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From: Bevan & Jennie Carter <>
Subject: Re: TAYLOR
Date: Wed, 01 Dec 1999 21:42:20 +0800

At 09:20 1/12/99 +1300, you wrote:
>Dear listers,
>My main family of research at the moment is TAYLOR - which is such a
>very popular surname that I am in despair of ever getting beyond 1780
>which is when Edward TAYLOR was born - possibly in London possibly in
>Essex according to family myth !
>Edward TAYLOR was a shoemaker in Surrey and blotted his copy book to the
>point where he was transported to Australia in 1815.
>Paddy Taylor.
>
Convicts were usually tried close to where they were arrested. Often there
are accounts in the local newspaper and sometimes information about their
origin.

One of the convicts connected with my tree gave a false name [WHITE] when he
was arrested aged 18. When he married my convict's [Robert CARTER] eldest
daughter he used his real name [LYON] as a middle name and all his children
were named LYON. We took a long time tracing the descendants because we
were looking for WHITE. When we had an advertised family get together 20
years ago, a LYON turned up claiming to be a descendant of Robert CARTER and
so the mystery was solved.

Bevan CARTER
Bassendean Western Australia
researching CARTER in Shouldham (late 1700s) and OXBOROUGH in Ashill, Necton
and Gooderstone.

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