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From: "Dawn Webb" <>
Subject: RE: [AUS-MELB] Re: FLOODY
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 22:03:18 +1100
In-Reply-To: <5b.657d3518.2f67fda9@aol.com>


It is mightly late for transpoortation to Victoria or NSW isn't it? And
there was very little to Victoia anyway any time as I understand it..

Try variations of spelling, don't confine your search to Red Jacket..

And I think it was common enough for the men to go to the other side of
the world in search of gold OR to get away from an unhappy marriage, or
both!

Do you have his death cert? With any luck it may give more details.
Though if it is like my g g gran's death cert, there is very little to
identify her, most fields being marked "unknown". And check for
children with him as a father, too, you never know your luck. Do you
know if his wife and children followed him out? Or are they still home
in England at least in 1861 census? Mum's marital status might give you
a clue. Or she may have remarried I suppose, but one would assume the
kids would still be with her. I guess in that case you have to hope
they were named unusual names like Hepzibah Jezebel etc!

Dawn (Melbourne)

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Subject: [AUS-MELB] Re: FLOODY


I know very little at this moment, about transportation of felons or
indeed,
legal migration, so please bear with me if I am asking daft questions!

I have just discovered that my 3 X Great Grandfather, Thomas FLOODY,
died
in the Melbourne hospital in March 1868. The report in the
newspaper said
he had arrived in the RED JACKET in 1856. There is no trace of
him on
the passenger lists. He left behind him in Whitehaven, Cumberland,
England, a wife and children aged 8,6,4 and 2.

My feeling is that unless he was forced to go to AUS, he wouldn't go and

leave his family with no means of support.

I wonder if the tale that he went on the Red Jacket was a spurious one
to
hide the fact maybe, that he was transported? If he had been
transported,
has the lst any suggestions as to where I should look next - and is
there
any possibily (or likelihood) that if he was tranported, he arrived at

another port (which?) and travelled to Melbourne at the end of his
sentence?

Ann LAVERY.

Other names I am researching: McCARTNEY, CASSON, RITSON, RAY, WISE,
in
CUMBERLAND

HARPER, LAVERY, GRANT, (IRL - DUR)
RAFFLE, CHISHOLM, COOK, GLENDINNING - ENG, DUR
DAVIES, GRIFFITHS, (FLINT< Wales, and DUR.)
COOPER - (BDF)
DALBY - (YKS, LIN)




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