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Family History Beginners Board / Re: WOOD William
« on: Thursday 11 October 18 12:35 BST (UK)  »
Hi, I have more information on William Wood.  He is my GGGGrandfather.  I live in Western Australia and recently have been doing some research on him.  When he came to Sydney Australia he was immediately sent to King George Sound, in Western Australia to help set up a penal colony and settlement.  They left Sydney on the Brigit Amity and took 6 weeks to reach the sound which was on christmas day 1826. William was also with his brother Thomas.  William was an overseer of the convicts.  His wife Anne joined him not too long after from England.  This was the very first settlement in Western Australia and they called it Fredericks Town which is now called Albany.  So our ancestor was a pioneer of Western Australia.  After a few years the penal part was abandoned and William and Anne return to Sydney.  They were given a parcel of land at Bong Bong..... here is a link to the wood family tree. woodfamilytree.com.au

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Australia / Re: James Freeman b1835 Eng, transported 1860 on Norwood.
« on: Saturday 22 August 15 07:52 BST (UK)  »
Oh yes it can be very interesting.  Just doing a bit of research now on James when he had his boarding house on high street in Fremantle.  Over the years he got himself into a bit of trouble with the law still.  Have got clippings through Trove.

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Australia / Re: James Freeman b1835 Eng, transported 1860 on Norwood.
« on: Saturday 22 August 15 06:57 BST (UK)  »
Judb,

Wonderful!  Thankyou so much for that information.  How are you connected to James?

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Australia / Re: James Freeman b1835 Eng, transported 1860 on Norwood.
« on: Friday 21 August 15 12:36 BST (UK)  »
Hi Flogged,

I haven't been on here for awhile and I didn't reply to your last email.  Yes Im in WA, Mandurah.  Have been very ill with 2 types of cancer would you believe, on the mend now.

I have some information about James Freeman.  I have obtained his death cert and he did diedof Phthisis (pronounced tiesis), it's wasting away from Tuberculosis.  Gee he must have had a hard life.  A convict, sent to Vasse, probably hard labour and I would say got TB way before it eventually took his life at 46.

I have emailed the Lancashire Archives in England about obtaining his conviction records and this is the reply I got......

Thank you for your email. We do have some records of the courts of quarter sessions in Lancashire, including order books and calendars of prisoners. These records are not name indexed and the registration number you have supplied will not help to locate the records. We do not offer a research service as resources are limited but we do have a list of local record agents who will do research for a fee. I have attached it to this reply and you can also find it on our website.

Our quarter sessions order books and petitions can now be found online on Ancestry, so if you have a worldwide subscription you can see the records on there.

So if we want this info we either pay someone to get it or go on Ancestry to try and locate it.  I dont have a membership, so maybe I should get one.

Did I also mention in an earlier email the his son William who became a policeman in Carnarvon did have actually 16 children not 11 as thought.  Here is a list of the names of the children.....
Sydney, Lilly, William, Ellen, Selina, Herbert, Edith, Samuel, Aubrey, Alfred, Maler, Rubina (my grandmother), Lorne, Avril, Ronald and Leonard.  I have their birth and death dates too.

Other information I have is that he ran a boarding house in the cappuccino strip, west end, on the bend after his pardon .


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Australia / Re: James Freeman b1835 Eng, transported 1860 on Norwood.
« on: Wednesday 13 August 14 11:20 BST (UK)  »
Thanks so much for all your information.  Just to throw a spanner in the works could James have been Irish? and not born in England at all.  Seeing there is discrepancies with his parents names, maybe the baptism record is not the James we are looking for?

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Australia / Re: James Freeman b1835 Eng, transported 1860 on Norwood.
« on: Wednesday 13 August 14 08:23 BST (UK)  »
Hi There,

Thanks for getting back to me.  Oh no problems about the certificate.  I am thinking of going to the State Library to do some more investigation on James.  I might find some snippets of things about his character and what daily life was like for him.  He died rather young at 46 do you know the cause of death?  My father Terrance was adopted and his mother was Rubina Lottie Freeman the 12 child of William and Charlotte Bird.  So until now we have never know anything about this line of our family.  HOw are you connected to the Freemans?

Thanks Kim

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Australia / Re: James Freeman b1835 Eng, transported 1860 on Norwood.
« on: Wednesday 13 August 14 08:02 BST (UK)  »
Hi Neil,

Thank you so much for your helpful reply.  Ok great I understand about the email thing now thankyou.  Thanks for looking up the census for me however that isnt him.  He was born in, we think 1835 because he was 27 when he came out on the Norwood ship in 1862.

Well hopefully I will get a reply from flogged.

Thanks once again for your help much appreciated...Kim

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Australia / Re: James Freeman b1835 Eng, transported 1860 on Norwood.
« on: Wednesday 13 August 14 06:08 BST (UK)  »
Hi,

My great great grandfather was James Freeman. Lineage James/William/Rubina/Terrance/Kim.  In your post you say you have a marriage certificate for James.  What would be the possibility of a copy of that sent to my email address?  I would very much appreciate that if possible.

Much appreciate Kim Dawson

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