Anyone else into seeking their ancestors?

[darksideofthemoon]

I have become adicted to Ancestry.com and am lucky enough that one side of my family can be researched way back into the dim times.

The other side has hit a brick wall and I have to wait until someone else in the world may have more information.

How is everyone else going?

[flashie*]

She wasn't a convict was she Clair..........I am not sure when the stopped sending convicts to WA...............I know it was 1853 in Tasmania.

[clair.de.lune]

Don't know?! I'm really thinking she came out on one of these "Bride Ships" but were they female convicts on the bride ships?

I've just been googling the ships to WA, the year she arrived her ship name was a bride ship, the one after was definitely a convict ship but she came on the earlier ship

[flashie*]

This is s good site for convicts..............but some names are not on there yet.

http://foundersandsurvivors.org/pubsearch

[clair.de.lune]

On a quick search I couldn't find anything? There are so many variations of her maiden name

Great link though

I will keep digging

[clair.de.lune]

Actually is that Tasmanian convicts only?

[clair.de.lune]

I just found this:

Western Australia 's convict system differed from the eastern seaboard's schemes. WA refused to take female convicts

?

[flashie*]

I never knew that...............I also never bothered to look if that site include all of Australia......as I was only interested in Tasmanian convicts.

[clair.de.lune]

I wish I could find out more about these Bride Ships.

I have emailed WA Maritime Museum who got back to me right away but told me to try the State Archives because Colonial Government records are kept at the State Archives rather than in Museums.

I think maybe Bride ships were only to W.A.? If W.A. didn't accept female convicts then maybe that's why they had the bride ships?

[punch*drunk]

Clair, you need to visit WA 🙂

[clair.de.lune]

I do!