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[Christopher]

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Hello Charlotte,
What happened to your message

Christopher

[charlotteCH]

Went west, Christopher, and has been archived by A2A I'm told.   

charlotte

[jamielee]

Hi Martin,
Hope you may be able to help me with my question,on checking my grandparent that came over to Melbourne Australia from Tasmania, I believe he was a convict from Scotland.
He arrived in Tasmania about 1821 On the ship Claudine ,he was convicted in Aberdene .
On his death certificate it states he was born in Dundee and his mother,s name was Sophia but there is no other information.
Hoping for miracles
Jamielee.

[Martin Briscoe]

Hi Martin,
Hope you may be able to help me with my question,on checking my grandparent that came over to Melbourne Australia from Tasmania, I believe he was a convict from Scotland.
He arrived in Tasmania about 1821 On the ship Claudine ,he was convicted in Aberdene .
On his death certificate it states he was born in Dundee and his mother,s name was Sophia but there is no other information.
Hoping for miracles
Jamielee.

Sorry but I am not in that part of Scotland and don't have any Scottish ancestors so I have not done any work on Scottish families.

Best to ask in this forum for Dundee and the Aberdeenshire one for Aberdeen, also the "Emigrants to Australia" forum.

If he was a convict then hopefully there will be records somewhere.

The Aberdeen and North East Scotland Family History Society have a good Research Centre and might be able to give you some advice on what records are available.

http://www.anesfhs.org.uk/

Martin Briscoe

[breaky]

Jamielee,

The Aberdeen Journal (including the years you might need) is one of the titles in the British Newspapers section of the Gale digital collection - which has a week's free trial at the moment.

http://access.gale.com/gdctrial/login.html

Hope this might help.