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From: "Helen Langdon" <>
Subject: Re: [AUS-Tas] Calcutta - Sorrento
Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2001 22:52:43 +1000


Hi David,

The book "Convicts Unbound, The Story of the Calcutta
Convicts and their Settlement in Australia"
by Marjorie Tipping - ISBN 0-670-90068-0

NICHOLLS William, pages 67,97,123.153,274,330
NICHOLLS Maria, (daughter of settler William Nicholls)
pages 123,298,330

Helen
Kenthurst, Sydney


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> From: David Roberts <>
> To:
> Subject: Re: [AUS-Tas] Calcutta - Sorrento
> Date: Saturday, 31 March 2001 23:29
>
> Hi Irene,
>
> I had settler/Convict Supervisor Wm Nicols (GGGGG) and his family (including
> daughter Maria who later married John Pearsall (GGGG)) on the Ocean to
> Sorrento and convict John Pearsall on the Calcutta.
>
> I would like to get some more information on their transfer to the Derwent
> on the Lady Nelson and Ocean when the settlement near the current Sorrento
> was closed down.
>
> Are you aware who travelled on what.? My presumption is that the settlers
> went on the Ocean and the convicts on the Lady Nelson, but it is only a
> presumption. Would you know the answers or know where/how I could get them
> please?
>
> Many thanks
>
> David Roberts
>

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