Many convicts are well documented and well researched by family in Australia. There are several very useful convict websites from Claim-a-convict to NSW State Records and National Library Trove Newspapers. As has been pointed out, very few returned after their term expired. Many had made a good life for themselves in the colonies, others could not afford the fare (around 25 pounds in the 1850s). I have found difficulties in finding convicts who died early after their pardons or tickets of leave, especially those who did not marry or have family. If they settled in the rural parts of the colony, records were not as well kept until the 1850s and I have even found that some deaths were not registered, or the burial records have not been transformed into death registrations. Their names and details were often recorded incorrectly on their death certificates and other records. Even though Edmund Greenfield did not gain permission to marry, it may be worth tracing the woman as well. Diane Cole Sydney Member 15610