Looking at this with a pair of modern eyes, travelling whilst so close to when you are due to give birth does not necessarily seem out of the ordinary. So what about in 1894? Would a pregnant woman about to give birth travel across the countryside in a horse and cart? .

Trace your family tree - Australian and English family trees. The Australia of today, along with the spirit of its people, was created mainly by convicts transported from England. The European settlement of Australia was established by British convicts, along with British marines and their families, in 1788.

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My husband descends from George Hodges who married Mary Ann Keens and down through their son Henry. In 1828 he was found in the Male Orphan School at Cabramatta eventually been claimed in 1830 by his mother Hannah Hodges and her common law husband, Henry Warren. Hannah had arrived as a convict in 1827 on the Grenada with two male children, George being one the other was William.