Thanks both to Les Fin and Martyn Smith who have both replied with very helpful information :-) I am very grateful :-) Best wishes, June :-) ________________________________ From: "theshipslist-request@rootsweb.com" <theshipslist-request@rootsweb.com> To: theshipslist@rootsweb.com Sent: Wed, 21 April, 2010 9:01:24 Subject: THESHIPSLIST Digest, Vol 5, Issue 79 Today's Topics: 1. Loomer / Lomer (june wayland) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 11:03:40 +0000 (GMT) From: june wayland <lanc5696_42@yahoo.com> Subject: [TSL] Loomer / Lomer To: THESHIPSLIST@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <77378.23355.qm@web27207.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Hi I am researching the LOOMER / LOMER names. They spread far and wide, including Canada and USA. In 1820, a John Loomer was convicted of theft and sentenced to death, which was changed to transportation to Australia. He arrived in Sydney in 1822. I note the LOOMER family (himself with wife and children), were living in Sydney in 1828 and he was a servant to a Captain, location, Darling Harbour. His life would have been considerably better I think than what he had in the East End of London at that time. I'm interested if there are any LOOMER / LOMER descendents in Sydney and area, who would like to enlarge on the family history. John left England as John LOOMER but was recorded in Sydney as John LOMER. So I guess all the descendents will bear the name LOMER. My ancestors in East London bore the LOOMER name. As yet, I cannot find a positive link for John with my family in the same district of the East End. John Lomer / Loomer was born c.1799, so records are not always available on the internet. I presume he was single when convicted and met and married in Australia. I have to seek out what I found for the Australian record, as it was some years ago that I found it in the Family Records Centre in Kensington, London. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Because I am too far from the British or Australian archives, I have to use the internet. Many thanks, June :-) ------------------------------ To contact the THESHIPSLIST list administrator, send an email to THESHIPSLIST-admin@rootsweb.com. To post a message to the THESHIPSLIST mailing list, send an email to THESHIPSLIST@rootsweb.com. __________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to THESHIPSLIST-request@rootsweb.com with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body of the email with no additional text. End of THESHIPSLIST Digest, Vol 5, Issue 79 *******************************************