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From: "Irene Schaffer" <>
Subject: Re: [TAS-CON] work in progress - child convicts
Date: Thu, 5 May 2005 08:13:39 +1000
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Dear Rosemary,
I would certainly be interested in your "A cargo
of child convicts" book. There was a project at Port Arthur some years ago
and we researched the boys who came on six of the ships and were sent to
Point Puer. This research was later made into a booklet and disk for
schools. It was done on an apple and I was never able to get a copy
transferred on to a disk I could use, so your book would be of interesting
to me.

Could you also contact me as to your convict who retired to Glenorchy. I am
working on a project for the district of Chigwell and looking for
interesting people who once lived there. Hopefully I will be publishing
short stories of the past and present residents by the end of the year. Its
mostly on Chigwell so if there is anyone else out there who has a story
please contact me.


Irene Schaffer

Email:
Website: http://members.optusnet.com.au/~schafferi
(including Norfolk Island and Van Diemens Land list)



Subject: [TAS-CON] work in progress - child convicts


> Hi List
> >
> >All being well by in a year or two the book "A cargo of child convicts"
> >will be published.
> >It is a factual account of the voyage of the Runnymede from Australia to
> >VDL in 1839/40.
> >
> >That ship bought out 200 convicts: 190 of whom were under 17 and settled
> >most of them at Point Puer.
> >
> >The book will have a list of the convicts etc, a voyage description and a
> >documentation of their time at Point Puer.
> >
> >I chose the subject as my gt gt grandfather was one of the children
> >on that ship. He didn't do amazingly well but farmed his own land and
> >raised a family with his wife (also a convict) near New Norfolk before
> >'retiring' to live near some of his family in Glenorchy.
> >
> >Rosemary
> >
>
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