Skeletons in the closet anyone?

[Annie65115]

a convict who married a widow in Adelaide then when she passed on married her daughter ( his step-daughter) .

I've got similar (though not a convict, or at least not a convited one!) - married his dead wife's daughter. This is complicated by the fact that the "original" marriage was actually bigamous, he having deserted wife no.1 and the children, who subsequently went to Canada as Barnardo's boys.

[coombs]

I found my first convict in my family, Edward Childs, my 4xgreat grans brother. He was sent to Australia in 1838 for fighting in a pub and stabbing someone in the thigh. Edward was arguing with his father when the 3rd party stepped in and stood up for the dad and bit off more than he could chew.

Another one to add to my list of ancestor siblings who went abroad.

[Lisajb]

Frederick Barnett, who, in 1859, was sentenced to 6 months hard labour for "breaking into a warehouse and stealing therein."

Still, rather that than Thomas Robbins on the same page of the same register who got 12 months hard labour for assault with intent carnally to know a girl under 10 years of age