I am after wisdom in finding more info on Robert Bassett who is sent to VDL from the Old Bailey notes on the Duchess of Northumberland 1 from Sheerness in 1842. I have read the Tas Archives pages and wonder where I can go from there. He is in Sydney approx 1850 where he marries Isabella Munro in 1852.Would appreciate any help.
Chris

Chris, you say you have Robert's convict records and so details of his English family and you know he married in NSW. You ask "where do you go from there" an answer is where do you WANT to go? Forwards, backwards or just in more detail? Help?
Denis

Thanks for getting back Denis. I have a little of Robert's life before in England and would like more but I am very keen to know more of his life in Van Dieman's Land.(What resources apart from the Tasmanian Archives are available?) I have quite a of detail on his life in Victoria post 1860.
Chris

Hello Chris
About this man's history in England - so information to take from the record - CON14/1/19 at
http://search.archives.tas.gov.au/ImageViewer/image_viewer.h... and the next page
This has family details (f for father, s for son or sister, b for brother, m for mother). So Robert has a father John, brothers John and Charles, sisters Hannah and Ann. Native place is St Pancras.
From the IGI index and born to John Bassett and Elizabeth Margaret Charlotte
Elizabeth b. 13 Aug 1815, christened 3 Sep 1815 d. 30 Nov 1817.
Charles Thomas Robert b. 21 Dec 1817, christened 24 May 1818 also 1826
Thomas Foxall b. 3 Apr christened 15 Jun 1823 d. 30 May 1824
Robert b. 20 Nov 1820 christened 31 Dec 1820
Ann Elizabeth b. 25 Nov christened 18 Dec 1825

Census 1841 at Holborn, St Pancras for Bassett -
John 55, Robert 20, Ann 11, Hannah William 65

London Parish Records - Elizabeth Margaret Charlotte Bassett St Pancras Camden 3 Jan 1830 41 years.

John Bassett d. Sep Quarter 1851 St Pancras.

Hannah Williams d. Jun Quarter 1841St Pancras. I think Hannah would be the mother-in-law.

Not much for him in Tasmania records but on the departures list - Thomas Bassett, arrived on Duchess of Northumberland, free by servitude, from Launceston 12 Sep 1849 for Portland Bay on "City of Sydney". There was no Thomas Bassett on the Duchess, only Robert. So looks like he went to Victoria, but slightly early for the gold rush as motive.

Thank you for taking the time in adding extra details to Robert Bassett and his family with Parish Records etc.I have researched him for quite some time but had not discovered the link to Van Diemans Land until recently.
Kind Regards Chris

Chris Sorry but I am still unclear as to what you meant when you said you had "read" the pages in the Tas. Archives
I had assumed you meant the on-line convict records, the other postler had assumed not!
My reason for asking - is that his conduct record does give a little more information on where he was and what he did before leaving vDL. Here some personnel interest as in 1845 he was working for William Archer of Brickendon, a man who in 1855 hired a number of German immgrants to replace the convict labour he no longer had! Amongst these was my g-grandfather Ludwig Dornauf from Kelkheim nr. Frankfurt. Let me know if of interest?
Denis

Hello Denis,
I had read the Convict Records but they were challenging as this my first Convict. I had not discovered the Conduct Record so I am grateful for the further detail. I am very interested! Thank you! Do you have more information on where Robert Bassett was working?
Chris

Agreed, the records are hard to find (used to be called the Biblical system -seek and you shall find)and difficult to interpret. Robert's are comparatively short and I can transcribe them for you. However rootsweb post does strange things to any formatted Words file so your E-mail address? If you are shy about it to denis@poole.ch
Regards