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Member Since: October 2007 Posts: 44 Send Message	Debra	Report	25 Nov 2007 13:52
Member Since: October 2007 Posts: 44 Send Message	I wonder if anyone could help me. I'm quite excited to have found this information and have lots of questions and need a point in the right direction from others who are more experienced. Any help greatly appreciated. I have just found that my great-great-great grandfather born c1809 was born in Botany Bay Sidney Australia. I have this info from the 1851 census when hre is living in Great Yarmouth. He must have come to England before 1835 as the census shows he had a son born in Gt Yarmouth in that year. I can find no records of any Youens in Australia. Although I am not totally sure where I am supposed to be looking. If he was born in Sydney why did he come to England? If he was the son of a convict would he have been able to come here. Would the cost of passage to England been alot? He was a sugar boiler, how could he afford it? Did he return with his parents? Why were they in Australia if they were not convicts? (I can find no record of any Youens in the convicts records). Maybe I'm not looking in the right places? Many Thanks and Kind Regards Debbie