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Thankyou Kate, I don't know how I missed that. I wonder if David Reid was a relative.
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19-09-15, 16:09
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One of my relatives from Kent was transported to Tasmania around the same time as John Reid for stealing 10 hop poles (the long poles hops are grown on). On the face of it that doesn't sound a very terrible crime by today's standards but....a) this wasn't the first time he had committed this offence and b) the judgement points out that, by stealing those poles from a hop farmer he was depriving someone of the means to make a living and feed his family. He was a widower and left a couple of children who had to go into the workhouse. Anne Reid would have done well to think that the same fate would have befallen her gt. grandfather if tbe much maligned Husband grandparents had't looked out for him. My rellie never came back either. At the end of his sentence he married a local widow who owned an inn.......and then ran off with her daughter!!!!
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20-09-15, 12:49
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Anne Reid's reactions asside, I really enjoyed that one.
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20-09-15, 15:16
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This week's looks good on paper. It is Frank Gardner, the BBC's security correspondent whose mother claimed that their family arrived here with the Normans in 1066. I can't find a link but the Telegraph TV guide suggests that they do get an awfully long way back in their research.
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Find my past blog has a few additions to the story: http://blog.findmypast.co.uk/2015/fa...FdMbFgodsl8Kag
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