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From: "A. Day" <>
Subject: Re: [Lon] (UK) GOVERNMENT LETTERS REGARDING CONVICTS
Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2005 10:02:20 -0000
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I have been to Kew but felt overwhelmed & didn't get any where
Ann
----- Original Message -----
From: "Judy Lester" <>
To: <>
Sent: Sunday, November 06, 2005 9:24 AM
Subject: Re: [Lon] (UK) GOVERNMENT LETTERS REGARDING CONVICTS


> Peter, most Government papers regarding convicts and their transportation
> are at TNA under the series code HO (= Home Office). There's a useful
online
> Research Guide on this subject, which links to the appropriate catalogue
> entries and will give you some leads for searching.
> http://tinyurl.com/9kzm4
>
> Judy
> London, UK
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Peter Strauss" <>
> > I have been trying to put names to the 3 children (1 M & 2F) Sarah
LYNCHEY
> > (convict) brought with her to Australia on the Mary III which arrived in
> > Sydney in 1835.
> >
> > A correspondent on the Isle of Man where she, and a son Thomas, had been
> > sentenced has found handwritten copies of the letters sent to Whitehall,
> > one of which says that the children's names were noted in the margin.
> >
> > The documents at the Manx Heritage Museum are handwritten copies of
those
> > sent to Whitehall and the clerk has not noted the children's names in
the
> > margin although probably they were on the original.
> >
> > These letters were indexed GL4/96, GL4/53, GL36, and GL 37 in a letter
> > that he sent me recently although his book, "Never to Return" has
> > references without the GL but with a prefix 9191/11/...
> >
> > I have looked at the TNA site but there are so many categories I have no
> > idea where to start. Could SKS give me some pointers?
> >
> > It possible that copies of the original (Whitehall) documents may also
be
> > held somewhere here in Australia and I am trying, so far without success
> > to locate where they may be held.
> >
> > By the way this book, written by Hampton Creer, is very interesting and
he
> > has tried to cover all Manx people who were transported to the Americas
> > and to Australia. Starting with an ancestor in the 1600's, sent to
Jamaica
> > who lived on the same farm near Douglas that he lives on today. It is
> > available from the Manx Heritage Museum and I think all up including
> > postage it was less than AUD40.
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Peter Strauss
> > Melbourne
>
>
>
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