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I`m wanting any information on James Blackberry born Whitechapel 1822. His fathers name was Thomas, his brothers names being Thomas, George and William. James was transported to Tasmania in 1843 on the ship Forfarshire. This information was taken from his convict records. James` partner was Ann Condon[alias Duffy] also a convict. We think they never married. They settled in the township of Westbury Tasmania. I have found James on the I.G.I but it doesn`t give much information at all. Can anybody help please.

                            Johngirl

Hi, I am too descended from 'James Blackberry' via his daughter Elizabeth Page. I am stumped by this too. I recently found this in a book authored by Lois Nyman, 'The West Tamar People' (1996), p. 69:

"A man who also wished to dissociate himself from his past was Jack Wood, who had come out to the colony as a teenage convict. He was assigned to a settler at Invermay, or 'The Swamp' as it was then called, and worked on a dairy farm. There he married one of the servants. When his sentence had expired he determined to live an entirely new life with a new identity. He moved from where he was known and although he realised that free settlers were adept at sensing if a man had been a convict, changed his name to 'Blackberry' and hoped that his knew life would never be touched by any stigma. In the 1860s he moved to Notley Hills, where he raised his family."

Is the a different person, the same person, an incorrect story?