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| Mrs Joy Cordeiro | joy_c@illawarra.hotkey.net.au | AUSTRALIA | I am searching for my great-great-great-grandmother’s roots. Sarah Wise, aged 23, was transported to NSW aboard the convict ship Indispensible, arriving in April 1796, having been arrested for stealing in Thornbury. At her trial, at the Gloucester summer assizes 1795, it was stated that she was late of Rockhampton. Sarah became the wife of John Roberts, a professional soldier with whom she had ten children. They spent 14 years on Norfolk Island. She died in Sydney in 1850. I cannot connect to … |
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