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From: Brenda Paternoster< >
Subject: Re: JOHN ROGERS
Date: Sat, 1 May 99 22:30:05

>In article <>, Grahame James
><> writes
>>I am trying to find a birth for my fourth great Grandfather John
>Rogers
>>who was a convict. He was born about 1761 London England.Then in 1781
>>was sent to the Thames Hulk Censor, age 23yrs whence he embarked on
>the
>>Neptune tra

I believe these hulks were quite common on the Rivers Thames and Medway in the
18th and 19th centuries. Charles Dickens wrote about one in *Great
Expectations* - the convict/benefactor of young Pip (can't recall his name just
this minute) came off a convict hulk.

Brenda in Kent
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