Thank you Liz, Frances and Julie.
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> Yes I have a copy of Never to Return and when I showed it to a senior
> librarian in the genealogy section of the State Library of Victoria
> they purchased a copy.
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> As Frances said I have corresponded with Hampton Creer and he was most
> helpful.
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> Some corrections to the information raised:-
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> *Although the book lists her as "Mary" her name was in fact "Sarah"
> this is shown in the trial record and on various documentation used
> here to keep track of convicts, also on her death certificate and the
> name of one of her daughter's children. Mary seems to have come from
> an incorrect report i "Monas Herald".
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> *After recovering in Cork from the cholera Thomas who had been taken
> off the Lady Kennaway destined for Tasmania was shipped on the Mary
> Ann (4) and arrived in Sydney in 1835..
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> *Thomas was granted a Ticket of Leave (Colonial parole) in May 1844
> "....to remain in the District of Moreton Bay." Brisbane is on Moreton
> Bay but at that time the "District of Moreton Bay" stretched well down
> into what is today the State of New South Wales.

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> *So far as he being on a chain gang and with a prisoner Patrick Kneale
> I have heard of this but so far found no documentation to confirm it.
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