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Post by simmo123 on Oct 22, 2011 8:41:33 GMT
 Hi folks,one of our family members has been doing a bit of a check on our family history & has gone back to 1840 when my great great grandfather who is on record as being convicted at Gloucester Quarter sessions of a fairly minor offence by todays standards & he received a 10 year sentence & to be transported by the vessel "Asia" on 25th April 1840 to Van Diemens Land (Tasmania) to serve out the sentence,on the site the sentence was stated to be at the lower end Severity Scale, i have always suspected that there was an element of this in the family,( Ole Simmo did experience a few wild years as a young fella during my time roaming the world as a seaman in the British Merchant Navy)  however it was a lot different then than to the world as we know it now, we were taught to respect our elders/family etc which sadly is a bit lacking in todays world,although in saying that i am proud to say that all of our own family,kids grandkids etc plus most of our good friends & their families have all turned out to be a credit to us all so hopefully it will keep on being passed down long after we are gone.Ok thats enough of the doom & gloom but it was really interesting to find out these snippets of family history,it would be another topic to discuss other members experiences on this subject i am sure we have all had unusual happenings at some time in our lives.. Thats the latest from the Simmo's from down Baldvis way Kind regards to all
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Post by Tommydee on Oct 22, 2011 10:17:19 GMT
hi Simmo have you ever thought of taking up writing professionally i'm sure you make a god author Tommy
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Post by simmo123 on Oct 22, 2011 11:29:30 GMT
:)Hi Tommy,thanks for your interest,when i stop & think about things i consider myself to be very fortunate to still be able to recollect most of the memories from the early parts of my life,although coming from a large family who like most families who were bought up during the war years when just getting food on the table (remember the ration books & air raid shelters) was always going to be a struggle, with just having an average education i managed to pass my eleven plus & qualified to attend High School,but guess what!!! after two years & being a bit of a rebel i got politely asked to leave which put me back to the normal secondary school amongst all of my mates for which i was pretty happy about.Getting back to the convict saga i would never have believed that around about one hundred & thirty years after my great great grandfather was transported by ship as a convicted criminal to serve a ten year sentence for what is now regarded as a minor offence, to what was known in those days as Van Diemens land, i would with my good wife & two ankle biters (kids) in tow arrive to settle & make a new life for ourselves in Western Australia.It has been almost 44 years since we paid out our ten pound to get here & we sometimes look at our extended family, kids grandkids,son in laws daughter in laws & all of our life long friends & realise just how fortunate & blessed we are.Ole Simmo must be getting a bit sentimental or perhaps senile may be a better desciption in he's latter years but it is great to have all of those memories be they good or bad,life is good fo the Simmo's & i think that a lot of it reflects on realising just how lucky we are to be in reasonable health & live in a wonderful country.Well folks this is beginning to look suspiciously like another of Ole S
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Post by simmo123 on Oct 22, 2011 11:40:45 GMT
Hi again folks,just had a bit of a power surge that explains the sudden ending.best wishes to you Tommy & all
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Post by Tommydee on Oct 22, 2011 11:58:01 GMT
i also had notions to go to Australia back in the sixties i was married with one child at the time and had al the paperwork plus my £10 but i was told by someone i would be called up for Veitnam put me off Tommy
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Post by frankie on Oct 22, 2011 12:07:18 GMT
i also had notions to go to Australia back in the sixties i was married with one child at the time and had al the paperwork plus my £10 but i was told by someone i would be called up for Veitnam put me off Tommy Didn't have to go if you were pregnant, www.youtube.com/watch?v=3W7-ngmO_p8 |
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Post by weegeo on Oct 22, 2011 13:11:14 GMT
I`d love to visit Oz if only to see Rex Hunt lol unfortunately my travel days are passed
weegeo
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Post by frankie on Oct 22, 2011 13:53:27 GMT
Ole Rexy keeps a low profile now.I enjoyed his fishing show.Yibada, yibada.
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Post by doricvision on Oct 22, 2011 18:53:56 GMT
Simmo , as I have said many times before, your ramblings are a joy to read
Bigmike
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Post by simmo123 on Oct 23, 2011 11:11:03 GMT
Hi Tommy,i know what you mean about emigrating here in the sixties,in fact when we arrived the system for conscription was on a kind of lottery basis whereby all of those lads who's age qualified them for service in the Vietnam war were as follows. * * * * In 1964 compulsory National Service for 20-year-old males was introduced under the National Service Act (1964). The selection of conscripts was based on date of birth, and conscripts were obligated to give two years’ continuous full-time service, followed by a further three years on the active reserve list. The full-time service requirement was reduced to eighteen months in 1971.[17] * * * * The details of all of those who were selected were published in the daily newspaper..i myself missed out because of my age..strangely though, because while I was living in the UK up until 1968 by my serving in the Merchant Navy it absolved me from from also being called up for conscription in the UK,by the time i came out of it they had finished with conscription in the UK..just another piece of probably useless infomation from Ole Simmo who's idle ramblings seem to have no boundaries. ;D
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Post by Tommydee on Oct 23, 2011 11:25:11 GMT
hi Simmo at the time i didn't know the system they used i only know there was a chance i might have to go to Veitnam i've often wondered for years after how it would have turned out if my life would have been better or worse Tommy
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Post by frankie on Oct 23, 2011 12:15:29 GMT
hi Simmo at the time i didn't know the system they used i only know there was a chance i might have to go to Veitnam i've often wondered for years after how it would have turned out if my life would have been better or worse Tommy It included Aussie residence if you were a citizen or not. Simmo my birthday was the same as Normie Rowe,as I worked for the PMG it was front line signals. As Forrest Gump say's "thats all I gotta say about that " vietnam-war.commemoration.gov.au/conscription/birthday-ballot.php |
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Hi folks,one of our family members has been doing a bit of a check on our family history & has gone back to 1840 when my great great grandfather who is on record as being convicted at Gloucester Quarter sessions of a fairly minor offence by todays standards & he received a 10 year sentence & to be transported by the vessel "Asia" on 25th April 1840 to Van Diemens Land (Tasmania) to serve out the sentence,on the site the sentence was stated to be at the lower end Severity Scale, i have always suspected that there was an element of this in the family,( Ole Simmo did experience a few wild years as a young fella during my time roaming the world as a seaman in the British Merchant Navy) 
however it was a lot different then than to the world as we know it now, we were taught to respect our elders/family etc which sadly is a bit lacking in todays world,although in saying that i am proud to say that all of our own family,kids grandkids etc plus most of our good friends & their families have all turned out to be a credit to us all so hopefully it will keep on being passed down long after we are gone.Ok thats enough of the doom & gloom but it was really interesting to find out these snippets of family history,it would be another topic to discuss other members experiences on this subject i am sure we have all had unusual happenings at some time in our lives..
