As is usual with coincidences, serendipity and flukes of nature, I posted a thread about the Turnbulls in Wollongong (William and Mary) and another genealogist has contacted me regarding their daughter Ann.
It appears that Ann was the reason the Turnbulls came to Australia.
Ann Turnbull was born circa 1824 in or around Hawick, Roxburghshire, Scotland. She was convicted in 1848 of culpable homicide and sentenced to 10 years transportation to Van Dieman’s Land (now Tasmania).
It appears that the family decided to come to Australia too, though I have no proof that there was any communication between Ann once she arrived in Tasmania and the Turnbulls while they were still in Hawick.
Ann married another convict, William Weedon, and had 5 children, as far as I have found, and died in 1901 at the age of 78. The Weedons lived around the Westbury area, about 50kms west of Launceston.
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