Author Topic: Benjamin Dunstone convict on the Neptune 1790  (Read 2600 times)

Offline Paul Dunstone

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Re: Benjamin Dunstone convict on the Neptune 1790
« Reply #9 on: Thursday 19 January 17 12:23 GMT (UK) »
Thanks for replying. Its all very interesting to me. Most of my Dunstones are from the Veryan parish but some from Wendron.  I have a Robert who left Cornwall in the 1840s and went to Australia on the 'Java' and James Michael (another ancestor) went to Australia on the 'Cleveland'. I have just discovered the Cornwall OPC and so am now busy validating my information. Paul.

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Re: Benjamin Dunstone convict on the Neptune 1790
« Reply #10 on: Thursday 19 January 17 14:54 GMT (UK) »
The OPC is brilliant, and it helped me to unearth a few useful baptisms and so on. Your Wendron Dunstones may be linked to mine somewhere along the line, as there were quite a few families of that name in the area. The particular family I was researching proved to be quite a challenge as they bounced all over the place. My Benjamin Dunstan (the one I suspect may actually be Benjamin Dunstone John/s) went out to Australia on the 'Cressy' with his wife and several of their children in 1847, and then some of them came back to Cornwall again around mid-1851. Another daughter (my paternal 3x great grandmother) who'd remained in Cornwall, suddenly went off on a ship headed to Port Natal, South Africa (possibly she'd thought it was en route to Australia, possibly not) in 1850, and when it was wrecked on the Bar outside what is now Durban, settled down there, and married a Scots ship's carpenter who had been a crew member on the same ship, a year or two later.