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Skeletons in the ancestors
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Nigel | Report | 12 Jan 2004 22:55 |
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Good luck Stephanie - I hope you penetrate the family secrets enough to find out. Margaret - it was all discovered by a cousin of mine, but it was quite a famous case in Gloucester at the time. 11 men were in the gang, and two were hung. Some local person wrote a book about it, so a lot was in there. |
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Margaret | Report | 12 Jan 2004 22:52 |
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Nigel The same thing happened to my great, great grandad in 1838. He was given 7 years. How did you find out what happened to him after he was transported? Mine obviously came back to England, or I wouldn't be here. I can't find him on the 1841 census, well I wouldn't if he was in Australia. He got married in Rutland in 1846, and is on the 1851 census. Margaret |
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Steph | Report | 12 Jan 2004 22:49 |
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My husbands grandfather , from Northampton, was in Warwick prison on the 1901 census. No-one in the family has ever mentioned it and am still trying to find out why! Is listed as army private, so was possibly charged for being AWOL. |
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Nigel | Report | 12 Jan 2004 22:38 |
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I am a bit new to all this, but one of my ancestors, a John Reeves, was deported to Australia in 1816 for being part of a poaching gang that killed someone. He served 6 years and was pardoned. What skeletons do others have they are prepared to share? |
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