BJNL's GENEALOGY

Sometime not long after 4 February 1832, James Kirk, Benjamin Kirk and others were arrested and charged with sheep stealing. It was alleged that, on 4 February 1832, they stole one shear hog sheep, value 45 shillings [1] . This was said to have occurred in the parish of Mursley in Buckinghamshire; the sheep being the property of Thomas Whitworth. Photo by Unknown Author  is licensed under CC BY-SA James, Benjamin and the other men involved were tried and convicted on 28 February 1832 and sentenced to death [2] . However, as was common at that time, their death sentences were commuted to Transportation for Life.  Detail of what happened on 4 February can be found in the following newspaper reports:  The Bucks Gazette of 3 March 1832 [3] reported - "Benjamin Kirk, James Kirk, & Joseph Edwards were charged with having stolen oneshearhog sheep, the property of Thomas Whitworth at the parish of Mursley. The shepherd of the prosecutor said: 'My Master had 113 sheep on the

 I have written previously about George White   and Elizabeth Allen . Both George and Elizabeth were from Birmingham in Warwickshire, England. Both of them were transported to the Australian Colony of Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania) [1]  where they met and married. This post attempts to unravel their children.  It appears that George and Elizabeth had thirteen children: Seven survived to adulthood - Joseph, George, Elizabeth, Emma Amelia, Edwin, Alice Ann and Ada; while six died young - Ann, Alfred, Wallis, Alfred Wallis, Alfred and Walter. For some of these children, birth and death registrations are proving elusive. Perhaps some were not registered?  It is possible to piece some information together from the birth entries that have been found. In this post I attempt to do that. My analysis relies heavily on information from the birth entries for Emma (1955) [2] , Edwin (1858) [3] and Alice Ann (1860) [4]. Alice Ann’s birth entry is particularly useful because it lists, as at Ma