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Australia Lookups completed / Re: Lord Melville Convict Ship to Australia 1816
« on: Tuesday 18 February 20 08:24 GMT (UK)  »
Hello Dennis (teddy3737)

Lovely to hear from you. About twenty-five years ago. when several people in Australia, were working on the Bashams, one of us contacted the SA branch of the family and we were told we weren't exactly welcome. We respected that. This was long after it had become "fashionable" to have convict relatives.

This was pre-Internet day. But young people grow up and, you have to admit, genealogical detective work can be thrilling. So younger generations join in, whatever their parents wish or don't wish.

Tasmanian Immigrants List "B" is not a source document. Neither is Trove nor HTG. If you slog, as many of us have, you will find no reference to this Sarah Ashby. We have trawled AJCP till kingdom come. And the Hammersmith parish records. I do not know Erin O'Donnell. I wish I did because the other half of me is Irish. Please link this to him if you have his contact details. It's my belief that Sarah (not "Mary") was indeed Sarah but I do not believe it's yet proved she was a Sarah Ashby. I do believe Xenophon was known as "John", but I have no evidence.

I have suspicions about who exactly Sarah was.

Rhonda


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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: help with handwriting
« on: Wednesday 11 December 19 07:35 GMT (UK)  »
Definitely M. S. Helm for me. Compare the 'e' with 'After', 'Witness' and various others; and the 'm' with 'journeyman'.

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The Lighter Side / Re: I spent all my life as a boring clerk...
« on: Sunday 27 October 19 15:08 GMT (UK)  »
I am new, but thank you all. In particular Rosie's link to occupations. What is a "Glory-hole tender"? It takes me back fifty years...

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The Lighter Side / Re: I spent all my life as a boring clerk...
« on: Sunday 27 October 19 13:31 GMT (UK)  »
Thank you, davidft. I hadn't come across that one but there was another, extraordinarily vulgar, definition a couple of years ago which I can no longer find. Perhaps it's been removed. I think it's safe to say neither definition would have been current as an "occupation" in rural Northamptonshire in 1777.
Rhonda

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The Lighter Side / Re: I spent all my life as a boring clerk...
« on: Sunday 27 October 19 12:45 GMT (UK)  »
Aha. I wondered why I couldn't find him on MyHeritage. But they don't give anything for his occupation: perhaps too difficult even for question marks.

I've also got a John Iliff who appears on the 1777 Militia List for Crick in Northamptonshire. He was a "hog gobler". I'm not sure I'd want to be one of them, even though nobody's ever been able to tell me what hog goblers did.

Rhonda

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The Lighter Side / I spent all my life as a boring clerk...
« on: Sunday 27 October 19 11:10 GMT (UK)  »
Frederick G Baker, of Leicester, appears on the 1939 England and Wales Register. He was a Hub Slagger Boots Nellie. Why couldn't I be one of them?
Rhonda

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Australia Lookups completed / Re: Lord Melville Convict Ship to Australia 1816
« on: Friday 25 October 19 14:16 BST (UK)  »
I forgot to say: Russell Kelly's excellent book was still available earlier this year.
Rhonda

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Australia Lookups completed / Re: Lord Melville Convict Ship to Australia 1816
« on: Friday 25 October 19 13:58 BST (UK)  »
Hello All too
I have a substantial body of copies of documents and the like from going on thirty years' research.
SamGray implies that there is misleading stuff out there and he's quite right. There seems to be no record other than Rev John Youl's register entry ("Murdr'd") that John Basham (not Xenophon) was killed by anything other than a mistake. If, by the "Monster", people imply Jefferies, it has to be said he wasn't even at the scene.
I will happily help with copies of docs and stuff I've learned if people wish to contact me.
And I have two questions too, even after all these years:
Can someone give me the reference to the original authority that Xenophon's wife was a Sarah Ashby?
Can someone tell me from where "E.F." (Eustace FitzGerald, better known as James Dally) gets his information that Xenophon was "popularly known as John"? It sounds quite sensible to me but did Dally find another source I haven't?
Rhonda

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