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From: "Malcolm Ward" <>
Subject: RE: [AUS-Tas] convict record translations
Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2006 22:10:20 +1100
In-Reply-To: <A6B4C766-7C47-11DA-9404-000D934BB05C@iinet.net.au>


Hi Barbara

I suggest "RL" could mean "read a little" "B" means "both" (ie read and write)
and BL could mean "both a little".

Ansons could be Ansons Bay, on the NE coast of Tasmania, but I don't know if
there was a Probation Station there.

Susan Hood's book "Transcribing Tasmanian Convict Records" (2003) ISBN 0 9579394
3 4 and Maree Ring's Tasmanian Convict Record Abbreviations page at this List's
web site
http://www.rootsweb.com/~austashs/convicts/conabbrev.html
are good resources.

Cheers

Malcolm Ward
Hobart Tas


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rod Mann [mailto:]
> Sent: Tuesday, 3 January 2006 9:57 PM
> To:
> Subject: [AUS-Tas] convict record translations
>
> Can someone please help me translate an entry on an Indent of a Female
> Convict (CON15). Under the heading Read or Write, there appears to be
> an entry R - Other entries in the same column on the page appear to
> read RL and B and perhaps BL. What do they all mean?
>
> Also from a Conduct Record of female convict (CON41), can someone
> please explain whether a 3rd class probation is the most or least
> restricted of the 3 classes of pass.
> And finally where is Ansons or Ansond? - (Station of Gang).
>
> Thanks
> Barbara, Vic
>
>
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> > #1 ALEXANDER JOHN SHEERIN/SHEAREN/SHE ["Suzanne"
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> > #2 Query re previously married brides ["Lyn" <>]
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> > From: "Suzanne" <>
> > Date: 2 January 2006 5:51:09 PM
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> > Subject: ALEXANDER JOHN SHEERIN/SHEAREN/SHEEEREN
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> > ALEXANDER born 1856 Ireland or Scotland (he couldn't decide which)
> > Parents James and Martha Sheerin
> > married twice
> > Sarah Burgess
> > Sarah Hall
> > arrived Australia 1865 in Brisbane
> > lived NSW, Victoria, and Tasmania
> > deserted his wife in 1905
> > disapeared
> > Lived in Queenstown for a while
> > drank to excess and got into money troubles in Tasmania
> > with creditors
> > Can someone help me find him??
> > suzanne
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> > ______________________________
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> > From: "Lyn" <>
> > Date: 2 January 2006 8:58:23 PM
> > To:
> > Subject: Query re previously married brides
> >
> >
> > G'day All
> > If a bride was previously married what name did/or should she use on
> > her marriage certificate?
> > Her previous married name or her maiden name?
> > Has there ever been a hard and fast rule to this, as I have an
> > ancestor that married [Sydney 1809] under her maiden name when she had
> > been married previously. She was a convict and I have read that most
> > female convicts were tried and sentenced under their maiden names. Any
> > truth in this?
> > Would appreciate any advice
> > cheers
> > Lyn
> > VIC
> >
> >
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