Can someone please tell me what this says.

[flashieboy]

John Smithson

http://search.archives.tas.gov.au/default.aspx?detail=1&type=I&id=CON14/1/1

Pages 38 and 39......last one on the page.

Particular interest to me is the native place which is the column after sentence (his is life)

Thanks Ruth

[naomiatt]

Hi - when you click on that link the page says 212 male convicts.
Is it meant to turn a page? (could be me!!!)

[flashieboy]

It goes to the right place for me.

It should say...

Item Number: CON14/1/1 View this record online
Description: Lady East 9 Apr 1825
Further Description:

Arranged by the first letter of the convict's surname within the list for the ship on which they arrived
Start Date: 09 Apr 1825
End Date: 09 Apr 1825
Access:

Open
Location:

HOB
Copy Number: Z2496
Series:
• CON14 INDENTS OF MALE CONVICTS. 27 Jul 1824 26 May 1853

ANd then you click on the view this record on line.....then pages 38 and 39

[Karen S]

The other places you can read!!!



Great Coale, Linerhy?

Can't even think what it could be.

[naomiatt]

Hi - found it - can see York - further on - Great Cod*** Sm*****
sorry - doesn't help you much....do you have any idea where he came from?

[flashieboy]

No idea at all.....I only just found out last night that he appears to have married my gX3 grandmother when she came out to Tasmania as a convict.

the thought of her marrying never crossed my mind as she was about 56 when she was sent out.......but her marriage to John Smithson may exzplain why I have never found where she was buried.

Mind you I haven't been able to find either of the 2 possible John Smithson burials yet either.

[Karen S]

There is a Great Coates, near Grimsby.

The bottom word is confusing!

[flashieboy]

Could it say Lincolnshire.....I am not familiar with English places.

[Astro Lady]

Yes ,Karen is right,there is a Great Coates which is part of Grimsby in Lincolnshire.
On closer inspection i think the bottom word is definately Lincolnshire.

[scuda]

I see Great Coa---, Lincoln---
So Great Coates Linconshire seems quite likely to me.

scuda

[flashieboy]

Thank you all for looking...I will see what I can find out now.

[flashieboy]

I just had a quick look on Freereg and theer certainly were Smithson's in Great Coates Grimsby LIncolnshire in the early 1800's....and he was born in 1787...... so I would say we have solved the problem of where he came from.

Thank you.....Ruth