Forum: Black Sheep

My wife has an ancestor, Thomas Tutbury, who was convicted of Grand Larceny at Nottingham Assizes in January 1824. He was sentenced to transportation for 7 years and sent to the prison hulk "Ganymede" at Woolwich. In 1826 he was transferred to the "Captivity" moored at Devenport. In 1828, having...

Hi Have any of you ever had people who cannot accept skeletons in family history at all? Ie, even if you have the most conclusive proof, ie a suicide inquest or death cert, affair scandal, murder, prisoner ancestor on a census, relatives and even other people cannot accept such truth and will...

For a number of years I've been researching a double execution in my family history. John Robert Miller(1871) and John Miller(1840 ish). They were Uncle and Nephew of Cullercoats in Northumberland. I'm trying to find any court records of the trial etc. Its been so hard to search their family tree...

The South African Commercial Advertiser for 31 August 1842 and for 3, 7 and 10 September 1842 carried reports of the wreck of the convict ship Waterloo. If anyone has found reference to an ancestor being transported in 1842, but has found no reference to them in Australia, they may be on this list....

Two new Ancestry databases which may be of interest to anyone with transportees in the family . . . 'UK Royal Navy Medical Journals, 1817-1857' 'This collection includes 671 volumes, each from a single ship and covering a particular time period. The majority are convict ships bound for...

Is there any way of finding out what happened to a convict after they arrived in Australia ? Charles Love was convicted of burglary in Warwickshire Assizes in 1861 and sentenced to 10 yrs. He was sent to Western Australia in 1862 on The York. Not sure where to start looking so see what happened...

My ancestor, Charles Alfred MARTIN (alias Carlos MARTINI) born 1824 in Frome Somerset, was judged to be insane and detained in Broadmoor for 10 years. http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/browse.jsp?id=t18691122-76&div=t18691122-76&terms=Surrey|cases#highlight Charles was released into the care of...

I have a William Harvey White born 1851 Plaitford, wiltshire England He enlisted 1870 Have a document enclosed with his Attestation Papers saying he was charged with theft. Hence sent to court. Does anyone know how I can search for prison records?? He was most certainly a shady...

I have 2 black sheep in my tree. One was sentenced along with his accomplce to serve a significant amount hard-time and the other did 1 year at hard labour. I have read newspaper aricles on both cases. I have traced the families of both convicts and their lives both before and after...

Would anyone care to claim any of these as their own? http:// tinyurl.com/7ck2t9j (Article in the Daily Mail - in case you are worried about the link.) Maggie

I have an ancestor from Pembrokeshire who was transported to Australia in 1832 for life. He was tried and convicted at Monmouth Assizes. He received a conditional pardon in 1846, but could not return to the UK. In 1849 he and his wife sailed from Sydney to San Francisco and the last mention I...

I wonder if someone could do me a favour, you see I promised my Aunts that I would not look for a Birth Certificate, but I am getting so curious as to what my Nanny put down for the Fathers name.:ninja: :whistling: So I thought you may be able to help me on here, as then I have not actually...

Good afternoon everyone Could anyone tell me if there are any court or prison records for the 1920's and 30's available on line or elsewhere in the public domain or would records for this period still be classified as under 100 years old? Apologies if the information is already on the forum!...

On 3 Nov 1846, Thomas Summerlin (retired blacksmith) was acquited of a charge of "Assault with an unnatural intent" by Bedfordshire Assizes. It is with a certain amount of trepidation that I ask what might he have been up to? :confused5:

Not all black sheep were convicts, it was very common to send remittance men and women often with their families overseas to get them away from the area where they had disgraced themselves. A place of residence was bought and regular sums of money deposited in the bank to keep them away....

First of all some background - my 2X gt-Grandfather was John Jory born 1828 in St. Allen, Cornwall. He was the youngest of 4 children born to Jane Jory. Each child of Jane had a different father and she never married. Her 1st child was named Mary Perry Jory. According to her baptism, which...

My great Grand Mothers Sister appears on Birmingham Pub Black List 1901. Because of this sad event, I now have photo of her taken by the Police and some insight to what was happening to the family in 1900s.

I'm looking into the possibility of having a relative sent to Tasmania about 1844, Thomas Mackinder and Ann Baldock imprisoned around the same time, guessing in Lincolnshire. I there anyway of finding out finer details?:) Not sure what would have happened to the children....maybe a work house?

H,i we are looking for some help in this field, the name is George Hillier 1797,there are 4 G.H. two if them have died around the 1846/8 time and two of them were Transported one in Dec/1850 and one in March/ 1850, one of these G.H is ours and we cannot find which one, we know that he was in Honey...