Matthew: I enjoyed your conversation with Danielled by your wife. Thanks. I might join the conversation excepting that it coincides with the departure of my wife and I for Melbourne (1,000km south from where we live) - revisiting places of our marriage (church etc) where we wed on December 15th, 1973. I have just purchased your book: Aftershock - and in the process uncovered another Matthew Green and his book Shadowlands. A Scottish cousin of mine did archaeological work as a university student at Skara Brae - in the 1990s subject of the first chapter in your namesake's book! If I can call in on your meeting, I shall - though I imagine it falling into the wee small hours here in eastern Australia. Jim (PS Daniel's family name has an intriguing resonance for me. When my reprieved from hanging great x 3 grand-mother - Susannah Holmes of Surlinghom - then beyond the city limits of Norwich with her as yet unweaned child via her as yet fellow prisoner (Norwich Castle County Gaol) unwed husband - Henry (KABLE/KEABLE/CABLE) - though not for want of seeking permission - was sent to join the First Fleet - part of which was outfitted in Plymouth - the Castle Gaol turnkey accompanying four woman and the infant was John Simpson. When the master of the "hulk" to which they were first delivered in Plymouth refused to accept the baby - his name not being on the Manifest he had - John Simpson, later in newspaper reports to be called "the humane turnkey" took the child and went up to London and lay in wait for Lord Sydney (Thomas Townshend) - explained the story - was told to collect the father - still in the Castle Gaol in Norwich - and deliver father and child to Plymouth - which he did. The story is told in the Folk Ballad Opera "The Transports" written/composed by Peter Bellamy in the early - then performed in the latter - 1970s. Matthew Crampton effected a revival of the Opera in 2018 - as part of a broader presentation The Transports: A Tale of Exile and Migration. my great x 3 grand-parents were part of five couples wed on Feb 10 , 1788 in Warrane (Sydney Cove) just 15 days from the arrival in Sydney Harbour of the First Fleet (11 ships) announcing the beginning of the invasion of the continent by the British - good for some - including British power - a beach-head into the Pacific - but not so for Australia's First Peoples. Greetings, Daniel... Jim
Matthew: I enjoyed your conversation with Danielled by your wife. Thanks. I might join the conversation excepting that it coincides with the departure of my wife and I for Melbourne (1,000km south from where we live) - revisiting places of our marriage (church etc) where we wed on December 15th, 1973. I have just purchased your book: Aftershock - and in the process uncovered another Matthew Green and his book Shadowlands. A Scottish cousin of mine did archaeological work as a university student at Skara Brae - in the 1990s subject of the first chapter in your namesake's book! If I can call in on your meeting, I shall - though I imagine it falling into the wee small hours here in eastern Australia. Jim (PS Daniel's family name has an intriguing resonance for me. When my reprieved from hanging great x 3 grand-mother - Susannah Holmes of Surlinghom - then beyond the city limits of Norwich with her as yet unweaned child via her as yet fellow prisoner (Norwich Castle County Gaol) unwed husband - Henry (KABLE/KEABLE/CABLE) - though not for want of seeking permission - was sent to join the First Fleet - part of which was outfitted in Plymouth - the Castle Gaol turnkey accompanying four woman and the infant was John Simpson. When the master of the "hulk" to which they were first delivered in Plymouth refused to accept the baby - his name not being on the Manifest he had - John Simpson, later in newspaper reports to be called "the humane turnkey" took the child and went up to London and lay in wait for Lord Sydney (Thomas Townshend) - explained the story - was told to collect the father - still in the Castle Gaol in Norwich - and deliver father and child to Plymouth - which he did. The story is told in the Folk Ballad Opera "The Transports" written/composed by Peter Bellamy in the early - then performed in the latter - 1970s. Matthew Crampton effected a revival of the Opera in 2018 - as part of a broader presentation The Transports: A Tale of Exile and Migration. my great x 3 grand-parents were part of five couples wed on Feb 10 , 1788 in Warrane (Sydney Cove) just 15 days from the arrival in Sydney Harbour of the First Fleet (11 ships) announcing the beginning of the invasion of the continent by the British - good for some - including British power - a beach-head into the Pacific - but not so for Australia's First Peoples. Greetings, Daniel... Jim