From what I've read of later English "convictions", during the Rev. War period and Australian colonization, the laws there were horrid. You could be transported to Australia for stealing a handkerchief or a crust of bread. I read of one boy who ended up being put on a ship for America after nearly everyone in his family had died of hunger, they were lucky if they could scrounge one potato to feed the family for a day. One by one, they all died, except his father, who put him on a ship. I guess you were supposed to just die quietly and, heaven forbid, not upset that class structure or annoy them in any way. Nancy ------- I was never lost, but I was bewildered once for three days. --Daniel Boone On Feb 2, 2007, at 1:51 PM, Mildred Fournier wrote: > Nope. A cousin has actually done some research in England and he > found her > conviction, etc. Apparently, she was from a pretty good family - > just a > wild-child, I guess. She was 17. > > > MWF > > -----Original Message----- > From: Discussion of research and writing about Virginia history > [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Sunshine49 > Sent: Friday, February 02, 2007 1:14 PM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: New Online Database of Indentured Servants > > You may be confusing this with later indentured servants in the > colonial > period, who were petty crooks and troublemakers [male and female], > who were > sent to Virginia. From the runaway ads in the Virginia Gazette, > they seemed > to have been quite a troublesome lot. A good many seem to have been > Irish, > or Welsh, a few Scots or English; a few could not speak English, > evidently > they were Gaelic-speaking. > > Nancy > > ------- > I was never lost, but I was bewildered once for three days. > > --Daniel Boone > > > > On Feb 2, 2007, at 12:14 PM, Mildred Fournier wrote: > >> While we are on the subject of "forced" emigration, does anyone >> have a >> list of the women sent to Virginia in 1619 to marry the planters? I >> am told that most of them came out of prisons or orphanages. >> >> >> MWF >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Discussion of research and writing about Virginia history >> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Nathan W. Murphy >> Sent: Friday, February 02, 2007 12:11 AM >> To: [log in to unmask] >> Subject: New Online Database of Indentured Servants >> >> ANNOUNCEMENT: Free Online Database of Indentured Servants, >> Redemptioners, and Transported Convicts >> >> PROJECT TITLE: Immigrant Servants Database >> >> PROJECT URL: www.immigrantservants.com >> >> DESCRIPTION: Nathan W. Murphy, Ph.D. candidate at the University of >> Utah, is using skills he developed as a social historian and >> professional genealogist to reconstruct a passenger arrival list of >> indentured servants coming to Colonial America. The project will >> continue for several years. It follows in the spirit of Peter Wilson >> Coldham's efforts to publish passenger departure lists from >> sources in >> the United Kingdom and Ireland for indentured servants and >> transported >> convicts, but focuses on tapping American sources of immigrant >> servant >> arrivals to complement the UK data. >> >> Murphy, an Accredited Genealogist who resides in Salt Lake City, >> Utah, >> has quick access to Colonial American and European sources through >> the >> Family History Library. He has received permission from the major >> publishers of Colonial Virginia's court orders to extract >> evidences of >> imported servants from their books and make them available for >> free on >> the Internet. >> He hopes >> to complete his search of seventeenth-century court orders by Spring >> 2007. >> >> NOTE: The approximately 10,000 immigrant servants currently in the >> database do not derive from the same sources as those in the Virtual >> Jamestown project. The numbers of immigrants in this new database >> will >> continue to grow in the future. >> >> PROJECT HIGHLIGHTS: >> - Three search engines: SIMPLE SEARCH (queries all text in database), >> ADVANCED SEARCH (search by any of more than 50 fields in database), >> and LETTER SEARCH (browse through lists of servants arranged by the >> first letter of their surname). The search engines are equipped with >> SOUNDEX, which retrieves servants with surnames that sound alike, >> i.e. >> Murphy, Morphew, Murfee, Murfew, Murfey, Murphew, and Murphey all >> come >> back as possible matches with the surname "Murphy." >> - LEARNING CENTER, includes a copy of Murphy's ARTICLE "Origins of >> Colonial Chesapeake Indentured Servants: American and English >> Sources," >> published in >> the March 2005 edition of National Genealogical Society Quarterly, >> which provides tips for tracing the immigrant origins of English >> indentured servants; GLOSSARY of terms associated with the >> practice of >> indentured servitude; extensive list of LAWS from Colonial Virginia >> pertaining to indentured servants; lengthy BIBLIOGRAPHY identifying >> sources Murphy has used and hopes to use to build this database >> (includes references to 12 personal accounts of immigrant servants); >> and a list of LINKS that will interest researchers of immigrant >> servants. >> >> Comments and suggestions are welcome. >> >> Nathan W. 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