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You might want to check out the free database on The Wuerttemberg Emigration
Index, Volume 1, if you have German ancestry.

~Michelle

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Ancestry HomeTown Daily
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December 18, 1997

In this issue:
- Database of the Day
- Today's New Maps
- Shaking Your Family Tree - Transported Felons Hang on Family Trees
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Database of the Day (Free for 10 Days!)
The Wuerttemberg Emigration Index, Volume 1

The Wuerttemberg Emigration Index is a seven volume work that
represents the thousands of German and Prussian immigrants to
the United States that made application to emigrate at Wuerttemberg,
Germany. This collection, filmed at Ludwigsburg, contains the
names of approximately 60,000 persons who made application to
leave Germany from the late eighteenth century to 1900. The
information supplied on each person includes: name, date and
place of birth, residence at time of application and application
date, and microfilm number.

Bibliography - Schenk, Trudy, Ruth Froelke, Inge Bork, The
Wuerttemberg Emigration Index, Salt Lake City: Ancestry
Incorporated, 1986- .

To search this database, go to:
http://www.ancestry.com/ancestry/search.asp
OR
http://www.ancestry.com/ancestry/recent.asp
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Today's New Maps

Ancestry is currently adding 3 maps every working day to their
web site. One of the three maps is available for free for 10 days,
after which it will be moved to the subscription area. The remaining
two maps are available in the subscription area.

Today's FREE map is:
- California, Texas, New Mexico 1763-1802

Today's maps available in the Subscription Area:
- Imperial Forums
- Battle of Steinkirk 1692

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Shaking Your Family Tree
By Myra Vanderpool Gormley, C.G.

Transported Felons Hang On Family Trees

English convicts form the largest class of identifiable immigrants to
America. Yet many genealogists continue to search for links to
nobility and the landed gentry when so many of our ancestors,
especially those from Virginia and Maryland, arrived in this country
as transported felons.

In England a formal system was introduced in 1655 which enabled
death sentences to be reduced to transportation overseas, and two
years later justices of the peace were empowered to transport
vagrants. Many crimes carried the death penalty, but today many
of those crimes would be considered misdemeanors.

After 1655 and before the Transportation Act of 1718 some prisoners
of each circuit court were selected to be reprieved from the gallows
on condition of their accepting a term of transportation. Each formal
pardon, signed by the king, was enrolled in the great series of patent
rolls that are preserved in the Public Record Office in London as
Class C 66. No doubt some of our immigrant ancestors narrowly
escaped the gallows.

Nearly 400 convict ships carrying 50,000 men, women and children
left British waters bound for the American colonies where their
human cargoes were sold. Most of these ships frequented the
ports of Chesapeake Bay, where for almost 100 years, facilities
had been developed for the reception and sale of convicted
prisoners. The tidal wave of involuntary laborers became known
as ``His Majesty's Seven-Year Passengers.''

Of the more than 300 convict ships identified as having crossed
the Atlantic from the ports of London, Bristol, Liverpool and
Bideford between 1716 and 1776, only a dozen or so were destined
for the West Indies or the Carolinas, and then only before 1730.
Thereafter Maryland or Virginia were the invariable destinations.
A pattern quickly developed whereby the principal English
prisons were cleared on a regular basis two or three times a year
at times to suit maritime requirements and demands of tobacco
exporters in the colonies.

The British treasury, which became responsible after 1718 for
payments to contractors in respect of the transportation of felons
from the London, Middlesex, Home Circuit and Buckinghamshire
prisons, maintained meticulous records of the numbers and names
of those so disposed of and very often of the ships involved. The
records of Quarter Session and Borough Courts, which exercised
the power in every county to transport convicted offenders, are
all preserved in London and in some 50 county or borough record
offices in England. However few of the surviving county Quarter
Sessions have been calendared, transcribed or indexed.

The latest work of Peter Wilson Coldham, author of several books
pertaining to English emigrants in bondage, is called ``The King's
Passengers to Maryland and Virginia,'' The 433-page tome contains
names of some 25,000 passengers. They are shown alphabetically
by surname and in the order of the English cities or counties where
they were condemned. Additionally a comprehensive list of convict
`runaways'' has been compiled from contemporary Maryland,
Virginia and Pennsylvania newspapers and cross-referenced to
the passenger lists.

A separate section is devoted to the later careers in the colonies
of 20 known felons from England, including Catherine Tyrwhitt
or Territt as the name is also spelled, who was charged with stealing
jewelry. She was sentenced to be transported for seven years and
may be one of the few Maryland convicts who could boast of being
of royal descent.

``The King's Passengers to Maryland & Virginia,'' is ($39 postpaid)
from Family Line Publications, Rear 63 E. Main St., Westminster,
MD 21157. (800) 876-6103.
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In addition to her syndicated weekly column in the Los Angeles
Times, Myra Vanderpool Gormley and Julie Case are co-editors
of Missing Links, a free weekly genealogy ezine. To subscribe,
send your request to:
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