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Hi Brenda,

I found it interesting to reread it too! 

Hope you are well, and to you too Billy,

Marlene aka Mo

Hoping for some help with Byron Young's convict records, please.  He arrived in Van Diemen's Land in August 1843 on the 'Cressy'.
His indent record has quite a bit of extra information.  I have been able to work out a lot of it but need some help for the crucial parts!

1st box is under the heading of 'Surgeon's Report' and says 'most indefatigable as a schoolmaster on Board - Patient perservering very successful'
2nd box 'Trade' has 'Clerk - at a merchantile house to Mr Moses Benjamin'
3rd box 'Native Place' has 'I was educated at New York & kept a school there - I then *  N___r_[?]'
4th box 'Remarks' has '20th regt 5 or 6 mos.  I volunteered from the 83rd Regt in which I was 6 mos.  Aunt Maria Young - - I So___[?]  *I went to demarara about 5 yrs ago to obtain a situation - I got with Mr Moses Benjamin the American Concul.'

Can anyone read what the missing words are in the Native Place box and the Remarks box?  The fact that he's done all those jobs and he's only listed as 23 years old I find of interest too.

I have also attached a part of his description list where it looks to me like his Native Place is 'Co of Down'.  Do others agree?

Thank you,
Marlene

I'm not sure I can offer much as it sounds like you are doing a good job already.  I thought I'd have a go anyway. 

My experience with Ancestry DNA matches has thrown up some intriguing results, some cases I've cracked and others I haven't.  I've found the coloured buttons very useful to group matches into families.  Also the search function for names alone and with a birth location (country or parish) if it is a common name.  Organisation of your matches into groups I've found extremely useful and using/constructing associated family trees to see where each match fits into the family tree.

It is sometimes the very small percentage match that can pinpoint the shared ancestors too.  For example I had a mystery group who matched very strongly to my maternal paternal line.  The ones that had trees allowed me to isolate the probable NPE to an area and timeframe but the possible fathers where a group of cousins and their father's who were brothers.  It was only when I was searching DNA matches for those who had one of the ancestral names from this group that I was able to work out which brother's sons would have been the father and therefore the generational pairing it went back too.  This was because the tiny match only matched through one ancestral name, which was the maiden name of one brother's wife - Goacher.  For the tiny match who descended from the Goacher family to match to me and one of the mystery matches it meant the mystery match had to have Goacher ancestry.  Which showed me which brother and his wife were the ancestors.  As there were only two sons old enough to father a child at the time in question it narrowed it done again.  Known lifestyles of the two possible fathers made one (my 3x great grandfather) the most likely Daddy. 

I hope this example can offer you some help in working out how to solve your mystery.
Best of luck,
Marlene   

Can anyone figure out what this name is please?  I thought Nagle or Hughes but they don't fit the information given with the name.
The part in question says 'I received a letter from ? per Minerva he has a son in 9 mos [months] & 15 days his wifes sister who was married on the same day had a son 9 mos exactly her brother's wife also had a son in 11 mos they were all three within a month of each other'

As I think the letter was written from Tasmania (VDL) I searched the Tasmanian Names Index for marriages of Hughes in 1845 and 1846 (the letter is dated 9 July 1847) but none appeared with a women who's surname matched another entry of a bride the same day.  There were no Nagles.

Thanks, Marlene