The Convict Ships

 When I started to research the Scaysbrook name, Michael Scaysbrook came to bear, but I wanted to know a little of the background to his transportation, and I was lucky enough to find a book that described life as a transported fellow from the UK. The new books I have added to the Biblio help understand the top and life on board.

On average the trip to Sydney lasted from about 141days through to about 170 days, ships often sailed via the coast of Africa, round the Horn and sail the Southern ocean, taking roughly 160 days on average, by comparison the clippers could do it in 74 days.

Life on board would be tough, bad food, and any misdemeanour or wrong doing however trivial would result in many lashes from the Captain. Death was common and not all the convicts were expected to survive the trip.

women were transported separately from men, the subject of Sian Rees's excellent book the Floating Brothel

Most if not all the voyages are well recorded, the excellent book "The Convict Ship" by Charles Bateson gives a graphic encounter of many of the passages and how captains and ships surgeons often flouted the law. Batesons book not only tells the story but also loses the boats and crew for each voyage.

The Australian Scaysbrook Facebook website page

 I have recently signed back up to Facebook, I cancelled my subscription a few years back, simply because of the antics of Facebook, trying to manipulate the way the world sees things. But, there is always a but, I lost contact with Australia, and the Scaysbrooks down there. So I signed back in and linked back to the family.

The Scaysbrook page is very specific, in the people and history for Australia, that means Michael Scaysbrook and the vast list of decedents, located in and around Sydney. I shall be, I hope travelling down to Sydney in 2023, so another reason to make contact.

On this website, I have listed a lot of the news I found on the trial and transportation of Michael, his marriage and family, his son also called Michael, married and had 17 children, hence to explosion of Scaysbrooks, all I might add did reasonably well from a convict.

There is a reasonably large number of what is commonly called the £10 poms, those recent migrants who saw a better life down under. 

But back to the Scaysbrook Facebook page, I strongly suggest if your a Scaysbrook living out there, or are a UK scaysbrook, with family out there take the plunge and sign up, and follow the chat.

The site here has been stagnant for a few years, so this addition of the Scaysbrook blog is the first of many new additions I am planning.

I recently made a change to Google sites, it mades operating the site so easy, so changes will come.

Till then have fun, its spring here in the UK, Autumn in Australia. so have fun where ever you are.

Retirement and a return to the Scaysbrook Genealogy

 Well, its been seven years since I last posted on this site, I have not done a lot of geneology since then, but have kept things in place for a return.

So no apologies, other than lecturing at Birmingham City University, a little travelling and a lot of marking kept me away.

All my electronic records are within Acesestery.com I have added recent additions to my own family line, in my four grandchildren, My paper record, are in a single binder and in a bit of a mess, so first job is to convert and import them into my Mac. I use Obsidian, a knowledge base program, I use for all my research, more on that later.

Against my better judgement, I have returned to Facebook, for no other reason than the Australian arm of the Scaysbrook line tends to gather there. so if you want to talk, that's one place I will hang out in at least once a week. 

The Scaysbrook.com web site has been revamped and rewritten on Google sites for no other reason than its free, and very easy to use. please visit and see what's there, I shall be adding new information as soon as I can.

This blog will remain as the more frequent source of information, again its so easy to use and free. There is a link system and I will try and bring each blog into the site for ease of reading.

There we are, retirement and a renewed interest in the Scaysbrook and variants blood line.

As always, if you are a Scaysbrook, send a link, lets chat, if your name looks like scaysbrook, ie Scasbrick or similar, chances are we are in the same line, so again drop a line here and chat. I am, thinking of opening up a new Scaysbrook page on Facebook to mirror the Australian site. If and when it happens I'll post a link here.

My next blog will be of my Grandfathers, my mothers Stepfather, the only Grandfather I knew, my blood line grandfathers I never met, or they died before  can remember any memories.

Todays picture, is some of their death or birth Certificates.

Till then be safe in these interesting Covid times.

Scays

Henry de Scaresbrek

The many genealogy sites have opened up many new database, one that is proving popular is the Battle of Agincourt , all the soldiers are listed, and the Name Scaresbrek is listed, this relates to

Looks like he went out as a yeoman and came back as a Man at Arms

No link to us I think, but it would be nice to prove

Ref

http://www.britishbattles.com/100-years-war/agincourt.htm

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/11948049/The-Battle-of-Agincourt-why-should-we-remember-it.html

Scaysbrook Web site

After a lot of thought, I think its time to revamp the Scaysbrook.com web site, so I have started to pull all the current article into a new format, via Apples iWeb program, if any Scaysbrook out in the world wants to add any item or review, please send in via the link on the site

Scaysbrook a name to recon with

Are you a Scaysbrook, were a Scaysbrook, and want more information on your past, well this is the place to come, first I am a Scaysbrook, and I have collected just about every piece of history I can find and placed it on the Scaysbrook Website, we go back a long way, mostly ap farmers and laborers, and the name has changed slightly over the years, but I think it was always pronounced Scaysbrook, just spelt differently, from Scasbrook, Scarsbrook, or brick Visit the web site at www.scaysbrook.com and see where you come from, if your Australian or a New Zealander, there is extra interest for you as a Michael Scaysbrook sent to the colonies as a convict and his line still exists as one of the first settlers.

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