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From: "Carmel M Reynen" <>
Subject: Re: [AVG] HOLLAND family interest
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 14:01:17 +1000
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Rob
So rude of those ancestors etc who for not keeping a diary of all their
movements. At least I would kill for one!
Just a thought didn't exconvicts have to advertise that they were leaving
the colony or was that Aust as a whole?

Carmel
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From: "the Fords" <>
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Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2006 1:06 PM
Subject: Re: [AVG] HOLLAND family interest


> Hi Carmel,
> Many thanks for your time and effort in reply. It is a huge
> jump in faith that the Mrs HOLLAND and two children on the Clarence are
> our
> disappearing Louisa. There is no trace of Louisa between 1836 when she
> married James HOLLAND and the family appearing in 1855 in Castlemaine &
> Trentham.Certainly there is no trace of James that we can identify after
> the
> marriage. A search of BDMs found his probable death at about the right age
> in 1844 in Hobart. So it appears that Louisa became a widow in 1844.She
> had
> not earn her freedom until Feb 1846 so she was stuck in Tasmania. We've
> searched the passenger lists and found no trace of her and the family
> leaving in the 1850s to go to Vic.
>
> It wasn't until I had a search of the Tas Archives after they did an
> update?? that I found a Mrs HOLLAND and two children leaving in the March
> 1846, less than a month after getting that written confirmation of her
> freedom.If she needed a 'passport' to improving her life/prospects then I
> assumed that she would have to wait til she got the pardon and then take
> the
> first available ship out of there.There are no ages on the passenger list
> so
> all I can do is assume (dangerous in family history research) that it is
> her
> so that I have somewhere else to research hoping that proof is found
> backwards.
>
> We have no family records that indicate there was another man in Louisa's
> life.It is feasible that she followed or went with another man who was
> drawn
> to the area by gold.So I have no male name to check against to see if he
> was
> on the Clarence with her or even in Hobart at the time. All I can do is
> search for her between 1846 and 1855 and see if she is appearing with her
> family and another man.There may be a trail between Port Albert and the
> towns north west of Melbourne.
>
> Thanks again.Take Care
> Rob
>
>
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