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Records of the first Drysdale convicts to travel to Australia

Data from Australia Convict transportation database & Find my past   Convict - William Drydale 1796 Hampshire - Barwell Indents from E…

Started by Ronald Drysdale

2 Aug 28
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William Drydale - the 1st recorded "Drysdale" to arrive in Australia (1798)

Hi all William Drysdale was one of the first British convict settlers in Australia. It was only some 28 years earlier, in 1770, that Lieute…

Started by Ronald Drysdale

0 Aug 15

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Making conections

The more information you can give about the people you mention, the more chance there is of someone else connecting with your family.

Dates and places of births, deaths and marriages all help to place families.

Professions also help.

'My great-grandmother mother was a Douglas from Montrose' does not give many clues to follow up! But a bit of flesh on the bones makes further research possible. But if we are told who she married, what his profession was and where the children were baptised, then we can get to work.

Maybe it is time to update the information in your profile?


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