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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Robinson of Lancashire, Liverpool 1805
« on: Saturday 04 August 18 01:25 BST (UK) »
Charlotte told her children that she attended a Government School in Tasmania until she was
13 years old. If she was the illegitimate daughter of two convicts this may have been an Institution where she was required to remain for a set amount of years. If she returned to Port Albert with John in 1852 aged 13... Ivan Frederick Amey's Family history assumes that John Amey's trip to Hobart in 1854 (??) on the"Mary Ann" was to bring Charlotte home to Port Albert.
We put two and two together and ... came up with 1. the timing was right 2. the age was almost right 3. the fact that she states her mother's name at marriage 4. Margaret (Peers) was placed in the Female Factory Nursery at the time. 5. John Amey's journey to Hobart
I went to the Female Factory a few years ago and was told that there were no birth records kept for the children of Convicts and that the children were housed at the Orphan School until age 13.
Congratulations on getting a Baptism Certificate. I see they gave their names as Amey but I don't think they wed. Convicts had to apply for permission and as you know Margaret applied twice but not to John.
Sometimes you just have to make a 'best guess'
The following maybe of interest:
Female Convict Research Centre Inc.
Spring Seminar, Sunday, 28th October 2018
Topic: A Great Blessing? Convict Women and Orphan School Children
Our next seminar explores the links between convict women and orphan school children. Lieutenant-Governor Arthur believed it would be ‘a great blessing’ for the children of convicts to be removed from their parents. He established the Orphan Schools to house and educate them. Children were taken from their convict mothers once they were weaned and sent to the bleak Orphan Schools at New Town. Some were as young as two.
13 years old. If she was the illegitimate daughter of two convicts this may have been an Institution where she was required to remain for a set amount of years. If she returned to Port Albert with John in 1852 aged 13... Ivan Frederick Amey's Family history assumes that John Amey's trip to Hobart in 1854 (??) on the"Mary Ann" was to bring Charlotte home to Port Albert.
We put two and two together and ... came up with 1. the timing was right 2. the age was almost right 3. the fact that she states her mother's name at marriage 4. Margaret (Peers) was placed in the Female Factory Nursery at the time. 5. John Amey's journey to Hobart
I went to the Female Factory a few years ago and was told that there were no birth records kept for the children of Convicts and that the children were housed at the Orphan School until age 13.
Congratulations on getting a Baptism Certificate. I see they gave their names as Amey but I don't think they wed. Convicts had to apply for permission and as you know Margaret applied twice but not to John.
Sometimes you just have to make a 'best guess'
The following maybe of interest:
Female Convict Research Centre Inc.
Spring Seminar, Sunday, 28th October 2018
Topic: A Great Blessing? Convict Women and Orphan School Children
Our next seminar explores the links between convict women and orphan school children. Lieutenant-Governor Arthur believed it would be ‘a great blessing’ for the children of convicts to be removed from their parents. He established the Orphan Schools to house and educate them. Children were taken from their convict mothers once they were weaned and sent to the bleak Orphan Schools at New Town. Some were as young as two.