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Australian Convicts Lookups

by Rosie

Mar 6, 2010

I am able to do look-ups for convict related informtion, mostly NSW.

I have copies of
  1. Lesley Uebel's Convict Anthology
  2. The  Mechant's Women  (Elizabeth Rushden)- story of the Bussorah Merchant passengers
  3. The Boxbourbury and the Emu (Elizabeth Hook) - story of 2 convict transports and passengers
  4. Catholics in Early Sydney
  5. Barefoot and pregnant - anthology of Irish famine orphans.
  6. The Convicts and Exiles transported from Ireland  1791 to 1820 (James Donoghue)
  7. 1828 census
  8. Pioneer Registers for Parramatta, Maitland, Minmi, Cessnock, Brisbane Waters,  and the Hunter Valley
  9. Cemetery registers for Mays Hill, Old and New Wallsend, Minmi, Stockton and Maitland
  10. Notorious Strumpets : lists of women transported to Tasmania
Rosie
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    Co Ordinator

    Hi Rosie
    This should get the ball rolling with all that info

    thank you for your generous offer to the people here on GW

    Wayne

    Mar 7, 2010

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      Beverly Sedge

      Hi Rosie,
      It is very generous of you to do this for people, I wonder if you can help me?

      My relative is Jesse Higgins. He served life for stealing sheep in 1834. He traveled on the Lloyds ship in 1837 dep Mar 1837 and arriving in New South Wales in July 1837. I am interested in finding anything I can out about him. Do you think he will be in Lesley Uebel's Convict Anthology ? Let me know if you need anything more.

      Bev
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      Oct 16, 2010

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        Michelle Kirwan

        Hi Rosie
        I'm trying to work out if the Elijah Ealden who married my great great great grandmother, Rosanna/Rosina Lynch was really James Ealden a convict who arrived in Victoria (NSW) in 1831 aboard "Lady Harewood".
        I have index entries for James - ticket of leave, conditional pardon, he appears in the registers for the Hulk "Retribution" in Woolwich and was transported there from Maidstone, and left there to go to NSW. He's in the 1841 census in Parramatta.
        Elijah Ealden doesnt seem to appear anywhere except in Melbourne in November 1840, marrying Rosannah Lynch who had arrived on "Himalaya" (recorded as Rosanna) in September 1840, a Bounty Passenger 20/21 years old.
        When she remarried, she was Rosina Ealden formerly Lynch, a widow and gave the date of her first husband's death as 10 July 1857. She married James Hammond in Collins St Melbourne on 13 March 1858 and recorded having one child from her previous marriage. At her death she is recorded as having had 2 marriages and a child from each marriage - Marion aged 38 and Rosina aged 30. On Rosina Hammond's birth cert she is Rosina Hammond nee Lynch. Her first husband on her death cert is recorded as John Phillips.
        I can find no record anywhere of Elijah Ealden or Marion as Ealden, Lynch, Hammond or Phillips. I have found a birth entry for Mary J Lynch par James Lynch and Rosanna, in the right year for Marion to be 39 when her mother died.I havent yet purchased the certificate
        Any help would be greatly appreciated - more background and my theories about this are here if you are interested.
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        Dec 8, 2010