If this date is from the National Archives online catalogue it's unlikely to be a mistranscription ....this is from legal papers not a headstone ..the writing is usually perfectly legible and the transcribers are not amateurs. Irene error by someone transcribing the 1843 information. 3, 5 & 8 often get miss > transcribed. I had a look but couldn't find a link to the second conviction > in Tasmania in Book 4 No 1148. I will have to send an enquiry to the > Tasmanian archives office. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > SCT-RENFREW-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > The second conviction in 1848 with the same people was probably an