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| + | William VYSE born abt 1770-1771 of location unknown was sentenced at Westminster on 11 September 1828 for stolen goods. He had two prior convictions and was sentenced to transportation for life. He arrived in Sydney Cove on the "Waterloo" on 9 July 1829 and was assigned to work for Berry and Wollstonecraft. This was a rural enterprise established in New South Wales in 1819. The main focus of the business was on a land grant of 10,000 acres (40 km²), growing to 40,000 acres (162 km²) in the Shoalhaven River area, where native cedar was felled for export, and other crops such as tobacco were grown both for sale in the colony of New South Wales and for export (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berry_and_Wollstonecraft). |
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VIZE Convicts in Australia
William VYSE born abt 1770-1771 of location unknown was sentenced at Westminster on 11 September 1828 for stolen goods. He had two prior convictions and was sentenced to transportation for life. He arrived in Sydney Cove on the "Waterloo" on 9 July 1829 and was assigned to work for Berry and Wollstonecraft. This was a rural enterprise established in New South Wales in 1819. The main focus of the business was on a land grant of 10,000 acres (40 km²), growing to 40,000 acres (162 km²) in the Shoalhaven River area, where native cedar was felled for export, and other crops such as tobacco were grown both for sale in the colony of New South Wales and for export (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berry_and_Wollstonecraft).