Why don't I have any convicts?

[regross]

Hi
re Kezia and her arrival in Australia.

you don't mention what regiment Ferdinand served with.

British regiments served for periods of time an all british colonies. It may be that she accompanied the regiemnt to Australia but due to immenent childbirth she was left behind when they embarked to a new destination.

Ferdinand may have died before she was able to gather enough funds to return to him. Certainly the British government would not have paid to reunite them.

Searching out the movements of his regiment may provode some cleus to her unexpained arrival in Australia.

From my own research I have a soldier who came with wife and children and in all records including his comanders diaries, the soldiers own letters, and shipping manifests they are merely:
Mrs ***** and children no initials no first names.
my wife and family
wives and children of the **regiment

This is a good scources for regiments serving in Australia
http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~garter1/tobegin.htm
http://www.diggerhistory.info/pages-conflicts-periods/other/british_army-in-aust.htm
http://members.pcug.org.au/~pdownes/keenan/index.htm

Robyn

[jadewing]

Hi Robyn

Good thought, but Ferdinand was in the Life Guards and as far as I can discover they did not serve overseas at any time during his service (1824 - 1848).  I have a copy of his papers and there is no mention of any OS service.    No mention of wife and children either so maybe they never married?

Jane

[Tracey Joy Kelly]

i was upset as i was always told that my family was very important. so i decided to do my family tree.. and nothing i couldnt find anything.  then i found out that my great great grandfather was a convict.
i dont mean to rub it in. but i truly didnt think i even had one.

anyways i went to a relatives house today. our first meeting (because i had found her family while doing the family tree)  and she showed me some papers that she had in an old box, and it turns out that my great great great great grandfather was a convict from the first fleet. i am gobsmacked.
now i want to know what he did to get sent over.

the first convict i was talking about was sent over to western australia for stealing a sheep.  would love to know what the other was sent out for.