Day Two at blogging
Not much time devoted to writing and research today, at least not of the blogging kind. Instead, I have spent about five hours at the Matron’s Cottage of the Cascades Female Factory transcribing conduct records for female convicts arriving in Van Diemen’s Land in 1839 on the ship “Hindostan”. As part of my genealogy, I have found four male and four female convicts in my family. There are many records online for researching convicts sent to Australia. Presently, on SBS TV, they are showing the series “Who do you think you are?” and I found the first Australian episode with Jack Thompson enthralling especially when he found he had a convict in his background. “Australian Royalty”, he exclaimed.
