I have been researching an ancestor of mine who I beleive was convicted and sent to Van Diemens land ( Tasmania) in 1852. His name was Charles Kent. According to family bible he was born in  about 1828 in Camberwell, London. Using Ancestry.com ,  I found him in the 1841 census living in a boarding school called Blemell House in Brompton. I then progressed to find  him back at home living  his parents and siblings in Kensington / Brompton. This is the rather interesting part.. On the Family bible, it reads that he died in 1853 ( My grandfather added a note next to this saying on route to Australia, probably emmigrating) On Ancestry.com, I discovered a handful of criminal records for a Charles Kent (born in abt 1830) He was tried in 1849 at the  Central Crimial Court (The Old Bailey) Middlesex and convicted of Larceny before convicted of felony in 1849 given sentence of seven years. I then researched the convict ships going to Australia and found one called the Equestrian that left England in autumn 1852 and arrived at Van Diemens land on the 16th December 1852. Charles Kent was on this ship. I  strongly believe that this is my relation and not a great coincidence! I found no marriage, death, Census records for Charles on Ancestry after 1851. I also went on the  Tasmania archive website and found the arrival book of the convicts from the Equestrian when the ship arrived in 1852. I located the