Hi Dawn
Re - Mailing list - as given to you from above
Tasmanian Convicts
http://www.rootsweb.com/~austashs/convicts/con_main.htmClick onto Mailing List and follow the directions - They give you an email address where you send an email without a subject name, just the word subscribe in the body of the email, and that's it.
You will be asked to chose if you want 'Mail Mode' which is each email arriving at a time or 'Digest Mode', where they all arrive in one lot. I have tried both. There is no cost.
When you want to stop, just do the same again but this time put the word Unsubscribe in the body of the email - and they remove you.
I go in and out of it - depending what I want to ask.
Re - the crosses - we did not get any
The day we were there, we went on a different trip to the one where they disembark and go onto the island itself - The ferry we were on just came alongside and you could see all the crosses, and they did a talk on it. It was too late in the day for the other trip. I have to tell you I was too tired anyway...
That day we had gone to Cornelian Bay Cemetery - left there and raced off and did the 'walk over the trees' thing,(forget where it was) it goes up to about 11 stories and then cantilevers over the river (it swayed too much) then on to Hawkesnest, that's where they had vicious dogs lined up to stop prisoners escaping in their day from Port Arthur & now they have fake ones (it didn't stop them all, they swam around to the beach) - then late afternoon we did the tour of Port Arthur.
The entrance to the Port did not impress me in that it was run like a franchise place with gimmicky things, and too many people - outside it was different - Hauntingly Beautiful in itself, and the surrounds lovely - huge expanses of grassed areas, but isolated - the choice for escape was the deep bush behind you or the ocean in front...
We went back to our motel at Hawkesnest for a shower and left to find a restaurant, dying for a meal, and they were all closed!! Lucky I had a tin of baked beans!!
Going to Tassie is like going back in time - we drove down the West Coast and went for hours without seeing a car - forget about a house or shop!
The East Coast was different - there is something about the place though
My convicts were Irish - William Rourke, stole during the potato famine, & Rose and Mary Quinn (during time of famine also) & infant dau of Mary also called Rose (Rose who was 20 died on board ship
) - all this for having a stolen petticoat in their possession! Mary left behind three other children - never to see them again.
I believe in 'callings' I hope you get there.
They did it hard in those days...
but their legacy they left is that we have it good!
Cheers Maureen
