The Family Detective

 I've pinned down James Hardy & his wife Jane as having arrived per the London, a convict ship which departed from Kingston, Northern Ireland, 20 December, 1850 and arrived Hobart Town, 20 March, 1851. The reasons I have come to this conclusion are: James & Jane's daughter Isabella was born at sea (BDM records) and registered April 1851. Ship's surgeon James Booth's medical journal records one child surviving birth on the ship. Military records record James being sent with 4 others to Newry to board a convict ship to Australia as a convict guard.  James Hardy Serial Number 155. Shipping Intelligence for the month shows convict ship London arrived 20 March (close to estimated date in above image). It was the only convict ship arriving from Kingstown and onboard were 30 pensioners guards.  James Hardy is named in the medical records of the Cornwall that arrived in 1851. Isabell Hardy was listed as being born at sea April 1851 and this would mean it could not hav...

3 weeks shy of 3 years ago I knew a lot about my Great Great Grandfather James Hardy. I saved a file about him and then I got side tracked with some other branch of the tree. James was always hard work and so was his son John as they both lived in an area with someone of the same name and some other similar details that made it hard to determine which was my James and which was their James. This is what I saved for James Hardy: Born: Ireland 1828 Immigrated: 1851 on the "Cornwall" Married: Jane Cadman: Unknown details Lived: 89 Marriott Street, Westbury, Tasmania Occupation: Retired Military Soldier from the 66th or 77th Regiment Died Deloraine, Tasmania, 1881 Some other facts I remember but didn't save information for included James was given a retirement fund as a soldier that included some land, a pear tree and a well. James was not the convict James Hardy Vaux and there was another James Hardy in Westbury at the same time. His regiment was a foot regime...

HINT: DOUBLE CHECK THE FACTS Going back to my original saved document from 3 years ago, I have James Hardy dying in Deloraine? But where did I get this from? I can indeed find a James Hardy dying in Deloraine in May 1900 (would have been deceased at the time of John's wedding). Now I am not sure how I have made a connection to Deloraine? 2011 was very early in my family researching days so perhaps I had just got that wrong? Searching the Death indexes in Ancestry.com I have James Hardy 1881 infact dying in Westbury, not Deloraine. So one of my original facts is wrong. Is my James the James Hardy of 1881, dying in Westbury or perhaps the James Hardy death in May 1900 in Deloraine? If we assume that James is the James who had lived in Westbury (we know John and his siblings were born in Westbury) then the date has to be 1881 as we have the Trove article about the sale of his estate and possible caveats. I want to dismiss Deloraine information at this stage because I don't r...