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I had best delete...!!!

Wasn't reading it correctly ...Oh...the time wasted...well perhaps not..!!

Thank-you Beverley and Chris,

I even took off my glasses and squinted to try and find a name somewhere.

http://www.nas.gov.uk/onlineCatalogue/

(was waiting to see also!, as John one is on above)

Chris :)

Me too....
I don't think we have the name of the ancestor in question yet.

Could someone please explain where Jenny said her ancestor was John Abernethy?

I thought Thelma just used the name as an example - which was why she put EG ?

not one of the sites has the crime he committed - on one it says "crime unknown"

Marion - arrived in WA in 1852 SOURCES

This 684 ton ship was built in Calcutta in 1834. It was employed as a convict transport and left Portland, England on November 2, 1851 bound for the Swan River Colony. She carried the sixth of 37 shipments of male convicts destined for Western Australia. The voyage took 89 days and the Marion arrived in Fremantle on January 30, 1852 with 30 passengers and 279 convicts [Erickson]. Alex Bissett and Fred W. Le Grand were the captain and surgeon respectively.

There were no deaths recorded on the convict shipping and description lists and 279 convict numbers were assigned for the voyage ranging from (986 to 1264) although [Bateson] says 280 convicts embarked and only 279 arrived.

There were no pensioner guards on this voyage and the 30 passengers mentioned above have not been accounted for, but were possibly cabin passengers or regular soldiers. At the time the 'Perth Gazette' reported 30 sappers, 15 women & 19 children on the voyage in the company of a religious instructor named Crawley.

Convicted at: Scotland Glasgow Court of Justiciary
Sentence term: 10 years
Ship: Marion
Departure date: 30th October, 1851
Arrival date: 30th January, 1852
Place of arrival Western Australia
Passenger manifest Travelled with 280 other convicts

Ancestry have records but maybe no more than you already have.
EG
Australian Convict Transportation Registers – Other Fleets & Ships, 1791-1868 about John Abernethy
Name: John Abernethy
Vessel: Marion
Convicted Date: 25 Sep 1848
Voyage Date: 30 Oct 1851
Colony: Western Australia
Place of Conviction: Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland

Hi

If you post his name, age and place of birth we can take a look for you

Hello
Could someone advise me where I could find details of a convict sent to Austrailia in 1851. I would like to find out if he is one of our ancestors but no information is given other than his name on the www.convictrecords.au.com website.

Thanks