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From: "Irene Schaffer" <>
Subject: Re: [AUS-Tas] Convict indent query
Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2003 13:58:32 +1100
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Dear Douglas

Yes to both of you questions, for Tasmania anyway.

Irene


> Hello all,
>
> I think I need to kick myself.
>
> I've been poring over a convict indent for a Stephen BURBERRY who was
> transported for Life to VDL in 1841. I've been wrestling with the
> identification of this Stephen, and the indent contained some information
> that apepared hopelessly conflicting.
>
> In the next of kin column, it says "W. Ann 4 S Charlotte, Esther, Jane,
> Mary At Native Place". Anyway, the "4 S" looks like "4 S'", but it was
this
> that has thrown me. Other entries in the column appear to use similar
> notation, with "W" for wife, and also "B" for male names and "S" for
female
> names.
>
> Now I know this might seem like a stupid question, but in the next of kin
> columns for these convict indents, does "B" mean brother and "S" mean
sister?
>
> In other words, have I been wasting my time trying to find daughters born
> to this Stephen when I should have been looking for his sisters???
>
> Douglas
>
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