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From: "Sue & Chris Beasley" <>
Subject: Re: [AUS-Tas] Norfolk Is.- Tasmania
Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2005 06:50:28 +1000
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Thankyou Joan
You are right on the button I was unable to get a definitive reply from the
list so the Archives confirmed yesterday that the ship in question was
indeed Pestongee Bomangee Its name alone is also the source of some debate
but general consensus is that it is spelt with a double J You have an
arrival date of May I take it to mean 1847 for your man Archives have given
me Apr 8 1847 in Hobart but still think this requires further investigation
probably via the Gazette the newspaper or as you suggest and will have a
look at my first opportunity
Just as an aside the ships name seems to have derived from an Indian owner
or partowner who was a school chum of Rudyard Kipling and is mentioned in
one of his books
My thanks to Gaylene Kesa Jenny Meryl Cara for their interest
cheers Chris in Tremont
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joan Holloway" <>
To: "Sue & Chris Beasley" <>;
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Sent: Friday, September 02, 2005 11:56 PM
Subject: Re: [AUS-Tas] Norfolk Is.- Tasmania


> Hello Chris
> You may have heard from others by now. I dont know if this helps, but I
> have a couple of convicts who arrived (separately) in Hobart in what
> sounds a similar way to your chap. They were sent to Norfolk in 1846
> aboard the Mayda and the China. Luckily for them, Norfolk was starting to
> be phased out as a prison around this time, and they were reshipped to
> Tasmania in 1847, one on the Pestongee Bomanjee and the other on the Tory.
>
> As I recall it was pretty confusing sorting all this out via the convict
> records, since each chap was listed under two ships and consequently it
> looked at first as if there were four convicts (two of each name) and not
> two. It was made more confusing by the fact that the P. Bomanjee came from
> England with convicts to Maria Island (arriving Feb 1847) and so it didn't
> seem the correct ship until I found it appears to have sailed across to
> Norfolk to ferry convicts over to Hobart (arriving May 1846).
>
> I'd suggest (in the light of the above) that if you have copies from the
> Tasmanian Archives of the convict records for your man as arriving on one
> ship only, it might be only half the story of his transportation. Once
> you're sure of the ships, The Log of Logs or similar might have additional
> details about the ships & voyages. As another suggestion, material about
> the closure of the Norfolk Is penal settlement might fill in a few little
> gaps.
>
> Best wishes
>
> Joan
>
>

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