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Re: Thomas TACEY : Convict to Tasmania ?
« Reply #9 on: Wednesday 16 April 14 08:19 BST (UK) »

Could this inquiry in the newspaper in 1879 be regarding the same man?


http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/8979523?searchTerm="thomas tacey"&searchLimits=l-textSearchScope=*ignore*%7C*ignore*|||l-word=*ignore*%7C*ignore*|||l-title=10

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Re: Thomas TACEY : Convict to Tasmania ?
« Reply #10 on: Wednesday 16 April 14 17:39 BST (UK) »
Hi Sue,

Thanks for the newspaper notice.

It could be the same .. but additional data would be needed.

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Re: Thomas TACEY : Convict to Tasmania ?
« Reply #11 on: Wednesday 16 April 14 22:53 BST (UK) »
The actual census returns are available online without having to order them. Just go to this web portal -

http://portal.archives.tas.gov.au/menu.aspx?search=10

Enter the details of the person your looking for and click search. Will bring up a list of names and locations plus census locations. In this case Tacey, Thomas 1848 Launceston CEN1/1/102 page 53.

Click on the 53 and it will take you to the METS Reader and the 2 page Census return.

Found this  to be an excellent resource...

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Re: Thomas TACEY : Convict to Tasmania ?
« Reply #12 on: Wednesday 16 April 14 23:06 BST (UK) »
Thanks Peter. So that census tells us he was married with one kid. And it appears his wife was born in the colonies.


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Re: Thomas TACEY : Convict to Tasmania ?
« Reply #13 on: Thursday 17 April 14 02:46 BST (UK) »
Thomas T(R)ACEY was a steerage passenger on the Yarra Yarra which departed Launceston for Melbourne on 20 Oct 1852.  He had arrived in the colony on the Runnymede and had a conditional pardon. http://portal.archives.tas.gov.au/menu.aspx?search=2

This doesn't mean he left Tasmania permanently, but at least you know he was still alive.

I initially thought that the census entry was for Thomas FACEY and his wife and daughter who lived in Launceston at the time.  However the married male holding a ticket of leave would apply to Thomas TACEY rather than Thomas FACEY who arrived free on the Royal Saxon in 1842.

Giblet, the married female arrived free, not born in the colony.

I can't see a marriage or any births which might be connected to Thomas TACEY.

'LACEY' is possibly another misinterpreted name you should be looking for.

JonJon, have you identified parents' names for your Thomas?  Death registrations in Victoria record the parents' names if they were known by the informant.

Debra  :)

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Re: Thomas TACEY : Convict to Tasmania ?
« Reply #14 on: Thursday 17 April 14 13:56 BST (UK) »
Thank you Debra,

I had trawled the Taz marriage images on FamilySearch and discovered a marriage of a Thomas FACEY and Betsy BEAM(?). I should look at the death registers for Sarah PAGE.

Also; using Trove found a Family Notice from Bendigo, dated 1888, that seems to be a match.
Surname given as TACEY  death dates for Thomas & Betsy.  No idea how to follow-up short of buying death certs. Have not attempted to find Bendigo cemetery records on-line yet.

Sadly I do not know who Thomas TACEY's parents were. He was born about 1810 probably in Leicestershire, England; likely at Borrow-upon-Soar.  His UK wife's family were Baptists. She remarried as Catherine TACEY to a John HUBBARD in 1849.. see tree on Ancestry.

All for now.

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Re: Thomas TACEY : Convict to Tasmania ?
« Reply #15 on: Thursday 17 April 14 14:44 BST (UK) »
Thomas FACEY and Betsy KEAM/KEAN/CAIN/KING and their children went to Victoria in 1852.  He is a different person from Thomas TACEY (I wondered myself briefly if he was the same person).

There are notices in the paper after he died in the name of FACEY, but just one was mistakenly written as TACEY.  He arrived free in 1842 on the Royal Saxon and Betsy said she arrived free on the Indian but I can only find a surviviing list of male immigrants who arrived on that ship in 1842.  http://portal.archives.tas.gov.au/menu.aspx?search=2

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Re: Thomas TACEY : Convict to Tasmania ?
« Reply #16 on: Thursday 17 April 14 15:24 BST (UK) »
Thanks Debra,

Very good of you to follow up.

FWIW, my wife is fra' Dundee, Scotland.

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JonJon