St Peter's Anglican Cemetery at East Maitland, usually known as the Glebe Cemetery, is reputed to be one of the the oldest cemeteries in the Hunter Region. Already in use for about ten years, the burial ground was consecrated on St Peter’s Day 1843, when Bishop Broughton performed the ceremony in a tent erected on the ground.
(http://cemindex.arkangles.com/cemetery-inscriptions.php?id=158)
Hiland Crescent Cemetery, Hiland Crescent & Maize Street, Tenambit 2323 NSW
Inscriptions have been identified that date from as early as 1841 - in fact there is a considerable number of stones still standing from that decade. There is only a small number bearing dates after 1900. It is understood that the cemetery originally provided Catholic and Presbyterian portions with an Anglican portion being added later.
(http://cemindex.arkangles.com/cemetery.php?id=225)

Copy this to your browser, and it will show you the distance between the two cemetaries.
http://maps.google.com.au/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=Glebe+cemetary+east+maitland&daddr=Hiland+crescent+cemetary+east+maitland&hl=en&geocode=&mra=ls&sll=-25.335448,135.745076&sspn=55.47973,56.162109&ie=UTF8&ll=-32.746136,151.601715&spn=0.104098,0.109692&z=13

My relative's funeral notice said the funeral cortege left his residence in William St in East Maitland to Hiland Crescent Cemetary East Maitland, so I was able to use Streetview to "walk" the route and it was an experience !


Some convicts familys petitioned the Lord Lieutenant for clemency. http://www.nationalarchives.ie/topics/transportation/transp8.html
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(Fm Google Maps)
Walking directions to Cork, Co. Cork, Republic of Ireland from Dublin (retracing convict route prior to transportation)
249 km – about 2 days 3 hours
you can type in Dublin then Cork in the Directions box
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?utm_campaign=en_GB&utm_medium=lp&utm_source=en_GB-lp-emea-gb-gns-svn

At the time the practice was in the cases of transportation the prisioners were marched to Cork and placed on prision hulks, decommissioned ships stripped of masts and rigging and used as floating prisions.

This is the website of the Society of Australian Genealogists referring to prision hulks

http://www.sag.org.au/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=50#History)


Added 18Jul09 (if the link doesn't look active copy to your browser)

Link to explain the convict assignment system;
http://home.vicnet.net.au/~dcginc/editorials.html

Link to biography for Archibald Bell, cheif police magistrate of Windsor area, who was assigned master to Pat. Fagan,
http://adbonline.anu.edu.au/biogs/A010076b.htm

Added 19 July 09
Ireland-Australia transportation database
http://www.nationalarchives.ie/search/index.php?category=18

Irish Convicts to New South Wales 1788-1837 Database (very easy to use - good results)
http://members.pcug.org.au/~ppmay/cgi-bin/irish/irish.cgi

NSW State Records Authority (excellent site to look for convict references such as ships tickets of leave etc)
http://srwww.records.nsw.gov.au/indexes/keyname_search.asp

Irish Convicts Transported to Australia link (Good background and mentions Windsor)

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~fianna/oc/oznz/pasconau.html