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Orange Grove Public School - Play Day NSW State Archives NRS 15051 School photograph collection Flickr Ahnentafel Number 39 Context for discovery: This biography was written as part of the " 52 ancestors in 52 weeks " exercise devised by Amy Johnson Crow.  You can join in too here . The theme for this month is "extending the branches" and for this week is "courting".   Margaret was my 3rd great-grandmother. Her life story is one of sometimes courting disaster, courting to seek affection or favour or to deceive, not to mention being in court. Much of what follows has appeared in previous posts on this blog but has been collated together in an attempt to obtain a more complete picture. Birth Date/Place: circa 1808 Caernarvonshire, Wales (from her convict indent and death certificate) Baptism Date/Place:  unable to find/identify Major World Events/Disasters/Wars etc 1815 - Napoleon was defeated at Waterloo 1833 - convict transportation to Australia peaks 1834...

The Dairymaid's Occupation Print made by John Faber, 1695–1756, Netherlandish, active in Britain after Philippe Mercier, 1689 or 1691–1760, Franco-German, active in Britain (from 1716) This work of art is believed to be in the public domain or has no known copyright restrictions. Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund This blog post is a combination of research conducted as part of a course undertaken earlier this year with the University of Tasmania into my convict ancestry and a bit of musing on my part since then. Margaret Taylor (nee Jones) was my 3x great-grandmother on my maternal side of the family.  An article in  The   Liverpool Mercury  dated 24 October 1828  [1]  reported that Margaret Jones, Ann Tierney and William Wakefield were sentenced to be transported for seven years for an extensive robbery of the property of  Christopher Buckle  at the Quarter Sessions on Monday.     Lancaster Castle by  srie...