I have 17 direct line convict ancestors and numerous other convict connections – at least 20 identified and still counting. I have researched most of them but there is always more to find out.
These are my direct line convict by name / year / ship:
Edward Garth 1788 Scarborough
Jacob Bellette 1788 Scarborough
Susannah Gough/Garth 1788 Friendship
Ann Harper 1790 Lady Juliana
Robert Guard (Gard) 1819 Hibernia
Thomas Bennett Gard 1822 Arab
William Poultney 1822 Prince of Orange
Alexander McKay 1823 Sir Godfrey Webster
John Bailey 1827 Governor Ready
Margaret Robertson 1838 Nautilus
James Foster 1842 Isabella
Mary Barnes 1842 Royal Admiral
Robert Lenton 1844 Sir Robert Peel
Anne Griffin 1849 Lord Auckland
John Flakemore 1853 St Vincent
No need to say much about Edward Garth, Susannah Gough, Jacob Bellett and Anne Harper as they are well documented and I think they populated half of Tasmania from the 21 children the two couples produced. Three of the Garth siblings married three Bellett siblings and produced another 32 children between them.
John Clarke per Calcutta lived at Tea Tree, and was a successful farmer. His daughter Mary came to VDL in 1826 and had a large family with Henry Phillips who had arrived in 1820. Their daughter Anne Phillips married Robert Gard who was son of Thomas Bennett Gard (1822) and grandson of Robert Gard (1819).
William Poultney married Margaret Robertson and settled at Hamilton. James Foster married Anne Griffin and lived on the North West coast of Tasmania at Port Sorell, Forth and Kindred.
Alexander McKay is fairly well known and documented. John Bailey was one of many smugglers from Kent who arrived in 1827, again well documented.
Mary Barnes married a John Hall and little is known about these two. Their daughter Martha married John Flakemore, another Tasmanian populator starting in the Huon Valley and lastly Robert Lenton whose life seems to have been fairly feckless.