A Cornish Convict in Colonial Australia

Richard Polkinghorne married Grace Dunn on 1 September 1804 in Phillack, Cornwall.1 Their daughter, Honor, was baptized on 28 December 1806 in Phillack.2 Richard died at age 34 and was buried on 7 November 1814 in Phillack.3

Honor married Thomas Tremelling on 24 May 1828 in Phillack.4 He died at age 31 and was buried on 21 August 1836 in Phillack.5 She appeared in the census in 1841 in Camborne, Cornwall.6

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This map shows counties where I have found relatives on census records. Red represents my ancestors, and blue represents my other relatives. Census records are kept private for 72 years, so the 1960 census will be released to the general public on 1 April 2032.

Notable Women

Maggie Baird was born on 29 March 1959.1 She married Patrick O’Connell.2 She is my tenth cousin once removed. Our common ancestors were Samuel Bass and his wife Anne.3

1 "Births," The Daily Sentinel, 31 March 1959, p. 6, column 5.
2 Gardiner, Billie Eilish, 6.
3 Cutter, Genealogical and Personal Memoirs, 1387.

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