Find my past has poor / work house records, you can always search for them there. On 2014-01-14, at 3:48 PM, Shirley Fyfe wrote: > My 3rd great grandmother - Charlotte SHAW was born Circa 1823 in Manchester > & was tried, convicted on her third offence & transported to Australia (Van > Demons Land - VDL) aboard 'Tasmania' in September 1844, arriving in December > of the same year. > > > >> From her various convict records (of which we have learnt a great deal), she > indicated that she had a Mother - Elizabeth at native place, Brothers - > James / George (abbreviated & hard to determine if it's Jas OR Geo); Henry; > John & William and a Sister - Eliza all living in Manchester. No father is > listed & Charlotte herself has said that she had been 'on the town for 5 or > 6 years'. > > > > We have no marriage certificate/s to provide additional family background & > have been relying solely on Charlotte's convict records to provide what > information we do have about her life. From what we know, she had two > children as a convict, one of whom survived to adulthood & to whom I am > descended. > > > > I, along with some other family researchers, have been unsuccessful so far > in locating Charlotte's family in any Census record prior to her > transportation in 1844. There is one family whom we have found with an > Elizabeth & a child in the 1841 Census who could be one of Charlotte's > brothers, but there is nothing certain about this . . . without more > information on ages of her siblings, the task is that much more difficult. > > > > I'm wondering if anyone might have further ideas on how we might be able to > trace Charlotte's family in Manchester, or are we to be resigned to the fact > that this might be all we ever know about them? > > > > Kind regards, > > > > Shirley FYFE (nee ROBERTS) > > <mailto:shirleyfyfe@gmail.com.au> shirleyfyfe@gmail.com.au > > [Researching: BLACK, FLETCHER, FYFE, GORDON, HERBERT, JACKSON, LORD, LUNN, > McRAE, MARTIN, PEARLESS, ROBERTS, ROBINSON, SHAW, STENNER] > > > > > :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: > > Buy or sell family research items on the GEN-MAT-UKI mailing list. No fees! > > The list's administrator can be contacted at LancsGen-admin@rootsweb.com > > :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to LANCSGEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message