I am researching one of my husband's ancestors, a William Donkersley whose father was a Private in the British Army who was at one stage guarding convicts on a convict ship from UK to Australia and presumably at a convict camp in Australia. After years of hunting his birth registration, I have now found William Donkersley with his parents named in an Australian Census as having a birthplace of Vasse, Western Australia c. 1844 and in another Census as Thevase, Western Australia c. 1844. In an English Census William Donkersley has given his birthplace as Swan River. I cannot find Thevase or Vasse on an atlas. Has anyone out there any idea where I can track down where Thevase or Vasse is, and where I can find out the original Census which is the source of this information or possibly where his birth registration might be (he's not registered in any of the British Army birth records). Many thanks Sue Holden