According to my Aunt Gwen, who lived in Launceston, the original Field was a redcoat assigned to a convict ship..............until the 1970's, when it became fashionable to have a convict hanging (no pun intended) from your family tree...........then, suddenly, the original Field became a transportee.......

9, no convicts on my direct line though, we were all good people

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I'm only 1st generation (ten quid tourist) but Mr. Elephant has ancestors going back to the first fleet and enough convicts in his past to fill a small jail.