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Suffolk Convict Wives
« on: Sunday 08 June 08 17:01 BST (UK) »
I have a convict John Redgen who i know was transported to Australia in 1833. His wife also appears there but i'm trying to find out how/when she got there. Any suggestions?
Essex: Barton, Bright, Adams, Gosling, White, Marchant, Nunn, Pulfer, Robinson, Rycroft, Simons, Skeet
Dorset: Allen, Stanley
Kent: Overill
Suffolk: Bush, Clark, Cook, Fenning, Garwood, Raindle/Rendall, Ridgeon, Scott
Somerset: Johnson
Yorkshire: Waddington, Douglas, Mullet
Wiltshire: Griffin, Loxley, Beer, Cromwell, Fillis, Gauntlett, Haywood, Naish, Pulling

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Re: Suffolk Convict Wives
« Reply #1 on: Sunday 08 June 08 17:38 BST (UK) »
It might be worth looking in the parish poor law records. 

It was cheaper to pay for a wife's (& children) passage to join her husband in Australia than to pay parish relief for several years.

It's possible that she or her relatives had enough money to pay for her passage.
Middx - VAUS, ROBERTS, EVERSFIELD, INMAN, STAR, HOLBECK, WYATT, BICKFORD, SMITH, REDWOOD
Hants - SMALL, HAMMERTON, GRIST, FRYER, TRODD, DAGWELL, PARKER, WOODFORD, CROUTEAR, BECK, BENDELL, KEEPING, HARDING, BULL
Kent - BAYLY, BORER, MITCHELL, PLANE, VERNON, FARRANCE, CHAPMAN, MEDHURST, LOMAX, WYATT, IDEN
Devon - TOPE, BICKFORD, FOSTER
YKS - QUIRK, McGUIRE, BENN
Nott/Derbs - SLACK
Herts - BARNES
L'pool- PLUMBE
 All UK census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk

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Re: Suffolk Convict Wives
« Reply #2 on: Sunday 08 June 08 18:54 BST (UK) »
thanks i'll have a look
Essex: Barton, Bright, Adams, Gosling, White, Marchant, Nunn, Pulfer, Robinson, Rycroft, Simons, Skeet
Dorset: Allen, Stanley
Kent: Overill
Suffolk: Bush, Clark, Cook, Fenning, Garwood, Raindle/Rendall, Ridgeon, Scott
Somerset: Johnson
Yorkshire: Waddington, Douglas, Mullet
Wiltshire: Griffin, Loxley, Beer, Cromwell, Fillis, Gauntlett, Haywood, Naish, Pulling
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