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I think John Bemrose went to tasmania after he was shipped to nsw, he wanted a conditional pardon. This meant that he couldn't return to britian. I haven't found out any more than that, or what happened to him

Carol I have taken this small passage fron a website about the Bemrose family, I have sent you the website address in a personal message. ''2. John BEMROSE the younger (1801-) was the second child of John junior and Ann (née LUCAS) BEMROSE. He was literate and worked as a labourer in Sloothby, probably for his father and with his brother, Lucas. In 1823, John BEMROSE the younger married Diana DUNNINGTON of Authorpe and they had three children, Ellen BEMROSE (1825-), Elijah John BEMROSE (1835-) and another son, name unknown. Life must have been relatively peaceful for John BEMROSE the younger until that fateful day when he stole a waist-coat.. For this offence, he was tried and found guilty at Lindsay Quarter Sessions in July 1836 and given the harsh sentence of deportation for seven years. He sailed from London a year later to New South Wales, Australia on the barque Lloyds 2, along with another 199 convicts. Diana (née DUNNINGTON) BEMROSE, his wife, did not remarry and died in Willoughby aged sixty-five years old.'' Georgina.

I have discovered that an ancestor was convicted of theft and sentenced to deportation for 7 years. I have found a transcript of his trial in 1837 and also details of the ship he travelled on. I can find no record of him back in this country, so have searched the online archives for NSW and there is no sign of him in the 1841 census or on any of the convict indexes. There is nobody with the same surname even. The name I am looking for is John BEMROSE b. about 1801 in Norfolk. Convicted at Lindsey Quarter Sessions 05/07/1836 Sailed on the Lloyds (2) on 29 03 1837 and arrived NSW 17 07 1837 It is possible that he may have died on the journey, but I dont know where to look for any records of this kind. Any help would be most appreciated. Thank you

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