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Northamptonshire / Re: Transcript of St Sepulchres Church Graveyard, Northampton
« on: Sunday 04 November 12 13:00 GMT (UK)  »
Hi, I see that you have transcripts of the headstones in St. Sepulchres, Northampton and wonder if you have found a William or a Joseph Brown?

Cheers,
Jen.

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Australia / Re: Ephraim FRANCIS
« on: Friday 24 December 10 15:36 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks so much for your help, Debra.  I was going cross-eyed trying to pick out Ephraim, who was my 3xgreat grandfather, and it all adds to the picture of him.

Merry Christmas and a Happy 2011.

Jen.

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Australia / Re: Ephraim FRANCIS
« on: Friday 24 December 10 10:06 GMT (UK)  »
Many thanks, Cando and Debra, for taking the time to find Ephraim for me.

You're right, Debra, I should have said that he was given his Ticket-to-Leave in 1844.

Can you help me on the page 4 entry though, please, as I'm having trouble spotting him!

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Australia / Ephraim FRANCIS
« on: Thursday 23 December 10 15:15 GMT (UK)  »
Ephraim Francis was an English convict, pardoned in February 1844.  He sailed from Launceston in Tasmania in March 1852 to Melbourne, Vic. on the ship Tamar and died in Melbourne, aged 38, in the same year.  I'm trying to find out where he was and what he was doing between 1844 and 1852.  Any ideas, please?

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Australia / Re: Samuel FRANCIS
« on: Thursday 02 September 10 10:27 BST (UK)  »
I've now discovered that the source of the info. that Samuel Francis left Sydney in 1827 on the Elizabeth was the Quarterly Return of Persons that have been Convicts who have cleared out of the Port of Sydney, New South Wales.  I've found this web page but I don't think I can get into a passenger list.  Any ideas?

Jen.

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Australia / Re: Samuel FRANCIS
« on: Thursday 02 September 10 10:03 BST (UK)  »
... and P.S.  No, I can't find him or Sarah on the 1841 Census.

Jen.

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Australia / Re: Samuel FRANCIS
« on: Thursday 02 September 10 10:02 BST (UK)  »
Many thanks, everyone, for the info. about the Elizabeth.

In answer to tropicalj, I'm having trouble finding Samuel Francis's parents.  He was living in Langtoft, Lincolnshire when he was sentenced (and the rest of his family continued to live there right through to my grandmother) but on his Ticket-to-Leave it states that he was born in Suffolk in 1778.  There are a lot of Francises in Hepworth, Suffolk but I've not been able to pin him down yet. 

I can't find a marriage entry to Sarah either to see if he married in Suffolk or Lincolnshire.

Jen.

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Australia / Re: Samuel Francis
« on: Wednesday 01 September 10 17:06 BST (UK)  »
Many thanks, judb.  I do have the info. on his transportation but I'm grateful to you for taking the trouble to look him up.

You're quite right, it WAS him and his wife, Sarah, who passed on counterfeit money and were jailed for a year.  They had 6 children, aged between 2 and 10 so I wonder what became of them whilst their parents were in jail?  Poor little souls !!

Mind you, one of these 'poor little souls', Ephraim, followed in his parents' footsteps and was sent to Tasmania in 1836 for 21 years for stealing chickens and rabbits.

I don't know whether to be proud or ashamed of having TWO convicts in the family!

Jen.

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Australia / Samuel FRANCIS
« on: Wednesday 01 September 10 15:39 BST (UK)  »
Samuel Francis was transported from Lincolnshire, England on the Hindostan in 1820 for 7 years.  A note on 'OneSearch' says that "he left Sydney on the ship Elizabeth in 1827 bound for England.  Free by servitude".

Can anyone thrown any further light on this, such as where he landed in England?

Many thanks,

Jen.

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