (the term used for an escaped convict who was at large and > committing robberies and other crimes). The reference to this is at the > end of the 8th page in chapter 10. This gives a really good idea of what > Thomas Knibbs found when he arrived an actually mentions Green Ponds > (now Kempton) > > Hope all of this is of interest > > David > > > > > > > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 >