Many thanks to all those who replied with suggestions as to the possible fates of the six children of my non-WAR - Bristol - Criminal Family and for the information that they have found... Ann in Cairns - who confirmed the belief that the Transportee *did* marry (and quite shortly after her arrival) in Australia, but was unable to trace any of the children arriving there 'later'. She also reminded me that the two oldest (assuming both had survived) would've been old enough to obtain some sort of employment which *may* have been sufficient to keep the family together. Anne in Sheffield - who supplied a url that largely confirmed my gloomy suspicions that 1809 was too early for any real sort of chance for any sort of official 'care' would have existed (and quite coincidentally answered another running topic, that's the subject of an accompanying posting). Viv - who found the marriages of the middle two children (and the baptism of a grandchild) - establishing that at least two survived to adulthood. Paul - whose bleak suggestion "or they'd have died" at least matched my own feelings on the matter, although as yet no burials/deaths of the remaining four have come to light. Wendy - who suggested the possibilities that the parish officers might have taken the children on their mother's arrest, or that they'd lived on the streets. I've still failed to find any of them in the 1841 or 1851 Censuses - but I'm slowly plodding my way through the Indexes! I'll reply to you all individually during the day. Thanks again for the insights... Gus ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gus Tysoe" <gustysoe@tiscali.co.uk> To: <warwick@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, September 28, 2007 10:10 AM Subject: [WAR] Criminals' Children - early 1800s Hello List, Although the people 'behind' this enquiry have no known connection with WAR, I'm quietly confident that there must have been a number of WAR families where a similar set of circumstances arose... I have a gentleman who was hanged in 1805 for 'uttering' forged Bank of England Notes. Four years later, his widow was found guilty of being 'in possession' of forged Bank Notes (and some base silver coins), and was transported to Australia. At the time she was found guilty she and her late husband had baptised 6 children between 1796 and 1805 - and there is no mention in the transportation records that she was accompanied by any infant children. I've so far been unable to make any likely identification of any of them in the Censuses or the NBI. The question that I'm hoping the Collective Wisdom of the List may be able to answer is: "What was likely to've happened to those children?" There were no Social Services in 1809 to take them into "care" - and (as far as I can see) no others of the same surname in the area where the trials and baptisms were held. Help, please! Gus ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to WARWICK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message