The Journey

  My Convicts Ancestors The following are some of my convict ancestors    Mary Turner (Wilks) Arrived on the First Fleet 1788 Ship  “Lady Penrhyn” David Batty Arrived on the Third Fleet 13/10/1794 on the  "Albemarle" Frances Piper arrived on 14/12/1801 on the  “Minorca” Richard Yardy arrived 31/10/1835 on the He was sent on the  “Mary Ann” Others of interest  William Spears -  Colonial soldier, enlisted in the 102nd Regiment, New South Wales Corps of Foot, on January 4, 1800, in London Jonathan Piper Son of Francis Piper, Early Ship builder  Known as the ‘father’ of the Brisbane Water shipbuilding industry on the Central coast NSW in the very early days of the Colony Mary Turner / Wilks 1761-1808 Mary Turner alias Wilks was around 19 years of age when convicted of stealing at Worcestershire on 5 March 1785 and sentenced to 7 years transportation. She was sent on the ship “Lady Penrhyn” and in 1787 the ships of the first fleet sailed to establish a penal colony i

  Discovering my grandmother's name  Joseph Iris and Ida  After many months and months of piecing together bits and working out a lady only known as "Aunty Polly" as my father's Joseph Wright had known her. From the photos Raine had put on Ancestry.  Also after slowly unraveling the intricate threads of my family history finding out my father had also been Adopted way back in 1928 in Victoria by Les & Ann Wright ( Raine is their grand daughter) and this was a year before the Adoption Act had come in Victoria, so records and  information was hit and miss, even the way adoptions were carried out in some cases was more of a anything goes. So Aunty Polly is Ida Mary Pulz, Ida was born in 1905 and I found out she lived to the ripe old age of 97 passing in 2001.  She had also got married later in life and had a daughter. This is another one of the many other things I'm working on now. But more on that later. Also Ida and her Sister in law were the Licensee's o